Question by : If you look at Scripture from a symbolic perspective, it does make more sense, doesn’t it ?
Example:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”
(You could say “Heaven” is non-physical reality. “Earth” is the physical universe.)

“And the earth was without form and void;”
(This is true. Before the Big Bang, physical reality( the universe )was without form and void.)

“and darkness was in the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”
(“Deep” is simply the deep void of whatever existed before the universe and “waters” is energy?)

“And God said, let there be light and there was light.”
(The Big Bang.)

“And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.”
(This would be the universe we can see: galaxies,etc., from the universe we can’t see: dark matter, dark energy?)

So you see, like Adam and Eve (as an allegory for the human condition), if you look at these passages as symbolism they make more sense.

I’m using my imagination of course, but so did the writers of Genesis. There is nothing wrong with imagination. There is a big difference between simply imagining things and using ones imagination to stumble upon insight.

Also, with great imagination can come great insight.
Science leads to science fiction but science fiction also leads to science.

Genesis even goes on to say that the waters brought forth life before there were other creatures on land. Then Man was created.

So what’s the problem with evolution then? What’s wrong with the Big Bang Theory?

The problems arise when you take ancient scriptures literally.
Taken literally, the earth is as old as the rest of the Cosmos and Genesis implies that the sun is not a star. This is nonsensical.

Personally, I do not believe that Jesus is God but objectively speaking, didn’t Jesus confound ancient prophecy by being a lover and not a fighter, so-to-speak? Was He really a direct descendant of Adam? Didn’t Jesus defy the rigid moral code of the Pharisees?

Also, I’ve always wondered: why do preachers take Genesis and other books literally, yet they interpret Revelation from a symbolic perspective?
That will be another much less wordy Open Question of mine.

Best answer:

Answer by Natalia Q
IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE IN ANY WAY.

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