(March 22, 2015 at 9:36 am)Chad32 Wrote: I wonder if anyone mentions this kind of thing as evidence against christianity/judaism. From what I've heard, we have the original Code of Hammurabi. Yet the sacred text of the One True God has been lost for so long that finding something close to the originals like the Dead Sea Scrolls is a newsworthy event.
"An eye for an eye" is in that Code.
You can also find older flood myths in "The Epic of Gilgamesh".
"Let us make them in our image" is in the older polytheism of the Ugartic text of the Canaanite polytheism. OT characters like El and Yahweh before those titles and names were characters in the "divine family".
Ideas of "Judgment of the dead" existed long before the bible in Egyptian polytheism.
There is nothing as far as ideas that older polytheism didn't convey that is original to the bible. It simply became successful through mere human marketing.
