The God of the Old Testament started out as just one of many deities of the ancient Israelites. It took a traumatic crisis to make him into the all-powerful creator of the world.Go to comments Open gallery view The earliest writing is about genesis myths: God creates Adam, as envisioned by Michelangelo and painted on […]
Archives for December 2020
Genesis of Genesis: Where Did the Biblical Story of Creation Come From?
The Bible actually has more than one creation myth, and the one you’re thinking of seems to have arisen not from ancient Israelite lore but from the central Asian steppes Primordial Mesopotamian mythical beings: A chaos monster, left, being vanquished by the Sun God. Myths around the region got adopted and changed.Credit: George Lazerby, […]
GOD: A Human History – ASLAN REZA
GOD: A Human History In our image Photo: Getty When I was a child, I thought God was a large, powerful old man who lived in the sky — a bigger, stronger version of my father, but with magical powers. I imagined him handsome and grizzled, his long gray hair draped over his broad shoulders. […]
How did god get started? Colin Wells pdf
BIBLE AND MESOPOTAMIA
NebuchadnezzarThe first 11 chapters of Genesis are largely set in Mesopotamia. Eden is a Sumerian word meaning “steppe,” and was a district in Sumer. The Tower of Babel was in Babylon. The Hanging Gardens may have inspired the story of the Garden of Eden. According to Genesis Abraham and Cain and Abel and […]