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[–] 22393152? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If you believe that the universe is merely a few thousand years old then you aren’t thinking big enough.

I agree that God sends us his word. But there’s a lot of room between believing the Bible is true and believing in a young universe. There are different types of stories in the Bible. Some are meant as chronicles of historical events. Others are meant symbolically, like a parable or metaphor or coded message. It’s possible to believe in a universe billions of years old and still accept the authority of the Bible as God’s word.

If you reject the authority of scripture because cosmology / geology doesn’t square with a hyperliteralist YEC view, then you are throwing out the baby along with the bath water. (NOTE: that’s just a metaphor, not a literal account of what you’d be doing!!)

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[–] 22393798? 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Jesus spoke in parables; God did not.

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[–] 22394483? ago  (edited ago)

God speaks through prophets. Every line of scripture was composed by a prophet acting by inspiration of God. I dare say that this also applies to the sayings of Jesus.

Edit: the chief difference between a parable and a mystical passage in Genesis (for example) may be simply that a parable is an overt analogy, whereas a mystical passage from the OT may not be obviously such. But it is instructive to consider the ways in which prophecy (not necessarily about future events) and prophetic imagery relate to their subject matter. It’s perhaps similar to the way oral traditions eventually result in a legendarium while still possibly rooted in historical or culturally significant messages.