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You seem to be missing the point. You're undercutting your claim to taking it literally when you say light represents something other than the usual intention of the word "light." You can't have it both ways. You can't claim it should be read literally and then start offering meanings for words...

You seem to have concerns unrelated to this thread. Here's a suggestion: create a prayer thread about how much you love Chadrho and are worried about his need for repentance. I promise to respond that I will pray for him.

Ah well, I'm sorry it doesn't make sense to you. I'll tell you what, keep following me around and perhaps things will get clear. But please don't stop judging me. I think it's sweet. It's like we're in school when the one who really likes you acts like they don't. It really takes me back! You're...

Are you going to follow me around? Do you like me? That's sweet you got a thing for me. I'm blushing!

God was the light of the first few days? That's not what the text literally says. I guess you take it literally until you don't. But, yeah, I'm the one that needs correcting. Pfft.

Poor Tertullian. He basically thought God was a humongous physical being. I mean, you know what comes out of large physical beings. So, yeah, Holy Excrement, Batman!

We will have to disagree on that. I believe the Genesis account communicates spiritual/ transcendent truths, but I don't believe it recounts events that are in a one-to-one correspondence with historical events. For instance, I don't believe the "days" of creation in ch. 1 refer to 24 hour...

Well, there's another thing you don't know. I do believe the scriptures are divinely inspired. Furthermore, I believe they're divinely inspired to bear witness to Christ. What I don't believe is that they're inerrant. Being divinely inspired and not-inerrant are compatible. God doesn't need a...

You mean God sat down and wrote all the words we find in scripture? What are we children? If that's what you think, fine, but it's grossly inaccurate.

So the scriptures and Jesus Christ are identical? Of course, they aren't. And yet, we equivocate over the phrase *Word/word of God* using it to refer to both Christ and the scriptures. Clearly they are not even close to the same thing so that we can treat them univocally. One is Christ and the...

You seem to be identifying the eternal God with the scriptures. Those two are not identical, and it is idolatry to so identify them. Do you worship the Bible? Of course, you don't. So why are you identifying the witness to Christ, i.e., the scriptures, with the eternal God? Happily, Jesus...

As Barth once put it, I take the Bible far too seriously to take it all too literally.

Answer: A literal reading of Genesis leads to absurdities.

You accuse Jewish folk of bigotry, then you turn around and place yourself in the class of the just and good, excluding others. You, dear soul, are doing the very thing of which you accuse others. Beside, the prayer you mentioned has been around since the Dead Sea was sick. I doubt it's used...

Excellent OP. The definite article designates Torah. The definite article by function picks out a particular that is differentiated from all others, as in referring to God as tov theon. See John 1:1- the  logos with tov theon and the logos was theon.

I think it's best to read it as typological of Christ. The binding of Isaac should always be qualified with the following disclaimer: If God ever tells you to sacrifice your son, it's not God.

Oh, you doubled-down. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Thanks for the condemnation. Maybe you'll pray for me, too.

...... Is there any call for that? The thread poses the question. In honesty, I've said I'm not sure. Now, by way of backhanded implication, you imply I'm not a Christian when I am. Thanks for being gracious. I'll be sure to check myself when it comes to trusting fellow Christians. :(

Not every Christian is fundamentalist or inerrantist.