And Moses was saved by Phaorah's daughter, out of the river. Just like Sargon a millenia before.
And Noah survived the Flood, just like Utnapishtim
And Isaac went to a Temple Priestess to get his son. Like how Sargon came to be, son of a Temple Priestess and an unknown father who moves to Kish and eventually rules Sumer & Akkad, replacing Sumerian with Akkadian for the offical language (although Sumerian- a language isolate, was still used but gradually died out)
I kept considering the problem of "we" in the Bible. God wasn't "I" but "We"
Then I learned that the original text never saidIn the Beginningto start, that was a Council of Nicea decision.
So… In the Beginning wasn't really addressed, it was assumed, just like all the old Sumerian tales that are FAR older.
There's a whole lot of cultural overlap and plagiarism happening in the "good book"
What does all of this mean? I have no idea. I know there was much more pre-history that nobody wrote a word about. SOMETHING turned the desert sand to glass. Something akin to a nuclear explosion, they say a comet. A piece of that glass was noticed and tested. It was observed by a scientist in a piece of King Tut's hoard. There's also a lot of evidence of intense heat on a lot of Egyptian monuments and it's directional. I think the pyramids and much of the megalithic stonework preceeds that comet strike and obviously the flood since they found sea shells at/near the tops of the pyramids. They reinhabited the remains of a previous civilization and vandalized most of it with hieroglyphs but it looks cool.
I wonder what happened to all the old tools? There's evidence of giant circular saws and core boring (all over the world), they did better stone work that can be done right now today. But copper tools. uh huh.
There is Divine Creation, of that I am sure. There were giants, they've found way too many remains to hide that. Not that they were the originals but still, giants. Evidently they were Gingers, double the scary.
The timeline is confusing and the duplication of stories is impossible to ignore. I have trouble believing God wants me to slay a beast to offer savory smells, I just can't buy into that. Leviticus is absurd. IMO. There's also a LOT of duplication,like Joseph and Daniel, same gig and Moses also in the service of Pharoah. Notice the Levite Priests have Egyptian names? Whose practices were they following? New or used? Seeing the Egyptian carving of a circumcision ritual I got major confused/enlightened/confused. The architecture follows the same Temple building styles, East-West orientation etc.
Whole lotta slayin' goin' on too, and chosing a lamb killer over a farmer? Who does that? Why?