22 Jul '14 02:06>
Originally posted by FMFWhen you open your Bible, and it's just you and The Book alone, there are two present. You and God. The Word of God, the Bible, as you read, is God speaking to you directly.
Most Christians I know interpret the "six days" story as a metaphor. The biblical text plainly contains a metaphor about the "six days". Greek, Hebrew, English ~ all these languages have metaphors.
We do not interpret it. It says what it says. We believe it or not.
2 Peter 1:20
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
The Word of God, as it is contained in a book we call the Bible, when studied, interprets itself and reveals what it means without human intervention or definition.
It's the only written work of its kind on earth.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.