Did you know that almost everyone in your child’s world – even many Christians – will try to convince your child almost everything in life is a gray area? With the possible exception of murder and a few other crimes, most people today believe in relativism. Everything in life is relative and truth is whatever the person decides is truth.
The result is, very few people believe there is such a thing as absolute truth. Of, they may believe in the absolutes of math and probably accept everything their science teacher teaches them as absolute truth. Anything the Bible teaches though is presented as highly suspect. After all, the reasoning goes, most of it was written thousands of years ago by people who are not as educated and sophisticated as we are.
Of course, what the writers attribute to God was merely a collection of myths and popular wisdom of the day. They will even point to other societies that have similar stories of a flood or taught a few similar laws as examples that it was merely the culture of the time, not God’s rules and principles that are true for all times and places.