1. In the beginning, when Jesus created the heaven and the earth, 2. The earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters (Genesis 1: 1-2). Then God said “Let there be light, and the light was there, and God called light “day” and darkness “night”.
When both gods imagined “Earth” land formed from the darkness. They thought of trees, plants, mountains and valleys, water and sky. All of which appeared from the darkness. Thus Earth was formed.
This is compared to the second pillar of Enuma Elish where it states, “He created the evil wind, and the tempest, and the hurricane… He sent forth the winds which he had created.” He was looking over His creation, not just earth but all of the foundation of the universe. Now in Enuma Elish Marduk the Babylonian god is said to have created the earth as a purpose to serve the gods, which he did with Ea, his father who helped him create humans.
Chapter one of Genesis goes over how God created the heavens and the Earth. On the first day he created night and day. On the second he created the sky. On the third day God created the land, the oceans, and the plants. On the fourth day God created the sun, the moon, and the stars.
He created the Heavens and the Earth on the first day and the light on the second and so
In the Genesis Chapter 3 Verses 1-22 the main plot of the story is that Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. God told them that the fruit would kill them. But the the snake(Lucifer) told them that you will not die from eating the fruit but have your eyes opened and that you will be like the gods who know good form evil. So Eve takes the fruit and gives part of it to Adam and they both eat the fruit together. At that very moment they realize that they are naked and sew on leaves to cover their private areas.
Anna Thompson David Schenker AMS 1060 17 February 2023 Essay 1.2 In the beginning, something created the heavens and the earth, as every creation story starts. Even Hesiod had the same concept, along with the book of Genesis. Although both of the works came from different cultures, they have the same idea and some of the same values.
The Bible describes it; ‘….the earth was without form and void… and darkness was upon the face of the deep’ (NKJVGenesis 1:2) and a similar claim is made in Hesiod’s Theogony which alleges that in the beginning there was only confusion of Chaos and unbroken darkness.
The first similarity that I see is the way that the creation of the world is addressed. Both start out with some form of nothingness, in Genesis there is an empty void and in Theogony there was chaos. In genesis god first creates the heavens and the earth. This is shown in Theogony “ In the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss, But then Gaia, the earth came into being”
The Bible is filled with anachronisms and contradictions in the narrative. These are literary contradictions in which something was stated that belonged to a different time period or when one finds in one story, information that disrupts the logic of the narrative. In the Book of Genesis chapters 7 and 8, one will find examples of both anachronisms and contradictions. In Genesis chapter 7, readers will find an anachronism when God tells Noah to bring 7 of every clean animal. During this time period, it was not yet known which animals were to be considered clean or unclean.
From the ancient Near East there are three Mesopotamian flood myths and one Judaic flood story. The oldest is the Eridu Genesis, shown a the left and written in 2300BC, then the Epic of Gilgamesh, pictured in the middle and dated to 2150BC, next is the Epic of Atrahasis, on the right and written around 1650BC, and then the Old Testament, written between 538 to 330BC. All four accounts of the flood begin the same way as result of the overpopulation of mankind or mankind is too noisy, mankind is to violent and corrupt or God become dissatisfied with mankind and decide that with the exception of their favorite mortal on Earth the rest of mankind should be eliminated by a flood.
God created the earth by his image. They both were empty darkness in the beginning of the story. The Genesis story says that “the earth was formless and empty, darkness in the deep surfaces.” In the Greek story had empty darkness too then there was a void.
In “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson, God started creating everything that lies on earth today. He didn’t create it all at once. He took his time and used 7 days to create everything. I followed the same steps as I started to express my thoughts on paper.
The Book of Genesis is what starts out the Bible. It states the beginnings and origins. In the reading, Genesis is what will set the tone for much more of the bible. The beginning of the Bible introduces many words that are key for the rest of the stories so it is important to know their true meaning. Being completely honest, this passage was chosen because it was the first one listed.
It says in the Bible that God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. This is true but there may be more behind it. God spoke the universe into creation with the power of his words. That could just be symbolic, He may have created the universe over a span of billions of years. There is always an order or a law that we cannot change because it is beyond us, so God may have created the universe using an order and creating it under a law.
