The Study Of The Enuma Elish, The Bible, And The Bible

We as humans have an inborn sense of moral direction much like animals do. But it is this moral instinct that creates a symbiotic environment. From this one could construct additional rules that simply facilitate the world or are simply observations of the world without such rules being expressed. Or rather we have an inherent desire to live and thrive among one another but ethics as we know it are constructs of society when it was developed.

Human morality could have clearly grown out of primate sociality. Though being morally aware may be a uniquely human trait, many species such as primates, dogs and ants, all known for living in a group, have been known to exhibit pre-moral sentiments. Concepts such as attachment, bonding, empathy, and

Many scholars, once the Enuma Elish was discovered, began to perceive Genesis as simply “another creation story.” Study of the Enuma Elish finds many similarities throughout both itself and the Bible. The Enuma Elish begins “when on high” whereas Genesis begins “in the beginning,” both show strong connection by the bestowing of names to show importance, both have a darkness and emptiness perceived as a chaos before both stories, water is divided into upper and lower bodies, The Enuma Elish is written on seven tablets and Genesis takes place over seven days, and finally both works detail how man is created on the sixth installment. While the similarities are numerous it must be taken into account that God from Genesis is the sole higher power and comes with terms of peace and composure whereas, the Enuma Elish is based upon many Gods and maintain the world with war and violence. When considering how early man may have conveyed early Christianity it seems as a simpler and more enjoyable way to live life. From looking at these similarities one can conclude how the Bible, with a more approachable method to living well, became the more popular of the two resulting in its long stance as one of the world’s most popular systems for living ethically. (King;

Plants and animals can flourish but only rational beings, humans, can experience. Happiness in the contemporary sense is usually determined subjectively but, it is for the individual not the outside force to determine if one is happy. It is to mean if someone’s life as a whole has been a happy one. It is far too easy to mistake if one is in a state of eudemonia, not because one is disillusioned, but because one may interpret it to involve largely of physical pleasure or luxury. Understanding this mistaken conception shows to us how eudemonia is a moralized happiness akin to ‘true’ happiness the kind worth having.