How are we supposed to read Genesis, such as age of the Earth and the ark/flood?

How are we supposed to read Genesis, such as age of the Earth and the ark/flood?

I could also really use some prayers to remain faithful.

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Matthew 5:37
It's literal as God, and Jesus', form of communication is, yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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Watch this, OP. And God bless you on your spiritual journey.

Wrong. Anti-intellectual, and reason Christianity is disappearing.

Read it allegorically and stop being a modern heretic. The important information is that once mankind was innocent, but that it was in man's character not to remain so. We realized our own nakedness, frailty, mortality and potential for evil, and because of that, we are not the same creature as the other animals. The corollary to evil is sin, and knowledge of death.

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Just because it is not a fact, it doesn't mean it is not true.
Truth is not a synonym of fact.
The writers were inspired by the Holy Spirit to create the beautiful 100% truthful non-factual story of Adam and Even.

Source on that quote by origen?

100% a fact. I would say that probably anyone that reads it(especially in KJV) and still thinks it's a metaphor/parable probably isn't saved since Jesus said people of God hear God's words.

Can't find it, St Augustine of Hippo (saying the same thing) is going to be easier to find

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The Church Fathers, according to Fr. Seraphim Rose, believed that it is impossible for us to even imagine what the world was like before the fall, so trying to apply our post-fall understandings of time and nature to that period is pointless. As for the Flood, one viewpoints is that it literally did cover the entire planet and God simply protected things like plants from being destroyed or recreated them afterwards. Another is that it happened only in a certain area. From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

No Catholic commentator will repudiate an explanation merely for fear of having to admit a miracle; but no Catholic has a right to admit Biblical miracles which are not well attested either by Scripture or tradition. What is more, there are traces in the Biblical Flood story which favour a limited extent of the catastrophe: Noah could have known the geographical universality of the Deluge only by revelation; still the Biblical account appears to have been written by an eye-witness. If the Flood had been universal, the water would have had to fall from the height of the mountains in India to the level of those in Armenia on which the ark rested, i.e. about 11,500 feet, within the space of a few days. The fact that the dove is said to have found "the waters . . . upon the whole earth", and that Noah "saw that the face of the earth was dried", leaves the impression that the inspired writer uses the word "earth" in the restricted sense of "land". Attention has been drawn also to the "bough of an olive tree, with green leaves" carried by the dove in her mouth on her second return to the ark.
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My problem with this explanation is that it doesn't explain why native tribes from Australia, Hawaii, and the Americas all had stories about a universal flood long before they came into contact with anyone from the World Island. You could argue that they simply had undocumented encounters with them, but why would the flood story be the only thing they retain instead of the more important and central tenants of the varioius religions and cultures that speak of the Flood?

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You dropped this

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Ima have to pick up this book I've heard it makes a good traditional case for genesis. Which, is good cause if genesis is unhistorical then, it means that parts of the bible are faulty, that something is off to a degree. (If there's no adam, then why is there a last?) But im open to the idea cause it seems like everyone and there mother is under the impression, of that* The world has always been this way, it's never been under different metaphysical principles, different laws, a different state of being etc, the world has always functioned this way end of story* But that's not even true under the conventional explanation. Everyone's gone full pagan where there is no creation, or no revealed creation. And also as you mentioned in your post, the stories from different pagan view points of kinda saying it seemed like there was a flood gives massive credibility to the biblical narrative that just gets shoe horned away.

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This is your brain on Ameriprot-theism.

How do you suppose we should interpret scripture then? And how did you come to your conclusion as no prophecy of scripture is of a private interpretation 2 peter 1:20. I thought that because Jesus says let our yea be yea and our nay be nay that we are to mean exactly what we say. Just like Jesus means exactly what He said as He is no hypocrite.

Gee that's nice, glad you imitate Christ's gentility so plainly for all to see, but I will endeavour to deliver a coherent argument as to why you are wrong:

Firstly, enough about Romans 6:6! Not everything is yea or nay; what do you suppose Matthew 7:16 "by their fruit you will know them" means? I hope you don't suppose our Lord meant for us to carry around apples, so that we may inspect one another's fruits?

You are being a fedora in reverse; the fedora says everything in the Bible is supposed to be literal, but it is wrong, therefore I am right. You on the other hand are saying, the Bible is to be always taken literally, therefore dinosaur bones exist to tempt the faithful. Your premise is exactly that of the atheist, therefore I distrust it, for the fruit thereof is poison (this is the true meaning of Matthew 7:16).

PRIVATE interpretation, would be had I consulted no one to form my opinions. In fact you are the one engaging in private interpretation, because you didn't consult Origen, St Augustine, or anyone of importance to form your doctrine. That rule you cited does not prohibit interpretation beyond the literal, it prohibits interpreting things without ever exposing your interpretations to scrutiny by others, or consulting the knowledge and opinions of the Church Fathers. You are essentially denying my right to publicly interpret scripture by misusing that verse (which I am presently engaged in doing on this anonymous image board).

For instance, what if I quoted you Ecclesiastes 12:8, saying life is meaningless? Am I right? NO, saying life is meaningless is imbecilic even when atheists do it, unfortunately for them, they really do believe so however.

May I humbly suggest, Fortunatianus' Commentaries on the Gospel. He is even more liberally allegorical and he was writing in the 4th century! Clearly then, what you are saying has nothing to do with Tradition or the Scriptures, absolutely nothing.

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It is quite literally talking about prophets in context. The fruit itself being the fruit of the Spirit in galatians 5:22.

Also for clarification, in matthew 7:15-20 when it talks about knowing them by their fruits, of the Spirit in galatians 5:22 that is, you need to clarify what a prophet is as spoken of in revelation 19:10
Anyone claiming to be testifying of Jesus, is claiming to be speaking by the spirit of prophecy. Hence by their fruits ye shall know them is quite literal.

Who do you think wrote Genesis?

Doesn't matter as long as it gives glory to God and is inspired by God see 1 corinthians 1:31
and 2 timothy 3:16
Scripture is inspired by God, whether moses himself wrote it down or some translator claiming to be speaking by the spirit of prophecy some 6000 years later did so is irrelevant. As God gets the glory if it is His fruit as spoken of in matthew 12:33

I'm done with this, KJV

What does Ecclesiastes 12:8 say in Greek? ματαιότης which means meaningless/futile.

The word vain, means exactly the same thing.

It's even worse for your argument


Thus it is not even about our interpretation, it is saying that no prophet just made it up himself. Indeed the prophet spoke as the Holy Spirit commanded.

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Finally 2 Timothy 3:16, another verse that pleads with us that we may not take everything literally like simpletons.

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Origen recanted

no you

How did you come to this conclusion? All 2 timothy 3:16 talks about is the usage of scripture for "doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" and that all scripture is inspired by God. What does that have to do with interpreting the scripture?

Secound Council of Constantinople declared him anathema

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You are catching on now. That's why I quoted revelation 19:8, as all claiming to testify of Jesus are claiming to speak by the spirit of prophecy. Thus are they claiming to be speaking by the will of God, but God cannot lie as said in titus 1:2. So by their fruits ye shall know them. So don't believe me, but rather believe what God says in the scripture, as I am just thy fellowservant.

Should be

Might as well be a fedora, to be honest.

For concept of preexistence of souls and alleged teaching about reincarnation

Exactly, it says inspired by God, not written by God. Do you read the warranty when you purchase a car user?

The Bible is not inerrant, it was written by people, by collecting and recording ORAL TRADITION.

Thank you

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Did you read matthew 12:33? Either make the tree good and his fruit good; or make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by his fruits. If these prophets were of God, then their fruit would be good such as God not being able to lie in titus 1:2 or being perfect in ephesians 4:13.
What does inerrant mean? Are you saying God can lie and is not perfect? Or that His fruit could lie or not be perfect?

While the Orthodox church doesn't take a firm stand on evolution, don't they state that Adam and Eve literally existed and that the fall literally happened? How do you reconcile that with an allegorical take on Genesis?

You seem to be under this vain delusion that God = the writings in the Bible.

The writings in the Bible are the stories of men who strove with God, and the Son of God, written to be accurate as far as the recollection of men allows. It encompasses a ton of LITERARY GENRES and spans a period of history nearly 2,000 YEARS.

God never lied, but people forgot as centuries wore on. Their words are still accurate as to the Spirit, because they were divinely inspired, but you have to do more legwork than just assuming that they never spoke in parables.

I'm sure there's some pagan somewhere saying that the Iliad is the literal word of Zeus.

Oh, they're just my memes, didn't know that

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Oh well I'm not sure that's the official Orthodox stance anyway - just read it somewhere.

You are deliberately trying to violate basic rules of interpretation and your case is damned from the beginning. Good Day, you are wasting my time and yours.

not being a heretic*

OP, just watch this and your question will be answered: bitchute.com/video/LDbRjMXb1nlv/

I tend to think that the flood was global in extent but local in that high mountaintops weren't submerged.

Pic related. Take a look at that Meltwater Pulse 1A. The trendline has been drawn to slope a little bit, but the data points fit a faster change. Then remember all the pessimistic predictions about global warming and rising sea levels and their effects. Advanced civilizations tend to build a lot of important things at coasts, not far above the sea level.

A theory I find plausible is that right when the latest ice age was ending anyway, a comet hit the North American ice sheet, vaporizing huge amounts of water, which then condensed and rained down while the sea level rose quickly from all the rain everywhere. There could also have been tsunamis from comet fragments that hit open sea. Various primitive peoples survived around the world, but the evil advanced antediluvian civilization was wiped out and much of it ended up permanently underwater when the flood never receded back all the way.

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We say that Adam and Eve existed (and even fedoras have to agree, every species have their ancestors) and we say that they were made in Image and likeness of God. Though there are certain things that are taken allegorically. For example tree of life is viewed as the Love of God in Orthodoxy. Fall is about disobedience. Same when talking about order of creation: Some viewed days as steps or epochs and some as literal days. Same regarding stance on evolution, which some say that it is true or acceptable (though regarding animals mostly)
But general concepts are that:
God created the world
Adam and Eve existed
Humans are supreme creation made in image and likeness of God
Fall of Mankind is about disobedience and rebellion against God
Well, its sort of what this guy says . And as I watched his videos, he may be most "Orthodox Catholic" in my humble opinion.

I wonder why the mods didn't ban you for cursing, that is wishing evil upon due to the definition in 2 samuel 16:5-14, me?

Besides the Bible says they were. The mountains weren't as large then because one of the psalms say that the mountains and valleys were formed during the flood but at least it covered the mountains that existed at the start

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

The Bible says the genesis 7 flood's mountains were submerged. But that doesn't mean the ezekiel 31:15 flood neccessarily submerged the mountains, even if it destroyed them.
Does it say which flood and which psalm are you talking about?

Pretty sure it's this
Psalm 104
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

I realize that this doesn't directly answer OP's question nor am I directly referencing him with the following, but his question made me think how strange it is when people gloss over all the other miracles that were performed in the Gospel and get tripped up on these ones. It just seems that many believers struggle with these in particular even when they accept all the others. "Jesus turned water into wine, cured the blind, and even conquered death itself, but the supreme act of creation must be an allegory… surely, right?"

I don't think we're called to have an idea of these things either way. A lot of Christians like to smuggle in as much doctrinal confusion as possible because they are moved by spirit of pride to feel as if they ought to know as much as possible and then this demonic spirit compels them to use these doctrinal issues to exclude as many from salvation as possible. Only the Orthodox church, the true church says that salvation is not simply granted or denied on the basis of these things.

The planet is 6300 years old

The Bible doesn't teach that the world was created in 6 literal days. That is a teaching by a heretical sect called Fundamentalist who infiltrated all other sects and inserted this blasphemous doctrine.

In both the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures, the word “day” (Heb., yohm; Gr., he·mera) is used in a literal and in a figurative or even symbolic sense. Sometimes the word “day” is used to indicate a measure of distance, as in the expressions “a day’s journey” and “a sabbath day’s journey.”—Nu 11:31; Ac 1:12; The term “day(s)” is also used with reference to a time period contemporaneous with a particular person, as for example, “the days of Noah” and “the days of Lot.”—Lu 17:26-30; Isa 1:1.

This flexible use of the word “day” to express units of time of varying length is clearly evident in the Genesis account of creation. Therein is set forth a week of six creative days followed by a seventh day of rest. The week assigned for observance by the Jews under the Law covenant given them by God was a miniature copy of that creative week. (Ex 20:8-11) The seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on. At Hebrews 4:1-10 the apostle Paul indicated that God’s rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began.

The entire period of the six time units or creative “days” dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all-embracing “day."


According to the Bible, the word day is used liberally to mean stages of time of significance not adhere to a strict interpretation of 24 hrs.

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I'll stick with the bible

Of course the Genesis (Noah's) flood.

My point was that worldwide flooding within plausible human cultural memory is actually accepted consensus geology, that it is entirely possible by science for part of that flooding to have been catastrophic with heavy rains for for days and days, and that ancient advanced civilization could entirely realistically have been destroyed by such a flood. I also think that God prefers to work in such ways.


Fifteen cubits is only around 7.5 meters.


I think that is actually describing the ordinary hydrological cycle, with a side note relating to how the rise of the waters associated with the end of the ice age is now over.

So? Does water not get affected by gravity until it's 7.6 meters?

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You used the word "mountains". You can't both take your translation of the Bible 100% literally and believe that the mountains were covered, because if you believe that "mountains" can refer to things that are 7.4 meters or less, you are no longer being 100% literal.

So maybe you should find another way to be 100% literal. For example mountains being covered does not = all the mountains were submerged under risen sea levels from a global flood.

An important point: "Eretz" in Hebrew can mean both "earth" and "land". This is important to keep in mind when considering the extent of the flood.


The Gospel of John was written in Greek. Genesis was written in Hebrew. The two languages are not at all the same.

I never said that. It's the waters were 7.5 meters above the highest mountain, not the highest mountain was 7.5 meters

You're ignoring the simple truth. At Hebrews 4:1-10 the last day was mentioned as continuing by Paul 4 thousand years later. Genesis 2:4 sums up all 6 creative days into ONE DAY. The days are not literal, they are metaphorical for stages of time of significant things happening. Nobody knows exactly how long the process of creation took, but we do know it wasn't 6 human days.

Dude it literally says the evening and the morning was the ___ day, stop being a heretic.

Why did you quote Genesis 2:4 from the New World translation, of the Jehovah's false witnesses?

Try reading the word of God sometime. Every last word is there for a reason. God has spoken thus and God has said that he shall preserve it, every single last word, and what he says will be done. Doubters of this are utterly shameless in your denial.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

(DARBY)These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens

ASV - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.,

YLT - These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

Doesn't matter. Hebrews 4:1-10 states that the 7th day was still continuing 4 thousand years later down to Paul's day. Gen 2:4 sums up all 6 days into one day. Those days are not literal. Neither is "morning" and "evening" literal.

That's not what I asked. I asked why is the NWT your go-to translation?

It's one of the easiest to understand and has it's own cross-reference section with every Bible verse in the Bible. It allows quick immediate cross reference with other verses while the other Bibles don't.

A local flood as described in the bible is more incredible than a global flood. What would that even look like? An enormous viscous mound of water so high it engulfed the mountains of Ararat and persisted on the earth for nearly half a year with Noah's ark floating on top?

No it doesn't, read it again
This gives specific exclusion to each thing being made in a day.
Now this you have a valid point on, but let's read it just to be sure, hebrews 4:1-11
Now here it recognizing that the "works" "were finished from the foundation of the world", works such as the creation in genesis 1.
God has already entered into that rest of the seventh day. It is us Christians who have not entered into that rest/seventh day it speaks of. 2 peter 3:8
This is literally the only verse in the Bible that could justify a literal seven day creation being seven thousand years. But God has already entered into that rest and is outside of time. So that seventh day surely would also be with Him in heaven, which is to say we don't enter that rest until revelation 19:7-9.

The Bible mentions some of the waters came from the deep genesis 8:2. The deep/"face of the waters" is below where God is in genesis 1:2. God divides the deep's waters in genesis 1:6-8 followed by placing the sun and the moon and the stars in the dividing of the waters, the firmament/Heaven/outer space genesis 1:14-15. Now you might be confused, if you read through the genesis 1 account and stumble upon genesis 1:9
Now "heaven" in the uncapitilized form could be reffering to two things, where God is in genesis 1:1-2 above the waters, or the sky/fowl of the heaven/birds of the air in genesis 7:23. It is likely that God took the waters that were under the sky and gathered them into one place, but left the waters above outerspace/Heaven/firmament where they were, the deep.

Which would explain where all the extra water for the two global floods of genesis 7 and ezekiel 31:15 came from, and went away to. It went beyond the firmament inbetween where God is, heaven, and outer space/Heaven/firmament.

The reason I go through all this explanation to answer your question is because, the universe/space/firmament is massive so we are told by (((them))). So that's a huge amount of water that could be up there that would have totally engulf the earth. The genesis 7 flood was a "rain" genesis 7:12. So it wasn't just this massive dumping of water, but a slow proccess of rain. The ezekiel 31:15 flood was a "floods" plural. Implying there was more then one "rain" going on at that time. Which would explain how "the earth was without form and void" in genesis 1:2. All of the quotes are KJV or this makes no sense.

You just made that up right on the spot. You intentionally ignored:


The entire creation period is summed up into ONE DAY. Even though they were all created in stages. You literally ignored your own context.


This he did immediately in Gen 2:1-4


Thus when Paul mentioned for Christians to enter into God's rest was 4 thousand years later!! Besides Gen 2:4, Heb 4:1-11 is proof the days were not literal human 12 nor 24 hours. Only stages of time.

2 Pet 3:8 is irrelevant to this conversation because that's ANOTHER USE of the word day and the length of time this "day" is used. This "day" has no relevance to the creation days with the exception that it proves the concept of "day" is not always literal 24 hours in the Bible.


This you just made up on the spot. No, that rest "day" is not outside of time because Paul mentioned it as CONTINUING down to his day. You keep ignoring the context of everything to push your Young Earth Creation Doctrine but that is not Biblical.

“The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each.” - As A Religious Encyclopaedia (Vol. I, p. 613)Edited by P. Schaff, 1894.

“Days of God are intended, with Him a thousand years are but as a day when that is past, Ps. 90:4 . . . The days of creation are, according to the meaning of Holy Scripture itself, not days of four and twenty hours, but aeons . . . For this earthly and human measurement of time cannot apply to the first three days.” - New Commentary on Genesis by Delitzsch, Franz, 1813-1890.

“A day; it is frequently put for time in general, or for a long time; a whole period under consideration . . . Day is also put for a particular season or time when any extraordinary event happens.” - (Old Testament Word Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1978, W. Wilson, p. 109)

Have you never read hebrews 9:26, revelation 20:10,14-15, john 8:44, isaiah 14, revelation 11:8, and ezekiel 31? There was a literal seven day formation/making of the earth and the earth itself could be a undefined age due to the gap between genesis 1:1 and 1:2 due to ezekiel 31's reference to the assaryian/pharoah which could be in reference to matthew 4:8-10's relevance to revelation 11:8.
There is an possibly old/undefined age earth and heaven and a literal seven day formation/making of the rest of creation that aren't angels.

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It turns out that that passage was not even included in the older version of the Gospel of Mark. Which originally ended in 16:8. So I want to say that everyone who takes the bible literally is making a yuge mistake. This is a God of the living, as Jesus Christ proved. And the Church is the living body. So stop being like muslims.

The absolute state of biblical scholars

There is a reason 1 corinthians 1:19-25 is written to deride "scribes" which is a synonym for scholar
Also what does and have to do with this thread? This thread is about creation.

Interesting fact is that if you add up all the verses in Mark you get 678. If you have one of the crappy new versions it says the last 12 verses are not real scripture then you get 666 verses in a book called Mark

I explained that in that very same post you quoted and in this one.>>647338

Hugh Ross is pretty good on this from a scientific perspective, if you have the time for it.

Right. Notice it says, "in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens," and what follows is the events of "the generations of the heavens and of the earth." That does not imply all of the events happened in the day that the earth and the heavens were made, it means that's what followed from this.

Similarly, Genesis 5:1 starts off by saying


And Genesis 5 covers a much longer period than the one day, it covers the whole lifespan of Adam all the way down to Noah. It merely starts with that first day and goes from there, it isn't saying all these things happened in that one day. It isn't saying Seth, etc were all born in the day that God created man; that day is just the start of the generations of these things. Likewise, the generations of the heavens and of the earth began on the day they were made, which specifically is the First day.

He doesn't really. Hebrews 4 is saying God entered into rest on the Seventh day after having done the works and draws the parallel to us entering into rest on a certain day but not before then. It's saying there exists, somewhere in time, a limit for us which can be compared to that final day of rest, not that the seventh day is some kind of epoch that we have entered. End of God's works was that seventh day, for us there is a day of rest similar to that yet to come.


Also, Exodus 20:11 is the only verse you need to dispense with day-age teaching.

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Kent Hovind seven creation seminar videos

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Also interesting thing that when Jesus comes back he will split the mount of olives in half and the mount of olives is on a fault line

Zechariah 14:4
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

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It's important to remember that your soul is not in danger of going to hell if you do or don't believe in a flat earth, young earth, evolution, etc. Maybe those things are true, maybe they're not, we'll find out some day when all is revealed.

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OP, you need to keep your focus on Jesus Christ. First of all, do you believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Sure, you may claim you believe, but do you really believe in the resurrection or do you take it at face-value like some fable? Take some time to really think about this and how your belief on this particular topic impacts your faith. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is currently alive? What do you think Jesus' beliefs were when it came to the Book of Genesis and Scripture in general? These are important questions that you need to ask yourself, and yes I will pray for your faith but remember that faith without works is dead. Seek God.

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I guess we should start by reading genesis as the author of it intended it to be read. The creation of the world and Noah's ark are reminiscent of creation myths and flood stories in other cultures, I think the author, clearly a Jew, intended to create a theologically sound version of these stories, so the degree to which these stories are historical should be taken in light of that.

The flood took place in the Tarim Basin in China. It was local.

The Bible is only focused on the history of the Adamic race up until the arrival of Jesus. It's only important that God is the beginning of everything so the question on the actual and exact age of the earth/galaxy/universe is pointless. Genesis is very easy to understand for the most part but people shouldn't get too hooked on the math. Whether it's six literal days or six thousand years or six million years nobody can tell unless we have a time machine.

It's a cliche to say but the moral of the stories is more important than trying to prove their exact scientific modeling.

For alot of God's most important teachings, he speaks in allegory/poetry/metaphor.

I usually start from the beginning

'In the Beginning…': A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall

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Sure to be full of falsehood. You're better off just reading Genesis yourself than let a middleman intervene and corrupt the word of God.

Found the protestant

Daily reminder that the Bible is the words of men, inspired though they are.

John 12:48
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

The story of the flood was not the word of God, and in the context of that story Jesus was not referring to the bible. Also, I can assure you, he did not even care about to talk about the topic, to quote him on the issue "_______________" ____0:0. Though I am only quoting the KJV.

Both allegorical and literal.
God created everything, God created humanity, humanity sinned and its nature was damaged, Cain killed Abel, etc…
The allegorical part is because certain things also had a symbolic meaning. Cain and Abel for example probably also represents agricultural people and nomadic people.
Also Adam and Eve may represent more than two people, possibly the original humanity and not just themselves. What is important is that the first humans had a sinless nature but they fell into sin.

The age of the patriarchs is a useless enigma.
I say this because not only the numbers are different in the different version of the Bible (Peshitta following his own way and Septuagint adding 100 years to the age of every patriarch).
Hundreds of people tried to calculate the age of the Earth and EVERY SINGLE one of them had a different answer. We simply can't know.

Yes, I'm sure the entire Church has just been completely and totally wrong for 2000 years.

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Oh by the way.
We are still living in the last day of creation, where God rest.
Days are periods of time, not 24h.