Thread: Six-Day Creation: Is it worth the battle?
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Old 01-11-2008, 05:48 AM
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[...] but as 'an expression of a miserable condition'
Perhaps, but if this is right, you're no longer reading the text literally. If the words don't literally mean "eating dust", then where do we stop?
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