(March 14, 2018 at 2:02 pm)alpha male Wrote: Matt 19
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Jesus notes that man was created at the beginning - not after billions of years.
Matt 24
38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Jesus refers to the flood as a historical event.
Who cares? We're not the ones who think Jesus was god-on-Earth or that every utterance attributed to him is Divine Truth. He was a man of a particular time and place, with many of the same cultural biases and limitations of understanding that one would expect of such a person.
It's perfectly understandable that Jesus and his contemporaries might read Genesis as providing solid historical information about "the beginning". It's less forgivable when 21st Century people continue to parrot such things as anything other than mythical/poetic speculation from the late-Bronze or Iron Age.
