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:::Precisely. The Genesis narrative was written for (and by) a people living nearly three thousand years ago, and Jesus lived two thousand years ago. That cultural difference is the whole explanation of why the narrative doesn't say, 'The Earth was formed as a result of the agglomeration of cosmic dust some 4,500 million years ago', and why Jesus didn't understand it that way: none of the concepts involved was understood at the time. (Just as well that, as a healer, he had never heard of the symptomatology of schizophrenia!) --[[User:Petrus|Petrus]] 11:08, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

:::Precisely. The Genesis narrative was written for (and by) a people living nearly three thousand years ago, and Jesus lived two thousand years ago. That cultural difference is the whole explanation of why the narrative doesn't say, 'The Earth was formed as a result of the agglomeration of cosmic dust some 4,500 million years ago', and why Jesus didn't understand it that way: none of the concepts involved was understood at the time. (Just as well that, as a healer, he had never heard of the symptomatology of schizophrenia!) --[[User:Petrus|Petrus]] 11:08, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

::::Jesus was the Creator, so he would know, and He endorsed what Genesis said.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:58, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

::::Jesus was the Creator, so he would know, and He endorsed what Genesis said.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:58, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

:Or so it's reported in the Gospels.

:Or so it's reported in the Gospels.