The Creation story and The Great Flood story - A Parallel

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Has anyone notice how the Creation story and Great Flood story parallel one with another?


In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:1-2, 6-8


In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 7:11-12,18-20,24






And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:9-10



and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Genesis 8:3-4,13-14
 

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And it is once again, paralleled in Exodus 14, with the parting of the Red Sea:

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

Exodus 14:21-22,26
 
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Has anyone notice how the Creation story and Great Flood story parallel one with another?



It starts as mostly water, then partially dries after the flood
then is cleaned and quite dry in the end.

◄ Revelation 21 ►
A New Heaven and a New Earth

1 Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and
there was no longer any sea.
 
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It starts as mostly water, then partially dries after the flood
then is cleaned and quite dry in the end.

◄ Revelation 21 ►
A New Heaven and a New Earth

1 Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and
there was no longer any sea.

I don't believe the "sea" in Revelation 21:1 is literal but either is in reference to the Gentile nations (symbolized by "seas") and/or the "sea" by which the Levite priests washed themselves clean and purified themselves before entering the Most Holy.

There is no more Jews, there is no more Gentiles.

There is no more Temple, there is no more Levitical priesthood.

Otherwise how does a literalist reconcile Revelation 21:1 with Zechariah 14:8?

To me, being a preterist, these are metaphoric spiritual passages anyways, speaking spiritual truths not physical truths.

Just saying from the literalist standpoint, what's up?
 
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Has anyone notice how the Creation story and Great Flood story parallel one with another?
Yes.

It seems that Noah's flood wasn't the only water that ever destroyed life on earth world wide.

Prehistoric life was also destroyed by water/ice.

This explains why Genesis 1 begins with a planet covered in water (liquid/ice/fog), and why we now find frozen prehistoric life forms.
It seems that God likes to use water to wash away sin, figuratively and literally.
He does it literally and literally too.

Sin and its corruption literally existed before Genesis 1, just as sin and its corruption literally existed before Noah's flood.

Sin is the violation of God's established order.

If God's established order on earth was violated before Genesis 1, then sin would have existed on earth before Genesis 1, and a literal flood could have been used to wash that sin away, as was the case with Noah's flood.

Genesis 1 is describing the resurrection of a new earth that was dead and buried in water.
 
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Water symbolizes chaos. It's a poignant theological statement that God commands the waters to part and for dry land to emerge. In the competing religions there was war between chaos and order, and order won. In Judaism, there was no war -- God is the Lord of all and all things heed His command, including the chaos.

These kinds of passages are important for thinking about the sovereignty of God. In many passages, one gets the sense that God is very powerful and can do many things. But this same thing was believed of many gods and, interestingly, the Bible doesn't disabuse its readers of that notion. Much of the OT is written from an almost-henotheistic perspective. But in the creation account, one gets the sense that God is all-powerful. I imagine basically any command of water is intended to parallel the creation account. It's the same when Jesus calms the storm.
 
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Yes.

It seems that Noah's flood wasn't the only water that ever destroyed life on earth world wide.

Prehistoric life was also destroyed by water/ice.

This explains why Genesis 1 begins with a planet covered in water (liquid/ice/fog), and why we now find frozen prehistoric life forms.
He does it literally and literally too.

Sin and its corruption literally existed before Genesis 1, just as sin and its corruption literally existed before Noah's flood.

Sin is the violation of God's established order.

If God's established order on earth was violated before Genesis 1, then sin would have existed on earth before Genesis 1, and a literal flood could have been used to wash that sin away, as was the case with Noah's flood.

Genesis 1 is describing the resurrection of a new earth that was dead and buried in water.

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Yes.

It seems that Noah's flood wasn't the only water that ever destroyed life on earth world wide.

Prehistoric life was also destroyed by water/ice.

This explains why Genesis 1 begins with a planet covered in water (liquid/ice/fog), and why we now find frozen prehistoric life forms.
He does it literally and literally too.

Sin and its corruption literally existed before Genesis 1, just as sin and its corruption literally existed before Noah's flood.

Sin is the violation of God's established order.

If God's established order on earth was violated before Genesis 1, then sin would have existed on earth before Genesis 1, and a literal flood could have been used to wash that sin away, as was the case with Noah's flood.

Genesis 1 is describing the resurrection of a new earth that was dead and buried in water.

And the fact that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was in the Garden and God said it was "good".

Evil was present in the creation, via the TotKoGaE and the serpent.
 
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The water cycle also contains strong metaphor. Water is polluted as it courses over the earth and into the sea, to be purified as it rises to the heaven as vapor, from which it returns to earth in the form of cleansing rains.
 
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Yes.

It seems that Noah's flood wasn't the only water that ever destroyed life on earth world wide.

Prehistoric life was also destroyed by water/ice.

This explains why Genesis 1 begins with a planet covered in water (liquid/ice/fog), and why we now find frozen prehistoric life forms.
He does it literally and literally too.

Sin and its corruption literally existed before Genesis 1, just as sin and its corruption literally existed before Noah's flood.

Sin is the violation of God's established order.

If God's established order on earth was violated before Genesis 1, then sin would have existed on earth before Genesis 1, and a literal flood could have been used to wash that sin away, as was the case with Noah's flood.

Genesis 1 is describing the resurrection of a new earth that was dead and buried in water.

Absolutely!

In Genesis, God hovers over a flooded earth and land is created by the receding waters.

Just as the water receded after the great deluge and the Red Sea exodus, the water receded revealing land.

Sin existed in the form of the serpent.

Ken Ham and the AIG crowd have taken "death" to the extreme.

Where according to them everything was vegetarian. Everything was immortal (save the plants even though they represent life too).

If there was no death in the Garden prior to the fall that means animals were immortal too, what happens to any creature that suffers a fall from a great height, suffering crushed bones and internally hemorrhaged organs, is said creature going to lie there suffering without the mercy of death? Heal its damaged organs and mend its deformed broken bones?

Get real. Apex predator dinosaurs and apex predator megafauna mingling together on the earth at the same time with humans and modern nonextinct apex predators means we ran for our lives everyday and should probably be fast as cheetahs by now. But no, we are incapable of outrunning the apex predators of today such as wolves, coyotes, bears, the big cats, etc much less the aforementioned apex predators of another age.

Crocodiles measuring upwards to 40 feet in length, carnivorous therapods measuring upwards of 50 feet plus, pterosaurs with wingspans upwards of 40 feet, predatory vultures with 23 feet wingspans, 10 foot tall terror birds, 12 foot tall bears, wolves weighing upwards of 174 lbs, snakes measuring upwards of 33 to 49 feet, monitor lizards measuring between 18 to 23 feet, carnivorous amphibians measuring between 12 to 30 feet in length, scorpions over 2 feet in length, true spiders with 20" legspans (imagine finding one of these in your garage or cellar compared to your garden variety black widow with 1.5" legspans), centipedes 3 feet in length, millipede-like creatures measuring 8 feet in length, etc, etc.

What a gas, eh?
 
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Was God saying the "Evil" was "good"? :)
yes . righteous or right with him maybe doesn't appear 'good' to us.
that is why he demands obedience and for us to walk through all our cognitive 'issues' with him.
 
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Was God saying the "Evil" was "good"? :)

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good”

Yet “in the middle of the garden” lie opportunity to partake of evil, in the form of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen. 2:9, 17), and the tempter himself, Satan (Gen. 3:1f).

And what about Isaiah 45:7


  • “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the LORD do all these things.”
Obviously both good and evil serve the purposes of God!
 
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“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good”

Yet “in the middle of the garden” lie opportunity to partake of evil, in the form of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen. 2:9, 17)
Are you saying God planted evil in the garden to give Adam the opportunity to partake of it?
And what about Isaiah 45:7


  • “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the LORD do all these things.”
Obviously both good and evil serve the purposes of God!
So the presence of evil is necessary.

Interesting.
 
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As an alternative interpretation to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil:

Consider that Good and Evil are our interpretations of things and purposes and events. Innocence doesn't recognize Good or Evil -- it only sees God. Partaking of that Tree means becoming a judge. This is like God, who had pronounced things that He created as good or not good. In that sense, the serpent spoke truly... to a degree: We did become like God when we ate of that Tree. But in becoming judges (distinguishing Good from Evil), we lost sight of God in all things. A thing became Good in itself or Evil in itself. But Good and Evil are still purely in our minds; they are projections onto the reality which is from God.
 
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Are you saying God planted evil in the garden to give Adam the opportunity to partake of it?
So the presence of evil is necessary.

Interesting.
it was 'righteous' even 'just' for him to plant choices/ free wheels in the middle of the garden, every garden . anything different is void of love and only of control which is witchcraft and rebellion . He states that clearly.
 
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