All must be literal or nothing at all? Who here is taking John's Revelation literally? It is correctly taken by most, "literarily" not to be literal. If Genesis allows for a poetic or figurative way to express that Yaweh the only god has created all from nothing, it should not threaten us. I happen to see it that way, it actually makes more sense of the text and the harmonizing difficulties that have been discussed are not needed. The core message is the same Yaweh creates and ceases striving with his creation unlike the egyptian and mesopotamian gods.

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Bruce
PCUSA
Ocean City NJ