I often ask parishioners, “How many creation stories are there?” They usually say “Two,” and I say, “Name them,” and they tell me the first two stories in Genesis. But there are more than two: there’s also a creation story in Proverbs; there’s a creation story in Job; there’s a creation story in Corinthians; there’s a creation story in the Gospel of John. All of them are different stories. If we’re just understanding them on a factual level, they conflict. So we have to do some kind of interpretations of those facts—how do we understand them in a broader way—to understand all those Scripture
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