I often stumble across things that others have no doubt seen long ago but they are new to me, and perhaps they will be new to others.
This poster is quite a feast for the eyes. This is an instance where a collage of 15 pictures can be worth 15,000 words (but not to worry, this post will be short). Click to view a larger version and see if you can guess which thing is not in the Bible (hint: it’s the only thing that is/was real).
I know that some will dispute whether unicorns are mentioned in the Bible, which is the word that the KJV translation used vs. the more modern translations which translate re’em as a one-horned wild ox. Also, the KJV uses the word satyr which we know from Greek and Roman mythology as the half-man / half-beast creature vs. a hairy/wild goat that may be what was intended in those passages.
Even if those concessions are made, a person has to truly turn off rational and evidence based thinking to believe in dragons, talking snakes, 7-headed beasts, demons, witches and giants.
Sorry Rex, the ark is full.
This reminds me of a little girl in our neighbourhood who asked me if dinosaurs were real. I asked her what she thought. She told me that she thinks they are real. I asked her what she has heard from others and that’s when she told me that others said dinosaurs were not real and never lived on the earth. So I asked her where she heard this and she told me some children at school and she had learned this as well at Sunday School.
I asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up. “A palaeontologist” she replied. I smiled. Then I asked her how we could know that dinosaurs were in fact real and did live on the earth. “Fossils” she said. I smiled and said “That’s right.” We talked about the fossils and they are our evidence as to their reality.
She went home beaming from ear to ear. Six years old. 🙂
What an awesome thing you did!! Your post really made me smile too. 🙂