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Originally Posted by Og  You have to be a young earth creationist to be a true christian if it's about "believing that jesus is the literal son of some deity named yaweh"... Without the literal original sin, the literal redemption on the cross doesn't make any sense. |
Very well put. I have a christian friend who purports to be a strong believer, but relegates notions like a 6,000-year-old earth to the relam of allegory vs. actuality. Even some bible-thumpers can see when so much evidence is stacked against literalist believers.
I applaud his attempt to respond to overwhelming scientific evidence, but I've warned him that a christian's first step away from absolute literalism puts him on a very slippery slope.
Your observation regarding the necessary connection between the literal redemption and the literal original sin expresses that idea better than I've been able to previously. Thanks.
I think I'll call him up this afternoon...