EvC Forum: Verifying truth in science - is evolution faith-based?

Garret writes:

That's just silly. You say that since the 1600s "Christianity" has known and acknowledged that Genesis is a myth. Whom do you refer to when you say Christianity? No church I've ever gone to beleives this.

Mythology can be used to explain a greater truth, in the same way an allegory. There is nothing that says God can't reveal truths about Himself through mythology. As someone once said when asked about whether he believed it was an actual snake or not replied; "it doesn't matter whether it was a real snake or not, what matters is what the snake said".

I'd suggest that by trying to read the Bible as a science text or as a newspaper you might miss out on what it is really trying to tell you.

Here is a quote that I've used before on this forum written by CS Lewis.

Just as, on the factual side, a long preparation culminates in God’s becoming incarnate as Man, so, on the documentary side, the truth first appears in mythical form and then by a long process of condensing or focusing finally becomes incarnate as History. This involves the belief that Myth is ... a real though unfocused gleam of divine truth falling on human imagination. The Hebrews, like other peoples, had mythology: but as they were the chosen people so their mythology was the chosen mythology - the mythology chosen by God to be the vehicle of the earliest sacred truths, the first step in that process which ends in the New Testament where truth has become completely historical.

Edited by GDR, : No reason given.

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