Genesis Historical Basis

Yes, it's a joke.2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of reno

Yeah, it's a really surreal bit. The key verse is Gen 11:6: "The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."The use of "the LORD" at the beginning pegs this as a "Jahwist" passage. It was written fairly early on, when Judaism was much less of a monotheistic religion. The next verse is "Let us go down"..." There are various interpretations

There's probably a grain of truth in Noah's Flood. There's similar flood myths in several religions, that place the flood in around the same period (for a very wide definition of around). I suspect there was a major flood event, a flood so big people interpret it as divine punishment. The flood may have went as far as the eye can see, at every place people may have ever been to, and would translate to "It was flooded everywhere", which over time got translated to

While very old, Genesis' stories were told by bronze age folks to each other and by an area's local priests for a variety of reasons, much like stories of Odin, Thor, Ea, Zu, Zeus, and Neptune. A broken clock may be correct twice a day, but I wouldn't take it a proof that the clock is predictive sometimes.Indeed, the stories of Enoch and Methuselah show that any hard bound was clearly violated within a tiny group of humans it claims are originators.

Just like in the story of Utnapishtim!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UtnapishtimHow much more of ancient lore will hold true?

God is a great author to reference. The Bible is filled with enough atrocities and inconsistencies that it remains my number one recommendation for deprogramming Christians.God told Abraham to kill his son as a test of fealty, then psyched him at the end:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_IsaacGod flooded the entire fucking earth, killing countless innocent people:<p

Well, it is a collection of stories edited for morality - but where those stories originally came from is the extremely interesting point. The bible for example seems to contain two, dual, and opposing creation myths (genesis and the garden of eden) - these two stories almost certainly started out as different belief systems and were homologized.Anyways, this article links to one about another impact at the end of the Younger Dryas period (~12k years-ago) (<a href="https://www.natur

i was thinking: maybe the story of Lot in the Bible (Genesis 18-19) is referring to the same story - a great city destroyed by heavenly fire for its sins would be quite similar to the story that resulted in the religion of Göbekli Tepe.

huh, as an agnostic exmormon, I can kinda believe that origin myth. It's kinda profound what gpt4 comes up with sometimes.

Considering it’s a real place…https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/destruction-of-cit...How much do you want to bet that both of them are wrong?