Well, this is probably a mistake but as a Christian, here is how I see it. I see absolutely nothing in Genesis or Exodus to be taken literally. Period. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Zero.
1. God created everything. He made everything perfect, but mankind messed it up by disobeying God. That is literal.
GOD changed the state of the Primordial Egg some tens of Billions of years ago. He determined the rules and forces that would govern the universe including the physical laws, evolution and natural selection. Everything we see today evolved from that initial action.
There was never a Garden of Eden, an Adam and Eve, or the Fall.
2. There WAS a world-wide flood. Evidence actually helps support this, both historically and scientifically. (That is, as long as you don't close your ears to hear any of it and dismiss it as fairy tale lol) If you need me to do so, I will get all my sources of information back out and prensent my case, but this isn't the right thread.
There was never a world wide flood or Noah, no ark, no animals two by two or seven by seven.
3. God is perfect.
GOD is complete.
4. There was NO death before the fall. Eden was paradise, it was perfect. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, they introduced death into a perfect world and thus we have to deal with it today.
Since there was never a Garden of Eden or Fall, the issue is moot. But even if you accepted the description of Eden it would not have been perfect and there would have been death. Least that is what Genesis says.
5. Satan is out to deceive you and make you fall by twisting an distorting words that God said. He is also a master of diguise who can take different forms.
Yup. He can be seen in the guise of Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Kent Hovind, Gene Scott, ...
6. God cares for us and set up his plan for our redemption so we could spend eternity with him and now ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is accept his gift! Seems to good to be true doesn't it?? He pays for us and we get to spend eternity in Heaven! WELL it is true.
Yup. Christ died for all, atheist and theist, Christian and Jew, Hindu and Muslem, those who profess the beliefs and those who deny them. All he asks is that you Love others as you love yourself.
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