[jimmygrace]

You are assuming that some civilization came up with the narrative before Genesis was “invented”. Genesis was the written form of what was orally passed down for centuries before someone compiled it all into written form. That is why a lot of it is lost in translation and written from the perspective of a primitive mind (such as describing the night sky as a dome over the earth).

[ealgeone]

You do recall that all Scripture is moved by the Holy Spirit....right?

[Ancesthntr]

“You are assuming that some civilization came up with the narrative before Genesis was “invented”. Genesis was the written form of what was orally passed down for centuries before someone compiled it all into written form. That is why a lot of it is lost in translation and written from the perspective of a primitive mind (such as describing the night sky as a dome over the earth).”

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Regardless of which culture originated the story, just because a tablet from Ebla repeats the story of Genesis (well, part of it), does not BY ITSELF prove that Genesis is correct. All that it proves is that the Genesis story was part of at least a second culture in the Middle East.

Let’s use the logic that G-d gave our minds the ability to use and comprehend.

[ShadowAce]

Genesis was the written form of what was orally passed down for centuries before someone compiled it all into written form. That is why a lot of it is lost in translation and written from the perspective of a primitive mind (such as describing the night sky as a dome over the earth).

If you take the numbers from Chapter 5 of Genesis, with Adam living 930 years, and go through to Methuselah, you will discover that there were only about 1-2 generations between Noah and Adam, as Methuselah died very shortly before the Flood.

This leads one to believe that there weren't as many re-tellings by people who heard it from other people as you'd like to believe. Adam probably recounted the story himself multiple times--to multiple generations.

And since the Holy Spirit inspires Scripture, I'd say it's pretty accurate.