Concordist approaches, day-age readings, literary or theological interpretations all struggle with the same basic problem. They are still working with the premise that Genesis 1 is an account of material origins for an audience that has a material ontology. Modern inability to think in any other way has resulted in recourse to all of this variety of attempts to make the text tolerable in our scientific naturalism and materialism. Our face-value reading in contrast, does the following: Recognizes Genesis 1 for the ancient document that it is; finds no reason to impose a material ontology on the
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