LibertyGal on Nostr: I believe it is all literally true and am very involved in my church, read my whole ...

I believe it is all literally true and am very involved in my church, read my whole Bible through every year (+ other Bible reading) donate a large portion of my income to our church and to over 20 missionaries and have been growing closer and closer to God over many years. My belief in a literal 6 day creation and a literal worldwide flood have greatly increased my faith in my God and helped me understand why He has authority over my life and the world and why He can be trusted in all things. Genesis, especially the first 11 chapters, is the foundation of everything else in the Bible (sin, marriage, men/women, clothing, death, punishment, etc.). Without this foundation, the rest of the Bible is on a very shaky foundation. If you don't believe in a literal 6 day creation, do you believe in the virgin birth? If you don't believe in a worldwide flood that wiped out every person and animal that wasn't on the ark, do you believe that Jesus was really raised from the dead on the third day? If you can pick and choose which parts are real and which parts aren't, how can you be sure that Jesus's birth, life, and resurrection are real? I believe building my faith on a foundation of stone and not a foundation of sand.
The girls who talked big about a literal Bible and drifted away were people whose foundation was men (even if they were biblical leaders) instead of on faith and the Bible. There is no direct link between a literal interpretation and leaving the faith even if you know some people who claimed to believe one thing and left the faith. Sometimes culture influences people rather than the Bible and the Spirit.