Now look, I can understand if you want to try to do some Universalist thing where you admit the Bible may not be 100% accurate and accept that ultimately the only higher power in the universe is the collection of physical and chemical principles that govern the nature of all matter, but don't go giving me that crap of "the Bible is 100% accurate and the universe was formed in exactly one human week" nonsense.
In the 19th century Americans started moving west and three institutions went with them. There was vaudeville, traveling entertainment. There was lyceum, traveling education and culture. And there was the itinerant preacher, offering a new style of preaching called "hell fire and brim stone". It was very entertaining, only loosely based on scripture, and pastors didn't even try to compete. Instead they switched to preaching public morality and philosophy. Eventually an entire generation grew up not knowing the first thing about the religion they claimed to believe. That is why most Christian churches don't teach doctrines, and most members don't know what they are supposed to believe.
The bible says in plain English "In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth." No six days, it was in the beginning. Believers and non-believers alike simply have not read the story. Both sides in this argument make up nonsense because they either misread the story or let somebody else tell them what it said. It might interest you to know that there were eye witnesses to what we mistakenly call creation. They recorded their observations as best they could, carving some records into stones and passing verbal accounts from one generation to the next. It has taken a very long time to interpret these records because they don't describe anything we have seen. For example the legend of the dragon is carved into rocks all over the world, but it is only recently that anybody has noticed a natural effect that fits that description. This is a long book because it tries to cover everything completely.
http://saturniancosmology.org/
I have never heard that from anyone.
Perhaps the days of God were longer than man, and it wasn't one week, on the 7th day he rested.
I know our most common translations of the bible aren't accurate to the original text and unfortunately I cannot read Hebrew or Ancient Greek.
I certainly don't know but I do know anyone who believes in god, knows that with Him, all things are possible.
The Bible could simply never include all the details, it had to be put in words we would understand. If we had all the details of God's creation, it would be overwhelming. billions of pages probably and look how many different Christian denominations there are right now, imagine how divided we'd be if there were only a few more pages.
Who says that?? I've never heard that argument.
