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How do those who understand Noah's Flood to be a global flood explain what the carnivorous animals ate after disembarking?
How do those who understand Noah's Flood to be a global flood explain what the carnivorous animals ate after disembarking, if there were only 2 of all the other species left? Eating 1 would stop those ...
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Besides Augustine and Origen, did any church fathers reject a literal interpretation of Genesis 1-2:4?
Augustine allegorically interpreted the first creation account in Genesis 1 - 2:4 but seems to have literally interpreted the second creation account in Genesis 2:5-3:24. Origen allegorically ...
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How do those who hold to a literal interpretation of the flood account respond to the criticism that Noah building the ark would be unfeasible?
In Longman and Walton's book The Lost World of the Flood (2018) they argue that the account of Noah's flood in the book of Genesis, although based on an historical event, employs rhetorical devices ...
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To what extent do those who hold to a 'literal' account of Genesis 1-11, such as YECs, hold there are symbolic elements in Genesis 1-3?
YECs (Young Earth Creationists) often hold their views because of a 'literal' view of Genesis, and in particular the use of 'day' in the Genesis creation account.
Are there aspects of Genesis that '...
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How is the earth soon after God turn the light on according to the literalist / YEC?
Genesis 1:2 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Is the other half of earth dark?
My understanding is that when the light was created, then (logically) the other half of the ...
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To the YEC, did God make a single male/female pair of each kind of animal?
Genesis 1:21-22
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing
with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to
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How do proponents of Original Sin support a strictly literal interpretation of Genesis
Many modern theologians who adhere to the doctrine of original sin are often proponents of the claim that Genesis is to be interpreted strictly literally (most strictly as a 7 day creation of a young ...
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Do Lutherans believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis?
Do Lutherans believe that the story of Adam and Eve and all the book of Genesis is to be taken as literal truth?
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What percentage of Christendom takes early Genesis in a literal sense?
This obviously varies massively between denominations and even within denominations. I am trying to assess what percentage of Christendom takes early Genesis absolutely literally (six-day creation ...
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How much of Genesis 2 *actually* occurred? [closed]
Building on this question...
How much of Genesis 2 actually occurred?
And how do historians/biblical scholars know that it occurred?
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Where did Noah find polar bears and penguins in Palestine, according to those who accept a global flood?
According to Christians who accept a literal global flood, how could animals accustomed to thriving in extreme temperatures be found in a common place for preservation aboard the ark?
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