05-27-2026, 05:52 PM
(05-27-2026, 04:25 PM)Creaky Wrote: A rehash, why are they not an original story passed down over generations, why are they a rehash. Why is it rinsed, it’s just repeated, it’s clearly not rinsed in the Hebrew, they covered their evil deeds, with clarity, their failures. No other book details a societies evil and failures as clearly as the Hebrew recorded their own history.
We all have a common ancestor so we all have a similar origin and story to match.
Because the story of the Book of Genesis and the Sumerian flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh share remarkable similarities, that's why.
LIke that fact that in both, the gods decide to destroy humanity with a great flood.
Where one ""righteous"" man is warned beforehand or thereabouts.
Aka "Noah" in Genesis and "Utnapishtim" in Gilgamesh.
Both build large ""ocean-going boats"" save animals, survive the flood, and release birds to find new dry land.
Granted, one boat seems rather more magical than the other, but similar nevertheless.
And afterward, both ""righteous"" survivors offer sacrifices to the divine beings.
Tell me that does not at least suggest some sort of ""cultural exchange"" between ancient Mesopotamian and the Hebrew traditions?
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
