RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 27, 2014 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 3:21 pm by abaris.)
(November 27, 2014 at 3:03 pm)Lek Wrote: Although, overall the stories are totally different, portions such as the tree and the serpent corroborate one another as far as what knowledge had been passed down through generations concerning the earliest times. Often myths have a basis in reality. There are also many other "great flood" stories from around the world, which would lend credence to the belief in a worldwide flood.
Couldn't possibly be that the Israelites took their inspirations from much older myths? Like, say Yahweh originally being an Ugarit deity. There he was known as one of the 12 children of the highest deity El.