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�� l Memphite Theology l Enuma Elish l Atrahasis Epic l Gilgamesh Epic 188 l Creation l Flood & Flood

188 d Enuma Elish ("When on High") • Babylonian account of creation • Written in Akkadian • On seven tablets, composed during 11 th century BC • Tiamat the mother goddess • Marduk the son kills Tiamat, creating the universe from splitting her corpse into water and sky • Humankind made to do hard physical labour from blood of Tiamat's co-conspirator, Kingu

�� 2 �� ; �� • Origin: 1600 BC • Enki created by fathering clay of Apsu • Order parallels Genesis account • Narrates creation of mankind, cities, and great flood; hero named Ziusudra • Enki, Ninmakh and Namma fashioned humans from clay to farm food and labour

"Let the birthgoddess create offspring, and let man bear the toil of the gods… create humanity that he may bear the yoke… let Nintu mix clay, that god and man may be thoroughly mixed in the clay, let there be a spirit from the god's flesh" (Arnold/Beyer, 24) �� 188 i �� l l Akkadian 1650 BC Creation & flood stories Man created to help overworked gods Man made from clay

�� Pagan 187 l Biblical (Genesis) Polytheistic Monotheistic (1: 1) Myth History Written to satisfy man's Written to glorify God & curiosity on origins extend his rule The gods created themselves Jesus existed before creation and other gods (John 1: 1 -3) The gods struggled for Yahweh sovereign by nature sovereignty (1: 3) Man mostly not in divine Man created in God's image (low status) (high status) People made to be slaves of Man rules over creation (1: 26 the gods 27) Life came from death Life came from life

�� Pagan 187 l Biblical (Genesis) The most powerful god used Yahweh did not need to use magic to create magic Male and female gods had Yahweh had no female sexual activity consort Creation resulted from conflict Creation by orderly means between gods Creative activity not separated Six days of creation model the into days work week These are gods in and of Creation of light, sun, sky, themselves moon, etc. No corresponding rest day is A Sabbath rest completes taught creation Material assumed to be eternal No pre-existent material in the past (Heb. 11: 3)

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�� 1: 1�� 1: 2 -3�� • Pember, Hengstenburg, Scofield Reference Bible (1 st ed. ) 1 - An independent narrative of the original, perfect creation "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (1: 1) Satan's fall 2 - Satan fell between 1: 1 and 1: 2, followed by God's judgment which put the earth into a chaotic state ive the t "Now the earth became formless and empty, darkness was over c n ju is d w e r b e He h t f o n io t surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters " la s n a r t le b a b o r -an imp (1: 2 NIV margin) 3 - An independent, narrative sentence describes the first step to reconstruct & reform the judged earth "And God said, 'Let there be light, ' and there was light" (1: 3) Allen Ross, Creation & Blessing, 718 -19, 721

�� 1: 1�� -3? �� 1: 2 �� (5�� ) • Rashi/NEB, Speiser, Unger, Young, von Rad/Waltke/Ross Satan's fall 1 - Relative clause (dependent or temporal to 1: 2) or title 2 - Three circumstantial clauses with negative, "When God began to create the heavens and the earth" (1: 1) sense describe the condition of the earth when has e n o , n io : t s a n e r io al c in ig r Implicat o r o , n io t crea l ia it in e h t r o "Fearth was formlessinand a)the ible"darkness was over "Now empty, the surface B e h r t o f s e w r o e ll h a w r e o ls n e io k the Spirit of Godawas volut over the waters of the deep, hovering " (1: 2) to looand e s e h c e t e d is o w G with in no ' s w g ie in v n is in h g T e " 'b b) that s e 3) iz 2 n 7 g , o s c s e o r R ( ly " p s 3 - An independent, narrative sentence ning the manner in inshows g it… It sim e b e t lu o s b arily a s s e c e n t which God recreated/refashioned the earth into its present o n are state (not creation out of nothing) after divine judgment. "And God said, 'Let there be light, ' and there was light" (1: 3) Allen Ross, Creation & Blessing, 719 -20

�� (�� ) �� Hugh Ross Walt Brown�� reasons. org godandscience. org creationscience. com Institute for Creation Research Henry/John Morris, Duane Gish Joseph Dillow, Ken Ham Young Earth 24 -hour Creation Days Universal Flood Vapor canopy answersingenesis. org genesispark. org icr. org critiques Ross at: icr. org/pubs/imp-217. htm

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