I keep saying it - there are as many Christian sects as there are Christians. Each one makes up his or her own version.
An eyewitness account? Where would that eye have been to witness the creation of everything? It didn't exist until after it (at least) was created. Most pure unadulterated bullshit is gospel compared to the Bible.
Aiza Wrote:I don't know about "staged creation" but it's always been obvious that the 2 creation stories in Genesis cannot be eyewitness accounts just by definition.The OT was 4 separate "Bibles", written by 4 different groups of people ("the Jews" was never a single coherent group) with 4 different stories. Gen 1 and Gen 2 are the only remaining remnants in current theology. (There were different Abraham/Isaac stories too - in one, God never told Abraham to bring Isaac, in one Abraham killed Isaac and we never heard of him again. The current story wasn't in any of the originals.)
An eyewitness account? Where would that eye have been to witness the creation of everything? It didn't exist until after it (at least) was created. Most pure unadulterated bullshit is gospel compared to the Bible.