@Exile >authenticity
I'm a Pietist, thank-you-very-much. And I can be that while also believing what the Scriptures say plainly.

Reading over your conversation with the armutt dude, you argue exactly like the neo-orthodox and social-gospel types did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Almost word for word, with accusations of ivory towers (sorry, "faery-castle") and bibliolatry, imposing demands of "real life issues" as though that isn's something orthodox pastors were already doing - I half expect to hear you say "Deeds, not Creeds!"

No, the modern man does not necessarily interpret every "myth" as "faery tales." I can point you to 2 million LCMS members, 750,000 WELS members, as well as every member of fundamental Baptists and nearly all theonomists in the Reformed tradition. All modern, all YEC. And for those moderns who don't agree with YEC, I have lost exactly zero friends over the disagreement.

But that's beside the point. How much of what is described in Scripture do you believe never happened?

You may have noticed that over the past year of being on Poast, I have not once gotten into a "sectarian" argument over YEC with anyone. Myles and I had a friendly debate on Rand's stream.