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Originally Posted by py3ak Richard, I get the parallelism. What I don't get is why 1.) that parallelism would somehow imply that things didn't actually happen in that way, and 2.) why the parallel organization would take any validity away from the time references. | My current thinking is that (1) the structure does not de facto rule out six-day creationism, but I am still pondering the implications; (2) we need to bear in mind that Genesis 1-2 is a cosmology, hence it is not, of necessity, an actual account of what really happened unlike the Exodus, 1 & 2 Chronicles etc. |
So where, Richard, between Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 is the transition in the text that tells us where "an actual account of what really happened" begins?