I guess here's my two cents for this topic.
Even when I was a Christian, I always thought it odd how much Christians made fun of other religions' creation stories. If you study the creation stories of other religions, especially eastern religions, you'll find an array of bizarre, completely illogical and frankly unbelievable stories about floating turtles, golden eggs, and rainbow serpents. These utterly bizarre stories are what many people at one time or another believed to be how the world truly came into being. And I've known many a Christian who has chuckled at the folly of such stories.
The hypocrisy in all of this is how the Judeo-Christian creation story is equally bizarre and illogical when taken literally. The story has a talking serpent. Trees with fruit that contain supernatural powers. A mystical garden. And so forth. Yet Christians have no problem believing all of this is literal, even though there has never been anything like that since nor any evidence that such things ever existed.
While it's not the most bizarre creation story out there, it definitely has some whoppers in it, and when taken in context of its surrounding chapters in Genesis, it follows the same story arc of other creation myths written during that time period.
But yeah, Jesus did mention the Genesis account a few times, so I can see why it's important to hold onto it if you want to give any credence to what Jesus said.
Even when I was a Christian, I always thought it odd how much Christians made fun of other religions' creation stories. If you study the creation stories of other religions, especially eastern religions, you'll find an array of bizarre, completely illogical and frankly unbelievable stories about floating turtles, golden eggs, and rainbow serpents. These utterly bizarre stories are what many people at one time or another believed to be how the world truly came into being. And I've known many a Christian who has chuckled at the folly of such stories.
The hypocrisy in all of this is how the Judeo-Christian creation story is equally bizarre and illogical when taken literally. The story has a talking serpent. Trees with fruit that contain supernatural powers. A mystical garden. And so forth. Yet Christians have no problem believing all of this is literal, even though there has never been anything like that since nor any evidence that such things ever existed.
While it's not the most bizarre creation story out there, it definitely has some whoppers in it, and when taken in context of its surrounding chapters in Genesis, it follows the same story arc of other creation myths written during that time period.
But yeah, Jesus did mention the Genesis account a few times, so I can see why it's important to hold onto it if you want to give any credence to what Jesus said.