AUTHOR CLAIMS:
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh dates back nearly 5,000 years and is thought to be perhaps the oldest written tale on the planet. In it, there is an account of the great sage Utnapishtim, who is warned of an imminent flood to be unleashed by wrathful gods. He builds a vast circular-shaped boat, reinforced with tar and pitch, that carries his relatives, grains and animals. After enduring days of storms, Utnapishtim, like Noah in Genesis, releases a bird in search of dry land.
IMPLICATION: The story of Genesis BORROWED from Gilgamesh.
1) Doesn’t this back up the story of Noah as historically accurate and not a myth at all?
2) The director of the movie Noah is an atheist? Figures...
“IMPLICATION: The story of Genesis BORROWED from Gilgamesh.”
Or “IMPLICATION: The story of Genesis shares a common source as Gilgamesh, which is consistent with the geographical record of a flood effectively destroying Mesopotamia, which more-or-less encompassed “the entire human world” back then, and consistent with the Torah.
There’s been interesting speculation about the flood stories being related the influx of water from the Mediterranean through the Bosporus into the Black Sea at the end of the last ice age, inundating many cities along the Black Sea’s shores. People have also speculated the Atlantis legend may have been related to the same events.
Anyway, there are so many flood stories in the region, there must have been a major major flood. Why not?
Noah’s just another chance to kick God. Every Secular Humanist can’t wait to “critique” the story.
I've been trying for almost fifteen years on this forum to disabuse people, but the message never gets over for some reason.
or both stories derive from the telling and retelling of an actual event that happened in the distant past that nearly all cultures the world over remember.
Or:
Implication: The event really happened, as recorded by numerous people groups.
The end of the last great Ice Age occurred about 7,000 years ago, just about the time when recorded history began. Each of the great Mideastern religions, both pagan and biblical, has a great flood story that essentially starts the era of recorded human history. Geology shows the amount of ice that suddenly melted (no AGW then) was massive beyond belief. All that water had to go somewhere. Hence, the most logical explanation is that each of the great religions recorded its own version of the same historic and geological events.
*shrug* Maybe it is borrowed. I don’t see that that matters. And “borrowed” isn’t the best word. It’s just another source is all. Truth is truth regardless of the source. There are lots of similar stories of various types that permeate all cultures. It gives the story a greater ring of truth. In short ... it is a good thing.