[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Protestant. They didn't teach it as infallible and literal doctrine or anything. Far from the truth but it obviously comes up when you are discussing it or Sunday School teachers are trying to tell precoscious little brats about Genesis so you are definetely exposed to it. It was printed in some KJV bibles. I remember my sunday school teacher telling me that you could believe that the earth was made in 7 days, that the earth is 6000 years old, or that you could interpret it in other ways. They could be 7 or 6000 of "God's years" or perhaps you can also consider the Hebrew concept of using hyperbole or figures of speech in describing the passage of time. For example, many historians and theologians argue that the expression of the number 40 (as in "40 days and 40 nights" or "40 years in the desert") was just an ancient Hebrew way of saying: "a friggin' long time!!!"

I guess I've just always believe it could be interpreted in a lot of different ways. Maybe that's the problem here....I've just never even thought about a literal translation because it doesn't make sense to me.

Not really relevant to my life anymore anyway. I guess I have been giving more credit to my fellow Americans than they deserve.