Cultural Differences In The Holy Bible

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Differences: Individually based all stories were different by the way it is presented and culture. Starting with how the stories are presented. First, the book of Gensis 1:1-31 & 2:1-4, is presented in a mild manner, forcefully stating that God is the creator of all living things, in a way that most people may be able to read. The story is thoroughly organized, each verse ending with each day god created life. “And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day… -the second day…-the third day…-the fourth day…-the fifth day…-the sixth day” (The Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1-31). Second, the creation story told by the Indian People was more complicated and presented in a different way. The layout states facts yet doubts those facts. For example,…show more content…
In Hebrew Genesis and the Quran, the cultural elements are teaching from the work of god. Evidence found in the Bible is, “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing…”(The Holy Bible, Genesis 2:1-2). Furthermore, Evidence from the Quran include, VERILY, your Sustainer is God, who has created the heavens and the earth in six aeons, and is established on the throne of His almightiness. He covers the day with the night in swift pursuit, with the sun and the moon and the stars subservient to His command: oh, verily, His is all creation and all command. Hallowed is God, the Sustainer of all the worlds (Quran Search Engine, Al-A'raf (The Heights) 7:54)! However, the other stories are different. “The Creation Hymn” and “Theogony,” uses high sophisticated vocabulary to represent earthly elements. For example found in The Creation Hymn, the word Desire, may have been used to describe mankind. In Theogony, Oruranos, is used to describe a starry night. Lastly, In the Beginning, this story used vocabulary to describe how wildlife has contributed to the creation of life. Like the word Crawfish, to be the creator of land, and a flying creature with wings to be describes as the one to spread out and dry the…show more content…
According to the Greeks, and the Yuchi people, their creation story involves multiple creators of the world. Accord to the Greeks there were Gods and goddesses. On the other hand, the Yuchi believe that multiple animals and moon, sun, and stars created the world and life. More importantly, they believed that the sun was the ultimate creator of their tribe. “From this blood and this earth forth the first people, the Yuchi Indians” (Wiersner-Hanks). In However, according to the Hebrew and Islamic faith, they believe in one holy creator. In the Holy Bible, King James version, it is stated that God was the Ultimate creator of life. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (The Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1). In the Islamic faith the creator is God (Allah) “He it is who has created for you all that is on earth, and has applied His design to the heavens and fashioned them into seven heavens” (Quran Search Engine, Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:29). However, on the other hand, to my comprehension there may be evidence of a Hell and the Devil, in the creation story of the Greeks. Hell, “Tartaros the foggy pit of the wide-wayed earth,” and The Devil, “devious-devising Kronos, most terrible of all her children; and he hated his strong father”

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