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Claim CH102.1:

Genesis must be literal; it is straightforward narrative.

Source:

Morris, Henry M. 1998. The literal week of creation. Back to Genesis 113a (May). http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=838

Response:

  1. Straightforward narrative does not imply literalness. History, sacred myth, fable, fantasy, parable, analogy, writing exercises, and other genres are all typically straightforward narrative, and each of them requires a different approach to interpretation. Simply noting that a writing is narrative does not indicate how to interpret it.

  2. It is far from clear that Genesis is straightforward narrative. Genesis 1 has a formulaic and poetic structure.

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