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This is\u2026a plea that we follow Augustine and divest ourselves of the notion that interpreting a text\u00a0literally\u00a0means taking it as an historically accurate account of things that happened in time and space. If the text isn\u2019t an historical narrative, then treating it as an historical narrative is not properly a\u00a0literal\u00a0interpretation. \u2014 Chris Heard, \u201cInterpreting Genesis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,43,108],"tags":[895,2272,3840,6621],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genesis-bible","category-inerrancy","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-augustine","tag-creationism","tag-genesis-bible","tag-literalism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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