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Snake responsible
for man losing
Tablets damaged no Snake eats plant of
Tree of life
eternal life and
Gen 3:1
Gilgamesh remains
mortal. "Covered + devil + 2
trees"
Curse of
childbirth pain Tablets damaged no
Gen 3:16
"2 trees + 1 man"
Curse of Hard
labour Tablets damaged no
Gen 3:17
Gen 5:29
"Ancient weeds"
Ship was built
Gen. 6:14
"8 person boat"
God brings
animals to ark Tablet damaged No indication. -
Gen 6:20 Enki attracts animals
to boat with rain
Food was stored
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Gen. 6:21
Animals in ark
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Gen. 7:8-9
Family on Ship
Tablet damaged
Gen. 7:1-10
Animals afraid of
man after flood Tablet damaged Tablet damaged -
Gen 9:2 Animals afraid of
divine Enkidu after
he becomes man
Rainbow
reminder of flood Tablet damaged Tablet damaged -
Gen 9:13 Bead necklace as a
reminder of the flood
2. Noah and two his counterparts in Gilgamesh (Ut-napištim) and the Sumerian Eridu (Zi-ud-sura, king and the
Gudug priest) were all in close spiritual union with their God. Noah was seen as the righteous one who walked
with God and Utnapishtim is seen as equally pious in obedience to his gods. The oldest version in the world
(Sumerian) has Zi-ud-sura as, "king and the Gudug priest. All three were rewarded by after they sacrificed upon
leaving the ark.
3. Both Noah and Atra-Hasis were given explicit dimensions of the ark. The Sumerian tablet is damaged.
4. God gave mankind a 120 year period of grace through the preaching of Noah whereas such grace was completely
absent from the Gilgamesh account where the impending destruction was a secret the gods wanted to keep even
from Utnapishtim. However in the Atrahasis story, the god Enlil sent many plagues hoping to quiet the human
noise that kept him awake. However Enlil's grace may have been more direct actions to reduce the population
and therefore the noise, rather than a genuine period of grace like Noah and Moses offered in an effort to get
moral repentance.
5. Both boats were coated inside and out with bitumen.
6. Only 8 persons were aboard Noah's ark Likewise in Gilgamesh, a small number of Ut-napištim's friends and
family were saved.
7. Noah took 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of all the rest, including birds, reptiles etc. with herbivores. In Atra-
hasis and Gilgamesh loaded animals into the boat but there is no differentiation between clean and unclean
animals.
8. Noah didn't have to go looking for the animals that went into the ark. God brought the animals to Noah, but we
are not told how. In Atra-Hasis "Enki", the god of water (later Greek: Neptune) attracted the animals to the ark
with rain.
9. All four flood stories speak of a global flood that rose above the mountains and that killed everything on earth.
The oldest story, (Sumerian Eridu) is damaged but the indication is clear there was a global flood. The Bible says
that the waters rose 15 cubits (22 feet) above the highest mountain.
10. Noah released four birds, seven days apart. First a raven that did not return, then two dove's that returned
followed by a dove that did not return. In Gilgamesh also released three birds a dove, sparrow and raven. In the
Berossus, Xisuthros releases several birds each time. In Gilgamesh, Ut-napištim releases a dove, then swallow,
then a raven. Interesting that the biblical account of the order of the birds being released is scientifically correct
in that a Raven, being a meat eater, is far more able to survive than a dove that is a delicate herbivore. Noah sent
the stronger bird first and the weaker bird second whereas Utnapishtim did it in the opposite order.
11. All the flood accounts feature sacrifices upon leaving the ark. Noah offered one of every clean animal and bird
which was a soothing aroma to God. In the oldest flood Sumerian Eridu flood story, Zi-ud-sura "the king
sacrificed oxen and offered innumerable sheep." So both Genesis and the oldest Sumerian story agree that a large
number of animals were sacrificed. InGilgamesh, Utnapishtim offers a bloodless sacrifice of sugar cane, cedar and
myrtle of sweet smelling incense. In the Berossus, Xisuthros offers a sacrifice with no specific details.
12. God was appeased and moved to never destroy man again when he smelled Noah's sweet sacrifice whereas when
the gods smelled the sweet sacrifice of Utnapishtim, they "gathered like flies" in a most base, undignified and
animalistic manner as though they hadn't eaten in weeks. Even worse, when primary deity Enlil, arrived, he was
prevented by the other gods from approaching the sacrifice because he had so rashly destroyed all of man. In the
Bible, God is sorry for creating man and then sends the flood. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enlil is sorry for sending
the flood then rebuked by other gods for doing so. In the Bible man is the sinner, in Gilgamesh god (Enlil) is the
sinner. Remarkably, however, both stories arrive at that same conclusion that the earth would never be destroyed
again in completely opposite manners.
13. All stories have God offering a blessing after they left the ark. God blessed Noah to have many children, and to
start eating meat, but not blood. All of Noah's counterparts in the other flood stories were blessed with eternal
life. Zi-ud-sura in Sumerian Eridu, Atra-Hasis in Atra-hasis, Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh all were blessed with
eternal life.
14. God gave the rainbow as a reminder to Noah of the flood. Similarly in Gilgamesh, the god of the womb (Belet-
Ili) arrives and presents Ut-anapishtim with a bead necklace as a reminder of the flood.
D. Literary evidences of inspiration of Genesis:
1. Genesis focuses on what happened to man on earth with very little imagery in heaven, whereas Gilgamesh
focuses primarily on what the gods did in heaven and how their actions affected man as a consequence.
2. Typical of inspiration, the Holy Spirit is able to remained focused on the earthly matters that which man is
familiar with and while avoiding heavenly matters that man desperately wants to know. Typical of non-inspired
writings, man focuses on explaining and exploring those matters he desperately seeks but has no direct
knowledge.
3. Genesis states that morality was the reason for the destruction of man, whereas in the Gilgamesh story, the gods
destroyed the world as the result of an impulsive and rash choice and the Atra-Hasis story says that the gods were
narcissistically disturbed from their sleep by the noise man was making on earth.
4. Genesis more realistically portrays the long drying period of the land which caused Noah to remain inside the
boat. The statement that the land was dry is lacking in the Gilgamesh and Atra-Hasis stories.
5. The name "Noah" means "rest" in Hebrew, which has no direct relationship to the events of the flood, which is a
proof of inspiration. Names used in myths always have some meaning to the storyline.
a. Noah's counterperson in Sumerian Eridu (2150 BC) is "Zi-ud-sura" which means "he obtained
immortality".
b. Noah's counterperson in Gilgamesh (1150 BC) is "Ut-napištim" which means "he obtained immortality".
c. Noah's counterperson in Atra-Hasis (1635 BC) is "Atra-Hasis" which means "he who is very wise".
d. Noah's counterperson in Berossus (280 BC) of Atra-Hasis is "Ziusudra" which means "he who laid hold
of life/immortality from long ago".
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