Part 1:
It’s important to clarify what you mean in your writing. “If the BIBLE didnt say it then its not true”? So, vaccines are not true? Automobiles are not true? Of course, that can’t be what you meant with your statement. So, what did you mean?

“If the BIBLE says it then its true.” What is true about all the bad advice Job’s friends gave him? Isaiah 11:12b states, “He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” What does “four corners” mean in that verse? It’s too simplistic to say, “it’s true” without knowing what it’s actually saying. I believe that statement is true, but that statement is teaching us about God’s providence, not the shape of the earth.

It’s true that the Hebrew word for day (yom) can mean a 24-hour day. But, it is also true that yom can mean a longer period of time. So, how do you know which true definition the Bible intends with Genesis 1?

Part 2:
Remeber, you are probably not reading the original Hebrew; you’re probably reading a translation, which means you’re reading someone else’s interpretation. Christians translate Isaiah 7:14 with the word “virgin.” But Jews translate it with “young girl.” The Hebrew word there, usually means young girl. But, Christian translators have interpreted it to mean virgin because of its relationship to Jesus.

And if “there shouldnt be any questions about God,” why does the Bible spend so much time telling us about the character of God? Why not just give us the facts and tell us to accept them? The truth is that God wants us to know him and seek him.

I’d greatly recommend John Piper’s sermon, “Why God Inspired Hard Texts.” The sermon does not deal with Gen 1 or the big bang, but deals with the good that comes from God not making everything easy to understand.

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1999/1074_Why_God_Inspired_Hard_Texts/

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Your brother,
James

Second: I so very much enjoy this topic because I find it humorous that Christians are looked down upon for having too much faith in things unseen. I would understand this standpoint if the critics did not also.

The Big Band theory was not witnessed and it was not recorded because no one was there. (On a side note; the life and death and re-life of Jesus Christ was witnessed, and was recorded because there were lots of people there.) The Big Bang theory is derived from the study of the Universe and how it moves….

Bobbie: “Hey Frank, I’ve been watching these stars and planets for years now, and they seem to be moving from central location!”

Frank: “Well lookie there! What could that mean?”

Bobbie: “See “Creation vs. Evolution - Big Bang THEORY” by Jerry Price”

Frank: “Well lookie there.”

http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Read up. It can only expand your knowledge of the topic.

I know vaccines came after the Bible. I was showing that Tim’s words, “if the BIBLE didnt say it then its not true” are nonsense if his words are taken literally. Of course, he didn’t mean them literally, and that’s my point. Why demand the Bible be 100% literal when we don’t expect any other nontechnical books to be 100% literal?

In Rev 5:6, John wrote he “saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain…” (NIV). Do you think in heaven Jesus will literally look as a slaughtered lamb? Is the whore in Rev 17 a literal woman?

You don’t need to think Gen 1 is not literal to accept the Big Bang. The Hebrew word for “day” can literally mean a long time, so there’s nothing non-literal about seeing the days as long times.

In the Big Bang, the universe began with an explosion of material that was infinitely dense and infinitely massive. Yet, the Big Bang does not explain where the matter/energy came from. There is zero reason why God has to be excluded from the Big Bang.