Hebrew vs. Christianity
According to the Hebrew Bible, God created the heavens(universe) and the earth. In six days, God created sky, land, seas and everything living organisms on earth including humans. Man was the last to be made by God on the sixth day and was created in his own image. Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible, tells that the origin of humanity started in Eden, which is now thought to be somewhere at the head of the Persian Gulf. In the Garden of Eden, God put Adam, the first man, and Eve, his wife. In chapter 3 of Genesis, God drives out Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden for they have eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is recorded as the first human transgression in the Hebrew Bible. Since then, humans were thought be to cursed by God and were given labor and pain in living and reproduction and mortality. From then on, the Hebrew Bible tells the account of their descendants, particularly of the Jews who are the direct descendants of Abraham. This is the creation and sacred history of the humanity believed by the Hebrews and Christians today. Sumer/Mesopotamian record of creation is scarce for there is no actual text of the creation of the universe like Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
In the Hebrew Bible, God has an intimate relationship with man. Nevertheless, none of their records show the relationship like that of the Hebrews and their God where where God directly speaks to its people and engage in an intimate relationship. Both Sumerian and Egyptian gods gave "birth" to other gods either sexually or asexually. From the primeval sea and air seperating heaven and earth to the stories of the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible, it seems as though Hebrews borrowed some ideas from the Sumerian myth. According to Egyptian Creation, the creation occured with the utterance of Re, the sun god. And the rest says not to commit murder, adultery, larceny, falsity, and avarice over properties of others. In The Epic Gilgamesh, the story of the flood is told. The Sumer/Mesopotamians were polytheists(Nobel 2002) and Enuma Elish lists various gods who represent different aspects of the physical world. Then again, there are too many differences between them. Tiamat gives birth to Anshar and Kishar, gods who represent the boundary between the earth and sky. The Egyptians believed what is called ma'at. Much of their custom and everyday living was shaped by their belief in deity. In a sense, ma'at required Egyptians to have conscience and be aware of their actions. All the objects created in the Sumerian myth were living gods, whereas the Hebrew Bible treats them as inanimate matters; the focus of the Hebrew Bible was on men and the Sumerian myth put much emphasis on gods; the Hebrew God neither had sex nor masturbated to give birth but Sumerian gods did.
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