Even if you have a theoretical justification for changing the hermeneutic, it won't hold up to internal critique of Genesis itself, because the structure of the book is explaining is where the various people groups (especially in the ancient Near-East) came from. Every major story ends with a new major nation being founded, and that traces back genealogically to Abraham, the Tower of Babel, and before.
If the creation timeline is an allegory, the genealogies in Genesis aren't real, and the entire justification for anyone's possession of the land evaporates, and along with it, the vast majority of the conflicts and prophecies of the Old Testament.
If you throw away the literal creation timeline, you throw away the entire Bible.
Karl /
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2024-08-01 06:11:00
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