#157 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story
Ask NT Wright Anything
The Lost World of Genesis
Genesis is not a scientific description of how the world came to be. It's poetic in the sense that as only poetry can, it's saying three or four or five things at the same time. Most British Christians don't get hung up on six periods of 24 hours like some Americans still feel they have to. That was a very America specific thing. And I never tired of saying this because these questions regularly come from American people often don't realize how peculiar that context is.
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