Peace all,
My name is Believer, I am a devout Christian and I am proud to be a member of this site.
This is in regards to the early stories of the Bible that the Muslims love to take and make them look corrupted.
Are the early Genesis really true to the exact detail?
It doesn't bother me at all what Muslims say about the Creation story. God created everything, and He was pleased by it all.
He created mankind in His likeness, meaning He gave us dominion over this world. Mankind lost it's perfection through Adam's sin.
And here's something interesting.
The story of Noah's ark is very very similiar to the pagan Sumerian's "Epic of the Deluge." Here, Gilgamesh is commanded by the god Utnaphitsim to build a great ark and to bring aboard his family and a host of animals. A flood kept his boat aloat for a long time.
Then he set forth a dove, but it returned. Then hesent out a raven, and it didn't return.
You can read the Epic of the Deluge ath this site:
http://www.okbu.edu/public/academics/sc ... lgaweb.htm
This doesn't bother me however.
Was Noah really Gilgamesh? Was there ever a Noah?
It doesn't bother me at all.
Mankind became evil, and God punished them by wiping out alot of them in an disaster. The few that kept God's covenant survived and thrived.
You see, the morals here are more important than the stories themselves. Many stories in the OT are like Jesus Christ's parables. Some of these parables could of been true historical stories, others may have existed for the sheer purpose of conveying a deeper message. Either way, they were both good stories and illustrated important morals that God truly wants us to understand.
You Muslims can keep carping and nit-picking at the Bible, but all your cheap shots by no means prove the Bible is wrong.
You just want to bring down what you don't understand and what you don't WANT to believe.
But your Quran is just words with nothing behind them.
The Bible is truly the Book of God; It is full of morals that show us how God truly wants us to be.
May God bless you