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The Claim: The Bible describes fantastic, mythical beings—men who lived to be nearly a thousand years old, giants who walked the earth, and creatures like unicorns and dragons. This shows that the Bible is just a book of myths and can’t be trusted to inform us about the historical past.The Nephilim According to Genesis 6:4, by the time of Noah there came a group of individuals called the Nephilim , who “were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daug …

In this excerpt from his book, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties, Trent Horn looks at how we can make sense of what seem to be inconsistencies with the Gospel narratives around the the time of the Nativity.Consider the accounts of Jesus’ birth that are found in Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels. According to critics, Matthew 2:1-23 tells us that Mary and Joseph lived in Bethlehem, where Mary gave birth to Jesus and the couple received the Magi …