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Comparing The Book Of Genesis And Metamorphoses

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How do the two accounts of creation differ?

After reading the first book of Genesis and the first book of the Metamorphoses, I found multiple differences between them; but the one that stood up the most was the way they were written. In the book of Genesis everything has an order and is written in an organized way. In Genesis there’s an all-knowing God who controls the creation of the universe. While is Ovid’s story there are multiple gods or “kinder nature” that arranges the universe. In Genesis it starts with a dark place with nothing in it. On the first day God created light and darkness. The second day, He separated the water from the sky. He continued to create land to produce vegetation on the third day. In the following days, God
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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”.

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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.

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In the beginning there was nothing. The world at first was an endless space and the earth was unfinished. This is how many creation stories begin. The creation of the world is something many try to decipher. People create myths and legends about the first days of the vast universe and anything that pertains it.

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The Genesis Creation Story is from a Hebrew creation myth (Judaism/Christianity). The first story goes like this, Elohim “god” creates a heaven and an earth is 6 days. The second story is Yahwen “god” creates Adam from dust and puts him in the Garden of Eden, where he watches out for the animals. Then Adam creates Eve.

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The Masque of the Red Death is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, and was later adapted into a graphic novel by Gareth Hinds. The Masque of the Red Death is about a Prince named Prospero who invites a thousand of his friends into his castle to party and to escape the raging epidemic outside. This epidemic, called the Red Death, causes sudden dizziness, intense pain, and profuse bleeding. The disease can kill its victims in half an hour. One night while Prince Prospero is throwing a masquerade party in a seven room suite, a masked but terrifying individual arrives and terrifies the Prince and his guests.

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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.

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Tyler Schuhly 1/27/15 Dr. Luther BIB 101 Pentateuch Genesis study assignment 1. There are two way to look at the creation accounts, since no theory has concrete evidence showing that the creation accounts differ or are exactly the same. Some similarities that can be seen between these two accounts is that they both start with a summary. For instance in the first verses of Genesis it says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep (1:1,2).”

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After reading "Metamorphoses" Book I, I found very interesting how the creation of the man and the flood are so similar to Genesis. In both stories, the gods create humans to have dominion over other creatures: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth" (Genesis 1:26); "As yet there was no animal capable of higher thought that could be ruler of all the rest. Then Humankind was born" (Metamorphoses 1:68-88). Also, in both stories, humans were created pure but then turned to evil.

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Biblical creation story demonstrate this through the explanation of the genesis of man, and the order in which all living things are created. In both the Bible and Ovid’s version, man is made last: “And the waters shared their dwelling with the gleaming fishes; earth recieved the beasts, and the restless air, the birds. An animal with higher intellect, more noble,

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There was seven days of Creation, and with each day God created Earth. On the first day, God created heaven and earth. God then speaks light into existence and goes on to separate light from darkness. "And God divided the light from the darkness. " On this day he named light "day" and dark "night."

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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.

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Creation Myth Comparison Creation myths are stories which are told by many different cultures around the world. They often explain how the world came into existence. This essay will be contrasting the Adam and Eve story from the book of Genesis with the Greek creation story, comparing values and beliefs of both cultures. The values in the Adam and Eve story are Men are dominant and there is only one God. The values in the greek story is there are many Gods and there is Gender equality.

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness,” (‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:1-4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬).

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Theogony, there are also multiple differences. One of the major differences between Hesiod and Genesis is the creation of the world, in Genesis the only creator in God while in Hesiod’s work the world is created by multiple beings. In the beginning there was only Chaos then Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros came into being; after these beings were introduced, the world began to take shape through reproduction (Theogony ln. 116-136). Another major difference between the two works is the apparent focus on mankind in Genesis while Hesiod’s Theogony focuses primarily on the Gods.

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