If we can’t trust the Bible about where we came from, why trust it about where we’re going?

Question

cheerful charles: what? with all the genocides and killings and rapes ....it is hardly a simple love story.

Answer 1

Now, if we could just get the rest of you religious people to think a little more logically like that......

Answer 2

I presume that this is a reference to the debate between creationism and the Theory of Evolution.
As a Christian who is not a creationist, I suggest you see the bible as a wonderful love story - his love for his creation.
The first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis is a prologue to that story. Read it that way and perhaps be bold enough to use a modern translation.
The two creation stories in the bible tell how everything in the world belongs to God and how it is good. The story of Adam and Eve tells how men and women mess it up by ignoring God.
As individuals we either respond to the love of God and enter the state we call heaven - or deliberately reject God and enter the state we cal Hell. The choice is yours.

Answer 3

You couldn't! But ... You can indeed trust the Scriptures as the sure record of God's dealings with mankind since his original direct creation by God "from the dust of the ground". The lives and events recorded in the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments - and now vindicated by the finds of history, archaeology and paleontology - leave no doubt that the skeptics of years gone by were totally wrong in assigning the Scriptures to the trash-pile of ancient mythology.

Answer 4

I assume this question concerns the literal interpretation of Genesis.

I trust the Bible but I don't believe it is a history book or a science book.

Answer 5

I think Sophia B gives as succinct and clear response to your question as can be.

I think humanity must look for its fate from other sources of information.

I think the Bible will prove only an episode in our development.

Answer 6

Exactly.

Answer 7

well said...