Posted on 01/01/2020 4:26:39 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s amazing that most religions have stories of the great flood. The Pequots, in Connecticut, IIRC, had a story about the great flood.
The skeptic’s response is that the Law of Moses was copied from the earlier flood stories as an interesting literary inclusion to the Old Testament narrative.
Some have claimed that the “eye for an eye” principle in the Law of Moses was patterned after Hammurabi. Under Hammurabi, if a perp killed the daughter of another, then justice was to kill the daughter of the perp. Under the Law of Moses, it would be the perp who received justice; the daughter was untouched.
Further, with the eye-for-an-eye concept the Lord introduced proportional justice, if a perp stole, say, an animal, the victim could not take vengeance by killing the perp or his entire family. Moses Law called for a replacement of what was stolen or a fine of appropriate value.
There is much in Scripture to wonder about. Dennis Prager’s response to the question, “Did God create the world in seven days as we know them? Did Methuselah actually live over 600 years?”, said, “Whether it’s literal or whether it’s metaphor, it is the Word of God.”
Ark was lifted from Sumerian Religion of a great flood, Depicting a localized flood that covered their “whole World” Mostly Iraq. The Ark had farm animals not all the beasts of the earth. They also took the story of Moses in the basket from the story of Sargon the Great—of Akkad. And Joseph in Egypt “borrowed” from the accounts of the Genius Imhotep who invented building in stone, mummification and Medicine (But to their credit Imhotep, unlike all other Egyptians, Believe there was only one God).
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