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 RECENT DISCUSSION WITH A YOUNG ADVENTIST WHO BEMOANED “THE biblical literalism and fundamentalism rampant in our church” got me thinking. And this is what I thought:
Exodus 20:11 reads: “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.” Sounds like a pretty literalistic, fundamentalist spin on Genesis 1 and 2, does it not?
“For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner” (1 Tim. 2:13, 14). That’s about as literalist an interpretation of Genesis as there could be. Paul should have read his Bultmann, or Tillich, too. If so, he might never have written that “death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those »
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