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WHEN we were students of biblical exegesis in the school of theology, one precept drilled into us was to be conscious of the "literary form," and so to understand the sacred writing according to its literary form. Pseudo-problems triggered by the Book of Genesis when read as history are exactly that: ersatz problems arising from confusing literary forms. Genesis is written like all "protological" tales, "accounts" of how things began, and even before there was anything at all.

Quite clearly, they cannot be read as "accounts." But they are, for believers, an inspired answer to the fundamental ontological problem why anything exists at all, and the Book's answer is because there is a benevolent and powerful Creator who has willed what he saw to be good!