joeysei

Genesis is poetic, yet is also exact in it's account of history, it is pure and reliable. That is a statement I make in faith. I can understand how some would say they can't believe it is literal 24 hour days, but it is because they want to fit supernatural in a "box" of natural "fallen" understanding. Moses wrote Genesis, a guy like you and me, who saw unburnt burning bushes, parted the water at God's word, followed clouds by sheer obedience and so many other things, (also see Hebrews 11). I BELIEVE IT IS DANGEROUS to try to pick and choose parts of the bible as true and/or literal while the the other parts are just poetic or simply metaphoric.... As God told Job, "Where were you when I...", and list a host of things from creations' events. Genesis is the perfect evangelistic companion to the Gospel and epistles. Either the whole bible is absolute truth, or its just a book of no power. Jesus is Creator God as well as Savior and Lord, and the Bible (including Genesis) is an anvil that has worn out many hammers...

being new here, this is something i would like to do as well...

Bad things are the product of Adams and Eves decision to disobey, God never intended bad things to happen,