(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.
I appreciate your trying but I'm not seeing how any of this explicitly constitutes a warrant from God to read the bible literally. Both of the parts I bolded can be taken either allegorically or literally, just as any piece of writing can depending on the intent of the writer. You see them as evidence of explicit instruction because you already assume that is the way to read the bible. Do you have any quotes that directly address the issue of how one is to read the bible?
