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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void,

and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over

the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light, and there was light. And God saw

that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day,

in the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning the first day.

And God said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters

from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse

from the waters that were above the expanse, and it was so. And God called the

expanse heaven, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said,

let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear,

and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the waters that were gathered together

he called seas, and God saw that it was good. Today's episode of Stone Quires, you might have guessed,

is going to be about the six days of creation as it intersects with theology today, and as it

intersects with modern scientific understanding.

This is a subject that we broached in episode six on the perspicuity of Scripture,

where we discussed in some different detail that we're going to go in today,

the fact that there are modern debates among Christians about to what degree do we believe the Bible?

Do we believe that it is allegorical in some areas?

This is some sort of fictional genre of literature that isn't to be believed literally.

What do you do when God is saying things that don't

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