Maybe, but still better than Phil Collins' later solo career.
The waters divide into a god and a goddess, who have children who are also gods. War breaks out between mother and father, and between mother and children. Mother and Father Gods create the Federal Government which then creates human beings to be its servants.
God’s people were supposed to continually write down exactly what God told them about creation and morality and blood atonement and many other things. They were supposed to study well and teach these things to their children. Some did. They are called the remnant. The vast majority turned their backs on this and worshipped the creation instead of the creator. They changed the creation story and followed in Daddy Adam’s footsteps, rejecting sound doctrine in order to exalt the sinful creature, to worship self. God will judge, and He will not be mocked.
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy and/or confusing Cause and Effect.
The logic of this article is profoundly flawed.
Since we, in the Western Hemisphere, have a Weltbild shaped by Christianity, of course we are going to find the Christian version of the Creation Myth more to our liking.
The people of some other culture will, by the same token, say with satisfaction how their Creation Myth is unique in having the world formed by spilled seed of two celestial beings having sex, etc. - which they will claim better reflects the world as we see it today.
Regards,
Every culture has an origin myth. Many have flood stories. Nothing wrong with understanding man’s need to “know” where they came from.
Is Genesis the “true” story? Don’t know. Don’t really care.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV
Either you believe it or you don’t.
For anyone that doesn’t........what if your wrong?
There are two creation narratives in Genesis.
There’s an angel standing in the sun
And he’s crying with a loud voice
“This is the supper of the mighty one”
Lord of Lords, King of Kings
Has returned to lead his children home
To take them to the new Jerusalem
It’s not a myth....................
There's no competition:
And the evening and the morning were the first day: day one, yom echaD [יום אחד]
And the evening and the morning were the second day: yom shenI [יום שני]
And the evening and the morning were the third day: yom shlishI [יום שלישי]
The red letters spell "DAY" [דיי], just like the name sounds.
Dalet + yud + yud add up to 24. But of course.
Next "myth"...
No. Anything to get the Mother of the Living off the hook.
The biggest difference:
Water and Chaos created their god.
Our God did the creating.
Genesis is true and it actually matches very well to our understanding of the Big Bang. Gerald Schroeder, a physicist and devote Jewish scholar, has written several books that I found to be excellent reads related the Astrophysics as we understand it to Torah. He goes into the science of relativity and the Torah in detail showing the consistently.
If you have ever done the exercise where you whisper a short story to one person who then whispers it to the next on and on and on and then have the last person say what they heard it would explain what this article is speaking about perfectly.
At one point all of Gods children were told the story, but it changed in many cultures over time and got twisted into what we know today. Only the Jews were able to keep the story unchanged through time at Gods direct command.
The only thing really up for serious debate in Genesis is the time frames in regards to creation. Which can easily be explained by God being outside of our time and that the days mentioned in the biblical account of creation have no relationship to how we count a day.
Why, SURE it’s a myth!
Because - Once upon a time, there was NOTHING…
And then, just like that, the nothing went ~BOOM!…
And then, there was everything!.. perfect order!..
Makes a whole lotta sense, don’t it?
Modern man is to smart to believe in biblical myths like a seven day creation, Adam and Eve, etc. Also, there will be an awful lot of intellectuals in hell.
Yes.
William Shatner’s “The Unexplained” on the History Channel has an Episode on the book “The 12th Planet” by Zecharia Sitchin which is about a wandering planet that is involved in Earth’s beginnings, and the book is available on Amazon. Looks interesting, have ordered it.