On the contrary. If God’s word is untrue regarding the creation, it is untrustworthy on every other point.
Vestments and pew cushions are inventions of men, and have no bearing on the veracity of the Scriptures. Quibbling over them is pointless.
God’s word, on the other hand, is deserving of scrutiny - and will survive it unscathed. Not only that, but the exercise itself increases faith in Him. (Like a witness who endures cross-examination, and his testimony comes through as reliable and trustworthy.)
Consider “doubting” Thomas: He demanded to be able to examine Jesus’ wounds. And when HE was convinced, that gives even greater weight to the eye-witness testimony preserved for us.
2. Not believing in the literal creation story won't keep a believer out of the Kingdom.
3. A person can be brought to saving faith in Jesus without believing the creation story is 7 literal days. Seen it happen.
EXCELLENT POINT!
On the flip side, a god that would have gone to great effort 6,000 years ago to make a universe that shows consistent and ubiquitous evidence of great age regardless of how one observes (whether as a physicist, geologist, geneticist, paleontologist, etc.) is a liar. A lying god is not worthy of worship.
In my world, God is not a liar. The great age of the universe and the evolutionary processes that shape all of creation are real. The story of Genesis is meant to teach morality.