What becomes of our faith if the Genesis account is NOT literal?

[HealthyShape]

Would we, though? As I see it, that happened in part because that's what Abraham asked for.

I think so. I do not see God to be truly reactive to human actions, because God lives outside of time. It may only seem so from our human perspective.

If God created the Universe in a different way, the context of our salvation would be also different, but God would always love and save through His Son, it is His unchanging nature.

Everything Abraham did was done because God predestined it to be done that way. If God wanted it to happen another way, it would happen another way. If we discovered that it actually did happen in a different way than how it is written, then it would be just a change of historical facts/context, not a change of God's nature.

 

[Wick Stick]

I think so. I do not see God to be truly reactive to human actions, because God lives outside of time. It may only seem so from our human perspective.

If God created the Universe in a different way, the context of our salvation would be also different, but God would always love and save through His Son, it is His unchanging nature.

Everything Abraham did was done because God predestined it to be done that way. If God wanted it to happen another way, it would happen another way. If we discovered that it actually did happen in a different way than how it is written, then it would be just a change of historical facts/context, not a change of God's nature.

That's a lot of hypotheticals. However God chose to work, we would need to know about it.

If we didn't have the story of Abraham in Genesis, we would need some other revelation.