“Some Christians in the modern age pit the creation accounts of Genesis against modern scientific explanations for the origins of the world and cosmos. I would point out that in the ancient Greek version of Genesis found in the Septuagint, the word used for “created” is related to our word for poetry. The creation story of Genesis 1 is a creative, poetic account, not a scientific one… It is a narrative giving us spiritual insight into the creation of the universe. The early Church understood the Genesis accounts of creation as being a superior narrative compared to the various pagan myths for how the world began. Genesis doesn’t offer us a scientific explanation for the beginnings of the universe but rather offers its account which we accept in faith not as scientific fact. Even the New Testament tells us this: ‘Now faithfulness is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of unseen realities. For the ancients were commended for this. In faith we rationally perceive that the ages were composed by an utterance of God, so that the things that are seen have not been made from the things that are manifest’ (Hebrews 11:1-3).” (Fr. Ted Bobosh)
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