If they were all powerful gods couldn’t they have somehow blocked out all the sounds of mankind or even send some kind of warning to the people? In the Book of Genesis God decided that mankind was becoming too wicked, and God was sorry he created them. (Gen. 6:6). I thought that God’s reason made more sense to me; he saw his creation become something he had not intended it to be corrupted and full of evil and he could not stand it. In The Epic of Gilgamesh the gods planned to wipe out everyone, but the god Ea decides to warn Utnapishtim because he was a worshiper of him.
In the bible, God decided that there was too much evil in the world and decided to flood the earth for forty days and nights. God picked Noah to build an ark to save two of each animal and regenerate mankind after the flood. In both The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Bible, a story of a great flood occurs these stories compare in several significant ways. Utnapishtim was chosen to survive the great flood because he was a true worshipper of the god Ea, who came to warn Utnapishtim about the flood. Noah was the only man on earth who found grace in the eyes of god.
The once loved and sought after love of God from the people of Judah was no more, they began to worship other Gods, trees, and rocks. Jeremiah prophesied to the people of Judah this message from God, "Listen to the Lord's message, you descendants of Jacob, you tribes of Israel. The Lord says: "What accusation did your ancestors bring against me? What made them turn away from me? They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
The Tabernacle From the beginning of time, men have been worshipping God. But it was not until God gave Moses the instructions for building the Tabernacle that a pattern of worship was given to man. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve communed with God in the “cool of the day” (Genesis 3:8). After the Fall, Abel made a sacrifice of the first of his flock and “the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering” (Genesis 4:4). “Enoch walked with God” (Genesis 5:22).
The Noahic Covenant made at Mount Ararat is a result of God regretting his creation and sending a flood, and is within the context of His favouring Noah and relenting of his anger to save Noah and part of his creation through ordering him to build an ark. The flood destroyed many creatures, leaving only the ones saved by Noah. God makes this Covenant between Himself and Noah, and Noah’s offspring (Gn. 9:9) and all the creatures that were saved in the ark. God states that as long as the Jewish people follow his laws and worship him, he will never again send a flood to Earth.
She then convinced Adam to take some too, and right there was when sin started to spread. Shortly after in Genesis 4, we see that sin is spreading farther when Cain kills his brother Abel. This is only the beginning of the spread. In Genesis 6, we see that the reason why God flooded the Earth was because man had become so wicked that “every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.” Sin had spread throughout the world and infested in men’s hearts to the point that it made God “grieve that he
Like their neighbors, the people gradually accepted their immoral practices and shunned the covenant relationship to the Lord. Before long, they found themselves entangled in unhealthy relationships, worshipping idol gods, and absorbed in pagan worship. Being captured and enslaved by other nations, they would call out to the Lord God of Israel and he would send a judge to restore them (Life Application, p. 344). The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and worshipped the Baals and the Asherahs which angered God so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-Risthathaim king of Aram Naharaim. They were captured, enslaved for eight years but called unto the Lord, their God for repentance.
This paper will examine the direct relationships in events, Gods, and characters in Gilgamesh and Noah and the ark. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem that is the earliest work of literary fiction, written in Mesopotamia around 2,000 B.C. The epic poem was found on twelve incomplete clay tablets that came from the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, the Levant and Anatolia (xv). In the poem the great gods sent down a great flood that is known as the Deluge for seven days because mankind was being too noisy and the gods could not sleep. The man that the god Ea chose to save in The Epic of Gilgamesh was known as Uta-napishti.
However, the book of Genesis is not simply the introductory book of the Pentateuch, but rather it is the foundation of the Old Testament and ultimately the whole of Scripture (Zodhiates 2). Genesis is not limited to only the account of creation but emphasizes that the world was founded by God, that man was created in righteousness and true holiness, but that man fell by his own disobedience, and therefore was cursed by God. In addition, Genesis presents the first promise of a Redeemer, by whom the curse of death would be defeated. The rest of the Book of Genesis (Chapters 12-50) relates the narrative of the four great patriarchs of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. The theme of these chapters is the sovereignty in calling out a chosen people who would serve and worship God.
Jack Shorb Contradictions in the Bible In the view of the Jewish faith, God is all knowing and omnipotent. Throughout the Bible contradictions are made with what role God plays in human’s decisions. In the story of Noah and the flood, God floods the world to wipe out everything except for a pair of every animal and human. If God is all knowing, he knew that the world he was creating was going to turn to a point where God would become frustrated enough to kill everyone. Why than did God create the world only to destroy it.