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Why does the world described in the Bible seem so different from the world we live in?

Dragons, unicorns, behemoths, leviathans, mediums, demons, spirits...it seems more like a lord of the rings kind of world than Earth...and that's just one part... There's also the fact that God was active in daily life, sent signs and spoke freely in person with his people. That is nothing like what we see in the real world. The world just seems so much like the God described in the Bible is nowhere to be found. Is God trying to encourage doubt? Is he trying to trick his followers into disbelief? It worked for me.

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1. I don't know, why does the world described in The Lord Of The Rings seem so different from the world we live in? It's called fiction.
2. Because it was a different world a long time ago. Most values or other things still relate to today though.
3. According to these scriptures the bible is describing the world we live in quite well, don't you agree? (2 Timothy 3:1-5) But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. (Matthew 24:12) . . .and because of the increasing of lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off. (Revelation 11:18) . . .and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
4. Because it is myth. It is a way to explain humans place in the universe. This myth and many others arose when humans had little understanding of natural forces and little control of their immediate environment. It was demon haunted world full of fear and uncertainty. It was a different world. We know a little bit more now. We have some measure of control of our immediate environment. We have a long way to go, but at least we have started freeing ourselves from these myths meant for a different time, though they still have historical value.
5. Dragons? Unicorns? I see the Biblical world as refreshingly realistic. It doesn't gloss over the darker side of human nature. Rather it recognises it in all its awfulness, but it also offers an answer. That's very much the world I live in - what about you?
6. Tomi C, don't you think that describes just about any period in human history?
7. Just think logically about this for a minute.....we live in an age where there is all kinds of technology: airplanes, guns, nuclear weapons, cars, tanks, etc. Back in the Biblical days, there were non of those things, they couldn't even imagine what those things were. When prophets were given visions of the future (what the world is like TODAY), they saw things that they could not imagine - they could not describe. What is an airplane to us, may seem like a giant demon flying in the air, a nuclear bomb blast may be a huge fire in or from the sky, tanks could be behemoths, etc. They could not know what a tank was or what an airplane was - so they used whatever words they could to describe what they saw.