24 human hours!
This is when the can of worms begins to open.
When man and science can fill in the missing gaps I might be persuaded to believe otherwise - but the scales tip significantly towards a literal meaning based on the research that I have done.
Why are you so emphatic about that? Does it really matter?
Check out my links elsewhere in this post to the Jordan Peterson Bible Lecture Series. He uses evolutionary biology to bring atheists out of their intellectual morass. They CAN find meaning in the bible, and the DON'T have to abandon evolution. They can start to see biological evolution as a creative instrument, instead of as what they always thought it was - an unbridgeable chasm between science and religion.
It does matter - if not for us then certainly for future generations. They will have to live through the reign of the antichrist while we will most likely be dead. Most christians are setting their kids up for a future fall.
I will go back and look at your other comments but I am busy for a little bit and the comments are flowing thick and fast (which is good) - but now is not the right time for me to carefully consider and reply to your comments.
I'll be back a little later.
Good stuff, bro! See you after I've mowed my lawn :)
Take some time on Sunday to listen to Dr. David Jeremiah. He knows exactly what the Bible says.
And you need to listen to Dr. Scott Hahn. I would say the same thing about him. I'll listen to some Jeremiah if you listen to some Hahn.
Hahn doesn't have a clue.
because he converted to Catholicism from evangelical protestantism?
It sounds like Hahn's "apostacy" from protestantism is a touchy subject for you. Is it? What do you really know about Hahn's work that you can say he doesn't have a clue?
You do not understand the meaning of the Bible. I suggest you read it over and over and over until you get it. You are "all over the map" as they say and it is taking you nowhere fast.
Finding "meaning" in the Bible means NOTHING unless you understand it and LIVE it.
You sure are able to read a lot into what I know and don't know about the Bible. What is your Bible tradition? Everyone has one. Tradition is not a bad thing. It is the democracy of the dead. I respect those who came before me, and I am under no illusion that I can just pick up an ENGLISH translation of the bible and interpret everything for myself. It is not a magic book.
It is a book (collection of books) which has been preserved and lovingly handed down to us by the Church. Why should I not care what others in the tradition of the Church have said about the books?
Like I said, you are "all over the map."
It's called discernment.
What is the main point of the Bible?
2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.