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Gaborone, Botswana, November 11, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The resolution to renounce the almost immortal assumption that the Genesis creation story was intended to give us facts about a creator God who formed things and how any other thing came up seems to be the inevitable one. So observes Douglas McBride, a certain researcher on this story from Southern Africa. But this call now comes unusually not really as the result that Genesis might be in gross conflict with some fancy scientific findings or perhaps some forward-thinking philosophical invention.

After closely examining his King James Bible, Douglas McBride couldn't easily draw a fine line between where the Genesis story must be read plainly and when it required him to be creative in order to obtain its full message. There are several occasions where Genesis presupposes some amount of imagination to effectively deal with its text. To his surprise, there have been shades of such creative approaches before and this could even be done by the Christians whose overall outlook is understandably that Genesis must be read plainly. This double approach within the fundamentalist community itself tends to create obscurity and inconsistency about their general belief about Genesis. Are they now saying Genesis shouldn't be taken to be literally true?

Having neatly raised issues of this kind, Douglas then goes ahead to argue that, this story in point of fact presupposes to be approached entirely nonliterally. From there he explains a certain system of interpretation with which he then read between the visibly dark lines of the Genesis narrative. In his reading Douglas McBride takes a completely unorthodox approach whereby Genesis is perceived as having not been intended to be any literal text detailing to us the facts about how things came up. The message of the Genesis story is rather a cipher which he makes it his main interest to decode.

Douglas actually decries the popular creationism versus evolution conflict, which is the very outcome of reading this story literally, as not only overrated but also some reckless means of diverting us from the intended truth of this text. Essentially, he believes that it is his ground breaking finding which can once and for all resolve the long standing issues surrounding this story. His work is currently hosted at the website authonomy.com and to access it, search 'the genesis cipher' there or go here.