Literal interpretation of Biblical events

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Criticism

Critics charges that Latter-day Saints are required to accept a strictly literal interpretation of Biblical events such as:

• The creation of the earth in seven days
• The account of the creation of Adam and Eve
• The story of the Tower of Babel
• The Flood of Noah being global in nature

Source(s) of the criticism

• Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 143. ( Index of claims )

Response

The creation of the earth

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The creation of Adam and Eve

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The Tower of Babel

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The Flood of Noah

Main article: Global or local Flood

Endnotes

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Further reading

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