A mature relationship with God is rooted in reading His word, and accepting it as truth.
If you don’t believe Genesis, then you don’t believe God.
If you don’t believe Him, you don’t have a deep mature Christian relationship.
If you don’t believe Genesis, then you don’t believe God.
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Ah, the “my way or the highway” approach to faith and religious belief. A shame, really, that some are unable to recognize truth from allegory.
I joined the Church (Baptist) when I was 6 (not knowing I had already been baptized as a baby). I went to church when even my parents stopped going. God gave me a mind, created in his likeness (not just the physical body). Beyond just hearing his Word, we are to actively think about it. It is only by actively thinking that God reveals His great wisdom and power. We are not the animals, who live constantly "in the moment"; we are above them.
We could get into a really really really long Bible discussion, and maybe we should on another thread. As for His Word, you know that it has been interpreted and re-interpreted and sliced and diced by Men over 4000 years. Not to mention how language changes over even a single lifetime. This is why, to me, God commands me to think. To make sense of His Word and the world He has put me in.
>>If you don’t believe Genesis, then you don’t believe God.<<
I’m curious, as a Christian, as to how you derive that requirement. Consider the gentiles that Jesus directly converted, who believed in Him and were saved. Does this mean they didn’t believe in God since they likely had never read Genesis?