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The literal sense of the author was "creation is the orderly act of a loving Creator God." What the modern reader often hears, however, is "The universe was made in six 24-hour days." This is as wrong-headed as taking me to mean I actually stood in line a million years or that my cardiac tissue has been torn in half or that Christ had delusions of being a grape plant.– Making Senses of Scripture
Related Authors: Mark Shea
Related Topics: bible, christian, christianity, figurative, figurative-language, hermeneutics, literal, religion, theology
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