Old Testament And Genesis Comparison

As previously written, God creates Adam and Eve and puts them into a Garden of Eden to live for eternity as immortals as long as the obey God. Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the forbidden tree and as a consequence God expels them from the Garden of Eden. Their disobedience to God becomes known as "The Fall of Man, Failure of Man or the Original Sin." After their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve begin a family together eventually having three sons named Cain, Abel and Seth followed by two daughters and two more sons who are not named in the bible. Adam lives to be 930 years of age, but there is no biblical reference as to Eve's age when she dies. The following pages compares the similarities of the stories between the Old

In these mythologies of ancient Sumer and Babylonia, it was the job of the junior gods to do all manual labor as requested by the senior gods. Because of this, the junior gods felt they were above this type of work and wanted someone else to do their labor. As shown in Genesis 1:26, Adam becomes forced to rule over all of the animals on the Earth. From the Enuma Elish, mankind becomes responsible to do the manual labor once done by the junior gods. Then from the Epic of Atra-Hasis, beginning with "I have done," the junior gods are no longer required to do manual labor, because mankind was created to do the manual labor. Finally, Enki and Ninmahm starting with "My mother," create mankind to do manual labor Besides the Old Testament, there are other myths that describe a god using dirt, clay or mud to create the first man. Starting with Genesis 2:7, followed by the Eridu Genesis, then the Epic of Gilgamesh, also Enki and Ninmah and finally the Epic of Atra-Hasis where clay is mixed with blood, flesh and clay to create the first

The Sumerian goddess Nin-tu's name when translated Nin means "Lady of Life" and tu means "Lady of the Rib." Within the Old Testament there exist three different versions of God's creation of Adam and Eve.
From Genesis 1:26-27, by the Priestly source, the creation of male and female occurs at the same time and no name is given to either of them. Found in Genesis 2:7, by the Jahwist source, creation of man takes place first, then followed in verses 21-22 when the female is created and again neither of them have a name. Afterwards written in Genesis 3:9, by the Jahwist source, God names the first male Adam who later in Genesis 3:20, names the first female Hawwah. Recorded in Genesis 5:2, by the Redactor source, is the third version of the creation of mankind, however, this time the name Adam is given to both the male and female. In Genesis 1:27, by the Priestly source, God creates man from a thought, but in Genesis 2:7, by the Jahwist source, God uses dirt to form a