Terrence Howard

So there was a flood.

There's a number of reports for a regional flood.

But as far as it being a global flood, that doesn't match according to archaeological facts, according to the glacial facts.

So I had to start questioning those things.

And remember, we were told that the Bible is the word of God.

And man wrote it, but it was under inspiration.

And I was like, well,

If I look at 4004 BCE as the starting point for man being here, well, that doesn't match the genealogical records of everyone coming up out of Africa and making their movement through Gobekli Tempo.

All of these places, 13,000 years old, other places showing that mankind has been here at least 300,000 years or at least a million years.

So that was a hard thing for me.

Because I felt like I was losing my religion.

But at the same time, I was gaining my common sense that when they began writing about trying to understand what was taking place, they used the best tools that they had available at the time.

But those tools, now we have more sensitive instruments.

And so we should be using those sensitive instruments and using our common sense and take the stories that we can from these things, but not to... We have to walk away from fairy tales at the end of the day and hold on to truth and hold on to the God when we pray.

Who do we pray to?

Do we pray out there or are we praying to a deeper place inside, the connectivity to the creator?

And the thought that I had to go through an interceder, like I'm a father.

There's nothing that any of my sons could do or my daughters could do that they would have to go through somebody else in order, one of my other children to talk to me.

There's no way, and I'm not even a perfect father.

I'm a loving father and a just father, but there's nothing that my son could do that would make me throw him into a fire and burn him for eternity for something he did for 30 or 40 years or even 80 years.