The Bible Follows Religious Traditions? Part 1 (TMF:775)

Friday, November 10, 2017
Peace to Live By: The Bible Follows Religious Traditions? Part 1 (TMF:775) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention Five: All religions have creation stories, and the Bible is no different. This being the case, the Bible is just following in the tradition of other religions. Over the years, I have heard this argument. Often times people will bring up the Native Americans, and talk about their creation stories. They’ll say that these stories were written, or put on a cave wall, before Genesis was written. I would say, though, even if they were it would not matter. We really don’t know for sure the exact date at which the first two chapters of Genesis were written; it could have been before all the other stories and just handed down to Moses. We know we have them by approximately 1,500 B.C. Even if Native Americans or whatever early tribe which spawned from the Flood of Noah had come up with a creation story before Genesis 1 and 2 were written, it still is nothing like the creation story we find in Genesis.