LOL! You are putting your faith in man - 200,000 books seem to impress you. It takes 200,000 books to unravel ‘some mystery’ and they still come up w/the wrong answer. Man’s logic will never ever understand the supernatural.
Those of you with these ego’s who try and try, again, to disprove what God says...need to know - you aren’t God so get over it already - start humbling yourself.
And there was evening and then morning - the first day. And 200,000 books trying to deceive others to not take it literally. LOL!! Remember - it’s the inspired Word of God and it doesn’t matter what language it was written in. That ‘language tactic’ is old and just a deceptive means to ‘doubt God’s Word. And it worked! It’s no wonder - God says - only a remnant will be saved. God’s Word is true and every man a liar” That’s what happens when they trust in what man says and not God’s Word.
“...what God says....”
See, that’s the problem. You read a Bible in English (and the version that agrees with your religion), and think that it is the word of G-d. It isn’t. It may be a decent translation...of a Latin translation...of an Aramaic translation...of the original Hebrew - but what you’re reading is NOT the word of G-d.
I deeply believe in His existence, but I also try to use the brain that He is lending me for a while. 31 sentences in Genesis cannot possibly give a full explanation of the Creation, nor could such an explanation (if it were possible) be understood by people of all times and places, but especially by a nomadic people living 3,300 years ago who had been largely uneducated slaves for the past couple hundred. Give G-d a little bit of credit for being able to tell a story on many levels at once (or at least on 2) - 1, the surface, that appeals to people who simply cannot understand more, and the 2nd, on a deeper level that requires some analysis, some understanding of the world around you to fully comprehend.
I don’t require the words in 200,000 books for my faith, even if I had the time to read and understand them all. Those books simply explain the physical universe and the world around us as science currently understands them. Undoubtedly, there are things that are incorrect in each of them - but the evidence of the extreme age of the universe has been mounting for centuries, and is becoming MORE solid, not less, as our instruments improve and as our knowledge builds.
Further, and this is critical for me, many Talmud scholars that were intellectually the equal of Einstein and other Nobel Prize scientists in their studies, and who were EXTREMELY faithful Jews, believed that the 1st 6 days were NOT 6 days as we understand them - enough to put their thoughts on paper for all of eternity to examine. THAT belief, backed up by their study of THE BIBLE, is good enough for me.
In Judaism it is a matter of our basic creed that the Bible can, must and does appeal to people of every nation at every time in history. There is a way for every person to find and reinforce their faith through its words (actually, it is supposed to be capable of being interpreted 70 different ways, matching the number of the nations G-d created). Tell me, do you think that someone growing up in the USA in 2009 would interpret things in exactly the same way as a goat herder in ancient Israel 2,500 or 3,000 years ago? My answer is “no, that’d be impossible” - and I would still not have my faith shaken that said goat herder’s faith in G-d was as valid for him, in terms he could understand, as mine or anyone else living now or since.
Dont’ be so narrow-minded - G-d doesn’t require it for faith in Him, nor for you to act as a decent and moral human being.