And here's my obligatory anti-evolution comment. Birds did not evolve from dinosaurs. Their types were created individually merely 6000 years ago by God on the 5th day of Creation. That is what I believe, and it is backed up by solid science.
Okay, I am not being sarcastic. If old-age universe evolution were true, wouldn't that mean death came before sin? Doesn't the Bible say the opposite, that sin came before death?
My point there is that evolution and Christianity are incompatible. Believing evolution which is based on man's word completely opposes the biblical teaching and history of God's word.
Well, what if you believe in the pantheistic kind of Christianity? (Meaning God = nature) Wouldn't you then believe that nature created everything by evolution? The question is whether it's still Christianity, believing in God but not in biblical stories. I think the methodists do that, they believe that the Bible is to be taken as a metaphor, "moral of the story" kind of thing, not literally.
Not really. Books are made up by words, words can have multiple meanings. People have interpreted the Bible in many ways, and nobody can know with absolute certainty what the authors meant when they wrote this or that story.
And that's just the original text in Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic, but the Bible was translated into so many languages it was inevitable that there would be more opinions based on a slightly different translation. Also, I'm not a historian so correct me if I'm wrong but I think that all the other translations were done based off the latin translation, Vulgata. So even the first translation might have been a bit off, and then all the others were based on that. It's like playing Chinese whispers.
Otherwise -> go and educate yourself
And that's just the original text in Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic, but the Bible was translated into so many languages it was inevitable that there would be more opinions based on a slightly different translation. Also, I'm not a historian so correct me if I'm wrong but I think that all the other translations were done based off the latin translation, Vulgata. So even the first translation might have been a bit off, and then all the others were based on that. It's like playing Chinese whispers.