Jaran

“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel; the point is, and all evangelical Christians accept this, that Genesis does teach that God is the creator of all which exists, that He effected this creation in six "days," and that He is a personal God embracing His entire creation in His providential care.”
― John Christian Wenger, Introduction to Theology

“Now, the mere repetition made the things to me rather more weird than more rational. It was as if, having seen a curiously shaped nose in the street and dismissed it as an accident, I had then seen six other noses of the same astonishing shape. I should have fancied for a moment that it must be some local secret society. So one elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.”
― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“But killing the possibility of debate is what kills the faith. The debate keeps the conversation at the center of the community. Ending the debate, getting to the right answer, is not the prime directive in the spiritual life. You can tussle with each other and with God (and win!), and it’s all good. The back-and-forth with the Bible is where God is found. Enter the dialogue and you find God waiting for you, laughing with delight, ready to be a part of that back-and-forth.”
― Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It