Are there any Christians here tonight who interpret every aspect of the bible literally without question?

Question

…those that do believe unquestioningly, could you please tell me briefly your interpretation of the seven day creation story?

Answer 1

It would be just plain to silly to interpret every single passage of the Bible literally. Take the book of Daniel, for example. If you try to take that literally you'll be looking in vain for a really big statue made from all different kinds of materials.

Now, onto to Creation. I don't know 100% for sure if the "seven days" talked about in Genesis are real days or if they are figurative. But I believe that God does not have to conform to same rules he gave to the created order. God is holy, which means separate, He is separate from the creation and therefore outside it. His rules are not our rules. I don't believe that God HAS to take millions and millions of years to make the universe. God could do it in moment, in a heartbeat, with a thought, out of NOTHING he made it all.
If you can believe Genesis 1:1, the rest of the Bible is easy to follow.

I don't believe that God had to make a pile of goo, and then an amoeba, and then a fish, and then a snail, and then a blah blah blah till you get to humans. I believe that God is powerful enough to man a whole human man out of a lump of clay. I mean come on, he's GOD, right?

Answer 2

The seven days would be, to me, a sign that God doesn't get limited in the time/space continuum.

According to Einstein, and using this equation we made two Japanese cities disappear....
all of space and time and matter and energy are interlaced. There is no way we could have any one of the four without the other three.
Since by definition, there is no eternity backward, there was a point in time when there was nothing,,, not even time. And according to the other side of the theory, entropy, there is not eternity forward either. Nor infinity, space bends back on itself.
Also using this formula, there is no way for anything to have come into existence.

Which is why Einstein believed in God.

If you look a little further in Genesis you get something overlooked by preachers, a lot. The tower of Babel.

God says something very interesting, that there is nothing that man can not do. That would follow logically if we were created in His spiritual image. Means that left unhindered, we would find the secret of the very creation itself.

Which is scary, because you just know that any research would be funded by one or another government, meaning that said government would want the results as a weapon.

But think for a moment, what would happen if another space continuum were created within this one?

We already know what the idiots have done with breaking atoms apart incompletely. With an atomic or thermonuclear explosion there is hardly any mass lost, no destruction of matter, or close enough that it makes no difference, at least from the perspective of somebody who is being reduced to his component chemicals in a split second.

Answer 3

If God said it happened..it happened. I do not care how HE did it, I just accept it. I do doubt that it took millions of years as some think but I also know that if GOD had wanted to do all that He did in the first six days as in 24 hours per day, that could easily have been done too. He could have done it all in a second had HE wanted to.

I do know that God created each thing after its kind thus a fish did not evolve into a reptile. We are also told with no uncertainty that Adam was made from the dust of the Earth and Eve from a rib so that shows how special humans are to the LORD.

God became a human to redeem us from our sin.

As to thinking everything in the Bible is literal. often we can tell from the content what is literal and what is not. Often we see things such as "became blood" or "became as blood" One would be literal, the other not. Watch for the little words too....They can often change the whole meaning of a verse

Answer 4

I might fit your description.

I take each word, phrase, passage and story literally as the original writer intended it, not as we interpret it. That means that before I really understand a story, I have to study the culture that produced it to get a better view.

My interpretation of the 7-day creation story is that, at one time, it was a stand-alone story (the first 34 verses appeared on a single clay tablet), and that the writer intended to tell a story of 7 24-hour periods.

He measured these periods by the rising and setting of the sun, and he called them "yom", the Hebrew word for a 24-hour day. I see no room for misunderstanding or interpretation.

Answer 5

Is deepest interpretation of the Bible condoned in the Bible Itself? No, it isn't (2 Peter a million:20). grow to be human being interpretation of Scripture practiced by using the early Christians or the Jews? back, No (Acts 8:29-35). The fact that persons can wisely interpret Scripture is fake. Even the "founder" of Sola Scriptura (Martin Luther), close to the top of his existence, grow to be afraid that "any milkmaid who could examine" would discovered a sparkling Christian denomination in accordance which includes his or her "interpretation" of the Bible. Luther opened a "Pandora's field" even as he insisted that the Bible would nicely be interpreted by using persons and that it truly is the only authority of Christianity. Why do we've over 20,000 different non-Catholic Christian denominations? the reason being persons' "different" interpretations of the Bible.

Answer 6

The Bible is a book...

My own theory...


Evolution and Creation are the same. Creation is evolution, everything that God has made were made in a very slow dynamic creation. Think about the cronology of both theories. Everything are the same in terms of cronology. The Bible simplified the story of creation for the purpose of making people of ancient times understand these complex theory of evolution and for the sake of a more poetic book. Creation was not a product of a "There shall be Man!" and poof there was Man. Creation was and is a dynamic power of changing the world. The world is creation and the world was and still is in the process of creation. Creation, however, has been slowing its pace because of the fact that in the 7th Day God rested. Creation is no longer creating and changing the world dramatically. It is now in a pace slow enough just to keep the world maintained. These are my opinion and I do not expect people to take this theory seriously

Answer 7

I believe everything in the Holy Bible and have no problem believing God could make the earth in seven days. It also states that to God a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as a day.

2 pe 3:8 But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

So maybe God made the earth in six thousand years, but I believe he did it in six days. God can make a universe, how hard would it be to make the earth.

Our God is so awesome that he just says the words let there be, and it is.

Answer 8

Absolutely not. You interpret the Bible by its context and original meaning.

If you read it absolutely literally, you would believe that, by Matthew 1:1, that David is the father of Jesus and Abraham is the grandfather of Jesus. "A record of the life of Jesus, son of David, son of Abraham"

If you read it in context, you will clearly see that the author is saying that Jesus has the authority King David has as heir to the kingdom, and was heir to the covenant of God promised to Abraham's seed.

Answer 9

Here is a link to a site featuring highlights of a Newsweek interview with Billy Graham, and what he thinks about taking the Bible literally.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14204483/
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The question is about half-way through the interview.
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Answer 10

It would be too long to type out, but I can tell you to read the very first chapter of Genesis and you will have your creation story.