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To: GunRunner
At worst they are plagiarisms from the creation myths of the Sumerians and Babylonians.

I've recently been discussing this very thing on another thread.

We differ in at least two places. I don't believe they are myths at all and I believe the creation story was taken by Cain to Babylon. It was they that copied the stories and corrupted them. Genesis is true but has to be read deeply for that truth.

225 posted on 07/21/2007 4:38:32 PM PDT by Ping-Pong
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To: Ping-Pong
I don't believe they are myths at all and I believe the creation story was taken by Cain to Babylon.

Archaeologically, the cuneiform tablets which depict Mesopotamian myth predate the writing of the Bible by 1000 years. There is also a logical argument to be made that the serpent in the garden was added to imply superiority over the religion of the Mesopotamians who worshiped a snake god.

The Bible is rife with borrowings from other religions; the great flood and the garden of eden to the virgin birth. Perseus, Gilgamesh, Jason, Dionysus, Osiris, Horus, all born of virgins. Virgin birth is like a cliche in ancient myth.

I think a thousand years from now, people will read how 20-21st century man conquered the stars, split the atom, and mapped the human genome, but was still unable to break himself away from the myths and folklore of ancient religion.

Thomas Jefferson once said: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter".

226 posted on 07/21/2007 5:06:51 PM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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