Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: x7mx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is the Holy Bible 100% correct?? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 03:41:33 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [tlijy@cc.curtin.edu.au asked about the BIble. It seems to him that that according to scientific observations, the universe was not created as described in the Bible. A friend of his, who believes the Bible is correct, responded to this that the Bible is not a scientific book. He was interested in comments on this. --clh] The classic "7 days of creation" dilemma is far from being the only problem you must have encountered: why did you just mention this? If it was just the creation story then the answer would be trivial: in those days a "day" is not defined by a 24 hour period but rather, by sunrises and sunsets. Since such a "day" did not exist for the first 3 "days" it is up to our imagination to guess how long such a day is. Read as a whole, however, the book of Genesis certainly does not lend itself to literal interpretations. Silly questions pop up such as who Cain and Abel married. It certainly is no laughing matter for those who insist on using the Bible as a scientific text. I do not think, however, that Christians differ much on what the passages were trying to say. My opinion: don't take things literally, the Bible is not wrong in what it intends to communicate. Chris