(January 17, 2016 at 1:00 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 12:45 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Why not just say god created everything? Why give an exact time frame and day by day breakdown of creation if it wasn't true?
I don't know, you'd have to ask the people who wrote it. Perhaps just for the sake of telling a story rather than just saying "God created everything. The end." After all, that was the style of writing back then. A lot of poetry, allegory, metaphor, figurative speech, etc. Yes, the Old Testament was inspired by God but it wasn't written by God. It was written by men from thousands of years ago.
Its not even a metaphor though, it is a specific account of creation, It says god did this on this day there is no metaphor involved. This approach to reading the bible is dishonest, because instead of just admitting that there are glaring errors in the bible the religions have decided just to call them metaphor.
If it was written by man thousands of years ago and your going to blame the errors on their ignorance how can you believe anything written bible?
