Cats and Dogs, Living Together

In my days as a minister, I would point out to potential converts the vast qualitative difference between the biblical account of creation and those of other world religions. For example, one world religion posits the idea that the world rests upon the back of a turtle, which in turn floats in a sea of milk.

I only supposed that a major world religion describes the earth this way because some preacher said it; I never took the time to confirm that this was so. In any case, I ridiculed and belittled these fantastic and unbelievable ideas taught by non-Christian religions and explained that the Bible's descriptions of reality are in line with scientific knowledge.

The fact that I was being intellectually dishonest is borne out by another fact: The Bible also contains fantastical and unbelievable descriptions of reality. For example, there is the account of giants, and gods having sex with humans:

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. (Gen. 6:4)

So, what's the diff?

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