What do you think of other Ancient Flood stories and the Bible?
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Nice read thanks for posting, speaking on writings I’ve just learned about the silver scrolls dated to be around the 6th to 7th century BCE before the destruction of the first temple. two tiny scrolls found in a tomb on a old road between Jerusalem and Bethlehem pretty cool read it took three years to unravel the scrolls to prevent them from falling apart so old.
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A major re-examination of the scrolls was therefore undertaken by the University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project, using advanced photographic and computer enhancement techniques which enabled the script to be read more easily and the paleography to be dated more confidently. The results confirmed a date immediately prior to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586/7 BCE.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketef_Hinnom
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A major re-examination of the scrolls was therefore undertaken by the University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project, using advanced photographic and computer enhancement techniques which enabled the script to be read more easily and the paleography to be dated more confidently. The results confirmed a date immediately prior to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586/7 BCE.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketef_Hinnom
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It is interesting that some will deny the truth of Biblical stories such as a world-wide flood when such stories are common across a wide range of cultures 
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The title of the video is a slap in the face of God. To even think that the Bible needed to borrow from pagan legends, when it is God who directed Noah, is totally blasphemous.
The Torah -- the five books of Moses -- has always been regarded as divinely inspired by both Jews and conservative Christians. Which means that God gave Moses the words to write, and Moses faithfully recorded everything. So it should be clear that the Bible is the final authority on this subject.
No doubt the pagans had made their own records of the Flood, but they have no bearing on the fact that God (the one true God) was involved throughout.
The Torah -- the five books of Moses -- has always been regarded as divinely inspired by both Jews and conservative Christians. Which means that God gave Moses the words to write, and Moses faithfully recorded everything. So it should be clear that the Bible is the final authority on this subject.
No doubt the pagans had made their own records of the Flood, but they have no bearing on the fact that God (the one true God) was involved throughout.
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Atra-Hasis is simply the earlier source for Gilgamesh.
In the Gilgamesh flood account the ark was a big cube roughly 197ft each side with 6 decks.
He built this 'ark' in a week.
The Gilgamesh flood lasted 6 days.
The flood was ordered by multiple gods that were starving for want of human sacrifice.
It just isn't credible that Gilgamesh was the original story & the Biblical account came later.
In the Gilgamesh flood account the ark was a big cube roughly 197ft each side with 6 decks.
He built this 'ark' in a week.
The Gilgamesh flood lasted 6 days.
The flood was ordered by multiple gods that were starving for want of human sacrifice.
It just isn't credible that Gilgamesh was the original story & the Biblical account came later.
You must bear always inmind, the Bible, itself, admits it is not the only account of what we know as history.
Mankind had drifted away from hi relationship with Go favoring idols and other things formed by their own hands in place of th eliving God. Because of this there are many renditions of a deluge, however the text of the Word was given toman to set man back on course with the true and lving El..God.
So YES, there are many stories of a deluge but afte man was good and confused He chose Abraham, Isaac, Jacob called Israel, and finally yet before the Messiah, Moses to set a few thns straight.
Previous to MOses writing down the history since Adam, oral tradition had been the way, but even that was beginning to drift...ergo, the Written Word from our Father began.
Mankind had drifted away from hi relationship with Go favoring idols and other things formed by their own hands in place of th eliving God. Because of this there are many renditions of a deluge, however the text of the Word was given toman to set man back on course with the true and lving El..God.
So YES, there are many stories of a deluge but afte man was good and confused He chose Abraham, Isaac, Jacob called Israel, and finally yet before the Messiah, Moses to set a few thns straight.
Previous to MOses writing down the history since Adam, oral tradition had been the way, but even that was beginning to drift...ergo, the Written Word from our Father began.