Kristen

Personally, I don’t think the Bible was intended by God to be “the history book of the universe.” It’s not a history book, or a science textbook, or a rulebook that tells us what to do in every situation, or anything of that nature. It’s the story of God’s creation and redemption of humanity; it’s the story of Christ. As such, it contains history; but telling us all about the history of the universe is simply not what it has ever been forl.

I think finding authorial intent (both God’s and the human writers’) is the best way to interpret it. I can find no reference within it that it was ever intended to be “the history book of the universe.” I think if we’re not careful, we will apply templates to it that the original authors simply never conceived of. Scientific methods, newspaper-style reporting, and so on, are among those templates that are often misapplied. The Bible needs to be allowed to be what it is, not faulted for not being what it was never meant to be.