Babylonian Creation Story Of Enuma Elish

In Genesis 1, “God created the heaven and the earth” peacefully through His command and He “saw it was good.” Genesis 1 is a story of hope and resistance; a reflection of Exodus when God came, liberated, and shaped their understanding of who God is and who the Hebrew people are. The writing took place during the Babylonian exile, the world behind the text, where a number of Judahites were held captive in Babylonia. Their faith in God was dwindling because they felt God had forsaken them. This torment made them feel a number of ways, but two of which have the most importance: do we trust/know who/what God is or did this happen because we weren’t faithful to God? The Babylonian story Enuma Elish, their own “creation” story, is one of violence and murder. Babylonians are polytheistic and believe their main god, Marduk, became the ultimate from helping kill their father, Apsu, and single …show more content…
believes that Judeo-Christian beliefs are “the historical roots of the ecological crisis.” There is no story more important or influential than Judeo-Christian because of the impact of the story on over a third of the world. People have always interpreted scripture in the wrong way, therefore this contributes to the “ecological crisis” because people turn them into proof text to then support their un-Godly action. From a Christian perspective, Genesis 1 and 2 are the holy staples for being a devout Christian. Throughout Genesis 1, God would say “and it was good,” because no matter what element of our life He made—from the sky, to the plants, to ourselves, it was good. He created the light of earth from “void...” and when “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The very last segments to His creation were humans, therefore we have been brought up from all other creation. Adam was brought about as the very first, made of Adamah dust, or soil. God then called all of creation to flourish and called to Adam “to cultivate and take care” of the garden as God has