The creation story I decided to compare with the two creation stories if Genesis is the African Bushmen creation myth. In this story, humans originally lived underground with the Lord of All Life; Kaang. While the humans were living in bliss, Kaang was above ground creating the rest of the world. He eventually brought up the humans and instructed them to never build fire before he left the humans and animals to live on their own in harmony. Since the humans had never experienced darkness before, they became frightened when the night came, so, forgetting Kaang’s instruction, they built a fire. This fire scared the animals of the earth creating the divide between man and animals and fear has replaced the friendship between the two. Unlike the
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It is clearly stated in all three stories that a higher being created the world. The next religious truth I have chosen is that we are caretakers of creation. In Genesis, humans are told to have dominion over all of the earth. In the Bushmen story, there was originally a peaceful harmony over the planet, nothing was above anything else. This is an aspect of the stories that contrast each other. The third truth I chose is that the world is good. In the stories, “sin” is not created to be int eh hearts of men. All humans were created equal and to do good on the planet. Humans were not designed to act for only themselves, but for their god, others, along with themselves. My fourth truth is that God is to be respected or else ruin will come over mankind. We see this in the first of the Genesis sin stories when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge. After eating it, mankind fell. There was no more peace and harmony. In the Bushmen story, we see this when the humans build fire against Kaang’s word. There was no longer harmony between man and nature. My final religious truth is that there is only one god. In many religions there are many gods, but in the three creation stories I and comparing and contrasting, there is only one god. In the Bible, it is clearly stated that God is the only god to worship and there will be no false deities before Him. In the Bushmen
It is clearly stated in all three stories that a higher being created the world. The next religious truth I have chosen is that we are caretakers of creation. In Genesis, humans are told to have dominion over all of the earth. In the Bushmen story, there was originally a peaceful harmony over the planet, nothing was above anything else. This is an aspect of the stories that contrast each other. The third truth I chose is that the world is good. In the stories, “sin” is not created to be int eh hearts of men. All humans were created equal and to do good on the planet. Humans were not designed to act for only themselves, but for their god, others, along with themselves. My fourth truth is that God is to be respected or else ruin will come over mankind. We see this in the first of the Genesis sin stories when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge. After eating it, mankind fell. There was no more peace and harmony. In the Bushmen story, we see this when the humans build fire against Kaang’s word. There was no longer harmony between man and nature. My final religious truth is that there is only one god. In many religions there are many gods, but in the three creation stories I and comparing and contrasting, there is only one god. In the Bible, it is clearly stated that God is the only god to worship and there will be no false deities before Him. In the Bushmen