A visit to Babylon will clarify the point.
2006-06-16 01:51:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree, but apparently most people have never read any of these texts that your talking about. When you bring it up they will answer with "all cultures had similar stories". I don't understand if they ever read the stories and saw that they are from what they call Pagan religions with multiply gods and how the same story is written in Genesis and is uncannily similar from the story plot, the sequence of events and even the language how they could deny that the bible was taken from them and changed to one god.
Science has clearly dated these documents and the bible and the other texts are clearly more ancient by many centuries. But apparently they are afraid that if they read them their belief system will be shattered and that thought may be unbearable to most people.
2006-06-16 02:03:20 · answer #1 · answered by cj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll just stick with Genesis till I get the chance to visit Babylon.
2006-06-16 08:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus only quoted the Genesis account ‘Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the Ark. Then the Flood came and destroyed them all.’ (Luke 17:26–27) not the Gilgamesh Epic.http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2004/0329gilgamesh.as p
2006-06-16 09:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by bbsobau 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some myths are common for whole humankind, i.e. deluge or imagination of the first sin. The myth of Deluge is older than the oldest book in Bible, it appears in Enuma Elish. But you can't say that Genesis is a copy!
2006-06-16 08:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by Lia Fail 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you will find, if you do some moere research, that Genisis existed long befor any books were written. It was oral history first, ie stories known to the elders and passed down from one generation to the other.
Having said this, it would be nice to know what you discovered in Babylon.
2006-06-16 09:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by katwishi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, and interestingly enough, there are over 600 copies of it throughout the world. No original, but 600 copies saying the exact same thing.
There's only something like 50 copies of Homer's 'The Iliad' (and no original of that either), yet for some reason, no one doubts Homer existed.
weird.
2006-06-16 08:59:12 · answer #6 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are implying the hebrew OT was generated using Babylonian documents you are incorrect. The hebrew OT documents parallel the older Babylonian writings (Enuma Elish) but the OT writings came from oral tradition... not non-hebrew writings. They began to be documented around 970 BC and the Torah was finished in 444.
2006-06-16 09:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by Nobody Special 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is a copy of older books.
BUT,
just because it is a copy, that does not make the KJV wrong as SEEMS to be implied to me.
BESIDES,
The Bible as we know it, which includes Genesis, come from scrolls and not books.
2006-06-16 08:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some truths that are never altered and never die.
2006-06-16 08:54:49 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and your point is
2006-06-16 08:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋