RE: The book of Genesis is poetic?
February 1, 2015 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2015 at 10:47 am by watchamadoodle.)
According to this table from Pew Forum only 46% of US Protestants and 23% of US Catholics view the Bible as the "Word of God to be taken literally, word for word".
http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/table-...dition.pdf
Many Christians (like Catholics?) believe in biblical inerrancy, but they don't mean the Bible is history. They mean the Bible does not teach heresies, etc. They don't mean it is all factual. They mean it has good teachings. Parts of the Bible are taken as factual (e.g. the resurrection of Jesus, etc.)
Probably if we could poll Christians from before the 1800s it would be nearly 100% taking the Bible as literal history.
http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/table-...dition.pdf
Many Christians (like Catholics?) believe in biblical inerrancy, but they don't mean the Bible is history. They mean the Bible does not teach heresies, etc. They don't mean it is all factual. They mean it has good teachings. Parts of the Bible are taken as factual (e.g. the resurrection of Jesus, etc.)
Probably if we could poll Christians from before the 1800s it would be nearly 100% taking the Bible as literal history.
