So I just asked this question, but I didn't get my question across right. For those who have answered the other one, sorry about that.
So my second attempt:
If Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden around 4000 BC (an approximation, not an exact date), they would have told their children about the One God. As with religions, after being raised on the God of the Garden of Eden, a religion would have started nearly immediately.
However, Yahweh was not mentioned again until around 1800 BC (again, not an exact date, but pretty close). IF the stories in the OT were passed down from the children of Adam and Eve, why did it take so long for the religion (or even the idea of monotheism) to start?
If written tradition started around 3000 BC, why did the stories (that had to have been prevalent for the idea of Oral Tradition to actually work) wait until 1300 BC to be written down?
My question is, if these stories started from the beginning of time, why did they take so long to be heard?
2007-11-12
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