There work lead people to understand that not everything in the Bible has to be viewed as immutable fact.
Everything in Scripture
is factual, but
sometimes it requires a symbolic understanding.
For example, here’s an understanding you may not have come across: Revelation 21:1, which says....”And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away,
and the sea is no more.”
This isn’t literal. Both plant and animal life need the oceans for survival! No doubt the
planet itself, in ways we don’t fully understand yet.
So what does this mean? If you read the description found @ Isaiah 57:20, you’ll grasp what Revelation 21:1 is talking about, which makes a lot more sense!
The Bible
always “makes sense”,
when it’s interpreted correctly....just like the evidence discovered by genuine science, reaching sound conclusions.
Like the scientific understanding of energy, that it can neither be created nor destroyed...it only can change in form. (If energy can’t be created ex nihilo, then that means, what?
It’s always existed, in some form.)
Well, this
perfectly describes Jehovah God’s eternal existence... He is not made of matter; rather, He is the supreme intelligence, in a form of pure energy. The Source of all matter’s origin. The Big Bang, for one. Genesis 1:1.
You identify as Christian Methodist. I’d sure like to know your view of God, and the origin of physical life.