I read this post from the Australian Christian. It was a comment to a post on "what do the creation stories tell us. It is an excellent comment by Michael.
What do the Creation Stories Tell Us? : Michael Bullard
In discussion like these (and they happen often) it seems to me that we use the term "accuracy" (or inerrancy) in ways that aren't appropriate. For example, I can be 100% accurate at maths. Or, I can know something is exactly 3kg in mass. But the Bible is something altogether different. The truth in the Bible is, more often than not, relational and story-based. How can a story be 100% accurate or 100% true. These sort of numbers don't apply when measuring relationships or stories. I can't rate a relationship as 100% sincere in the same way as I can grade a maths paper with a percentage. At the end of the day, I suggest it is more profitable to talk about our "confidence" in the ability of the scriptures to convey to us God's heart and mind, rather than our "certainty" that this or that is 100% true. Faith, after all, is a matter of confidence, not a matter of certainty.
This is exactly the case. To waste time and energy debating the creation accounts is to miss the point that God created the world for a relationship with people!
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