Comparing Gilgamesh And Genesis

Differences: People love reading and watching exciting stories of “gods” portrayed by cute actors, but, beyond youthful lust, most don’t bother to go further than Russell Crowe’s cute nose, much less in seeing the difference between the truth of the Bible and the pantheist beliefs of some stories, and how they can affect their lives. The flood in Genesis is not the only story of its kind, other mythological versions have a very similar act to tell. The flood in Genesis shows that the one existing God (Yahweh) controls all things, and in the mythological story of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the god Enlil needed other gods to help control all things. The overall point in the stories come to a similar conclusion -humanity was corrupt or bothersome and needed punishment- but the differences are in how the God (Yahweh) or gods demonstrate their control and their reason for needing a flood. Some may choose to believe differently, or not choose at all and see them both as myths, but pantheism and monotheism, with their similar stories, have an impact on human life and an application to the world that are very
The point to see in Genesis is the reason that God was disgusted with “His” people, and how he controlled the situation. At the beginning of the book of Genesis, “God created man in his own image” (Genesis 1:27) , which gave His people a connection to Him, but, by Adam’s sin and essential separation from the unity of God, the world became wicked. In the book, “A Survey of the Old Testament”, the authors say, “The flood represented God’s punishment on the world, but also his grace” by sparing the human race and not obliterating humans totally (Hill and Walton 85). It was justice that God was demonstrating by the flood, and the act of God sparing Noah was the act of God’s mercy and love that is not demonstrated in the Epic of