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1: Trust the Story

The BEMA Podcast

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It Was Good Is Not About Creation

We wake up in the morning exactly, end our day with the evening exactly. That's a day. Yet this creation tale is telling us about evening and morning. So how does that worksent let alone the fact that the only way we've ever measured a day in all of human history has been the movement of from one porspective the sun? It really becomes clear the moment you start to look at this poem. This poem is not about the scientific reality of how creation was made. And so if you just kind of step back. If we stop reading genesis one like a lab report, because it's not a scientific lab report, and we read it as the piece of literature

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