False dichotomy. It came by inspiration of God, as a declaration that God, and He alone, created the universe. It was given in language its hearers could grasp (imagine that!)
You wanna look for empirical details about the Creation, you ain't gonna get it. As well try to explain Differential Calculus to a duck.
Ok first of all why do you run from the question regarding what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well? I simply asked you if this passage is intended to be taken literally or not.
”Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”“
John 4:13-14 NASB1995
It’s very similar to the message He gave in John 6.
”Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.“
John 6:35 NASB1995
”Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”“
John 6:47-51 NASB1995
And you said this has nothing to do with the Eucharist.
Because it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Eucharist. It's simly you playing at, "hey, look over there!" No worky,
The Roman Catholic Catechism disagrees with you.
1384. "The Lord addresses an invitation to us, urging us to receive him in the sacrament of the Eucharist: 'Truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.' [Jn 6:53 .]"
Aren’t you a Roman Catholic believer? Is the catechism wrong?
Ok so now to address your statement that God described the creation account in a way the Jews would be able to understand. So you think the Jews were incapable of understanding 4.5 billion years broken down into six time frames? Well God knew exactly how to convey such a message in ways they could understand and He did it in Genesis.
”I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;“
Genesis 26:4 NASB1995
”Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”“
Isaiah 48:19 NASB1995
Now God didn’t only use analogies as an example for vastly huge numbers He actually used just numbers themselves.
”They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 24:60 NASB1995
And again He did this in Genesis. Now a thousand ten thousands is 10 million. But obviously He could’ve used hundred thousands of thousands or even hundred thousands of hundred thousands which is actually 10 billion. So no, your wrong, God could’ve explained exactly how long it took to create the earth in a way they could’ve understood.
Another thing is He didn’t even have to explain how long it took. He could’ve just left that information out of Genesis all together. But the fact that He did include it and not only did He mention a time frame but He emphasized on it. He explained how there was day and night before the sun was made. He specifically stated that there was in fact evening and morning on each and every creation day even tho you refuse to admit it.
So now I’ve gone and done it again, I’ve proven you wrong over and over in this discussion so now it’s your turn to post your two & three sentence drive by attack that doesn’t even try to explain anything or actually engage in the discussion where your whole argument can be basically summed up in two word fragments “nuh uh” because that’s basically been your entire argument up to this point.
