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Re: Can you look at religion scientifically, and still believe God exists? - July 24th 2009, 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by ~Emily~ View Post
Is "7 days" in the bible really that literal? Or is it possible that when the Bible was written, people couldn't fathom such a HUGE amount of time, so the people (yes, people) who wrote the bible, put it in words that people could understand? Is it possible that, when the bible was written, they didn't understand the earth's past so they couldn't write quite so accurately as we see things now, but by writing what they knew and understood? So isn't it possible that science and religion can coincide? If we don't take the Bible quite so literally, everything can fit. People have this strange conception that you either have one or the other. But what about Christian scientists? Why not confirm one with the other?
The 7 days is literal, in a sense. But we don't know if it was 7 days in God's time, or our time. God is quite out of time. Jesus was in our time. The Holy Spirit exists in our time. However, out of the Trinity, God is not exactly in our time. Could've been seconds to us, could've been trillions of years. We don't know.

Anything else I didn't answer is probably because it's been said multiple times throughout either this thread or another. You can search if you want the answers, or PM me.