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In the Beginning … We Misunderstood: Interpreting Genesis 1 in Its Original Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

For years, the evangelical church and its members have debated whether the Bible should be interpreted literally or symbolically in regards to the age of the earth. In their groundbreaking new book, In the Beginning … We Misunderstood, authors Johnny V. Miller and John M. Soden say that all these arguments have missed the point. Rather, what Christians really need to know is how to interpret the...

announcements of God’s creative word and his approval.15 But none of this means that this is a scientific description of the order of creation itself. Rather, the structure makes the point that both order and substance in the world originate with the purpose and plan of God. Bible readers have long noticed and commented on how having evening and morning before the creation of the sun generates a problem for a strictly linear chronology. A literalist
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