Early Mythology Creation Stories

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Creation of the universe and earth The biblical creation story is significantly different to the Greek and Egyptian creation myths partly due to the reason the biblical creation story is how one God created the universe, earth, humans, plants, trees and animals. This was all created by the monotheistic God who by His Words all was created. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.1 The bible has one creation story that has been canonized, even though there are some supposed contradictions between Genesis chapter one and chapter two, however further reading and study reveals Genesis one is describing the creation concerning the whole universe and chapter two is describing specifically what occurred in the garden of Eden.2 It must be remembered that modern western thinkers view events in step logic, this means in chronological order but the Hebrews did not think in step logic but in block logic. This is the grouping together of similar ideas together and not in chronological order.3 Greek and Egyptian creation myths are different and have many different stories depending on who is telling them and which city or region they are being told, there is not one particular story of events that have been canonized as being the only story, this makes the Genesis account in the Jewish tradition unique compared to Greek mythology and Egyptian religions. Consider one Greek myth of creation the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth, from which arose the starry, cloud-filled Heaven. Chaos existed in the beginning, and then gave birth to

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