02-24-2017, 03:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-24-2017, 03:54 PM by Eric the Green.)
(02-24-2017, 03:37 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:Some Biblical literalists are Young Earth Creationists (who say the Earth is 6000 years old, as Bishop Ussher calculated), but other literalists are not YECs.
I question their "literalism", then. Next you're gonna tell me that they believe the Earth is "round" and does not have pillars.
Every kind of literalism is anything but. There is no 6000-year timeline stated in the Bible. It speaks of 7 days, the first few of which cannot even be days, since there was no Sun and Moon yet. There are in fact Young Earth Creationists and non-Young Earth Creationists, who both consider themselves "literalists" or at least "fundamentalists." That's why the term YEC exists.
But it's true that the Garden of Eden is assumed to be southern Mesopotamia.
"Eden" is another name for "Earth," and the term originated as a description of that region, which is where the basic Bible stories came from. So, to realize that Adam is black, you have to go beyond the Biblical tradition to that extent.