(The Bible: Old Testament, 547). ... The Hebrew God created man in his own image (The Old Testament, 546) which meant that God thought very highly of man. The Hebrew's God loves man; after all he did make him ruler of everything on land and in the sea in the air. ... Marduk defeated and killed Tiamat (the sea), then split her in two. ... In the Bible: Old Testament, man was created to tend to God's creation and make more humans. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It the next few chapters of Genesis it tells about the fall of man and what is known as the perished kingdom. ... In doing this the bond between man and God was broken on a vertical scale. ... After convincing the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people go, they reached the sea and the Egyptians began to chase after them. Moses parted the sea for them to cross and it then collapsed on all the Egyptians. ... The Old Testament is only half the story. ...

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Both are God's Word for Man, but have a different interpretation of accounts. ... In the Bible, the Apostles wrote Noah's story in a way that showed him, as not only a man of good faith, but the only man of good faith. ... Yes, and not only man but every beast and creeping thing, even the birds of the air for I regret that I ever made them.... The main differences being, that Noah was depicted as a fearful man who pleaded with others to listen to him and obey him. ... Returning him back to his mother to be nursed until he reached an older age, he was then adopted by the Pharaoh'...

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It tells about the first gods Aspu (the primordial waters under the earth) and Tiamat (the personification of the sea) and their succession by their own offspring. Their offspring were younger and stronger than the older gods. ... Some tribes settled into Upper Egypt and others closer to the Mediterranean Sea in Lower Egypt. ... It then goes into a detailed account of the creation of man. ... He creates man to have domination over all the creatures of the earth. ...

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The first five books of the Old Testament written by Moses, (the five chapters of the Torah), are collectively one book called the Torah. ... In the book of Genesis, man fell from God's grace by defying the rules God set forth for man to abide by. ... God provided man with a beautiful Garden to live in, but sent man from it when he sinned against God. ... Again God provided for his people when they needed food, he provided manna for them to eat, and later parted the Red Sea so that they may escape the Egyptians. ... Only through Jesus, the son of God, giving his life for man to be forgiv...

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Cupid and Psyche is a tale of an elegant young woman, Psyche, in whom no man would love, only see. ... Her father was furious when he found out she was pregnant and out of anger puts Danae in a chest and sends her out to sea. ... During the discus throw, Perseus hits an old man in the stands and it kills him. The old man turns out to be Perseus' father. ... Hercules was known as the strongest and bravest man to ever live. ...

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For thousands of years, man experimented with the fruits of nature with the hope of finding the key to our unconscious. Man revered these fruits as gifts from the Gods that allowed us to find a new spiritual and philosophic connection with God. ... There was a sea of possibilities out there (in there?)... to "Tune in to what you are learning." and to "Drop Out of the old reality of thinking." ... The drug began to be made for underground selling and the natural components of the drugs became lost with new man-made ingredients. ...

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Once upon a time there lived a king and warm hearted young man named Gavin. ... Both, young people and old people looked up to him. ... He was always the wise and gentle young man that she had first met him to be. ... As he looked into the ocean, the sea waves were rolling hill crests. ...

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In the Hebrew story, God saw great wickedness and evil being caused by man. Gods first design of man must have been flawed where he stated, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them: (Leeming, 48). ... All three of the stories contained one man who pleased the gods, along with their families, who survive the floods. ... It did however state that Noah was six hundred years old when the boat was needed. ... The story did not indicate any reason why Deucal...

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During the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians believed that the king was the living embodiment of their god. ... During the Old Kingdom, everything prospered and many great things were achieved during this period. But, by the end of the Old Kingdom, the Nile failed its duty and most things failed in return. The years starting the era of the Middle Kingdom was akin to the beginning of the Old Kingdom in many ways because peace had been restored, and people prospered. ... The Old Kingdom did not prosper because of flaws of nature, whereas the Middle Kingdom saw its problems through man itself in the l...

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Much of the Old and New Testaments are filled with used of metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, and pun and of course, hyperbole. ... (Matt. 23::33) "Have faith in God, I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, "go throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." ... "It would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven." ... There is example after example of this style of hyperbole in the Old Testament. ... ...

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The story of Noah's Ark, found in the Old Testament, seems to do the same thing; teach the importance of being obedient to God. ... He was to tear down his house for wood and tell the curious townspeople that he was instructed to leave the city and go out to sea so as to please the gods. ... Upon the arrival on the mountain top, each man sent out a dove, which returned because it found no place to land. ...

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The story of Noah's Ark, found in the Old Testament, seems to do the same thing; teach the importance of being obedient to God. ... He was to tear down his house for wood and tell the curious townspeople that he was instructed to leave the city and go out to sea so as to please the gods. ... Upon the arrival on the mountain top, each man sent out a dove, which returned because it found no place to land. ...

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PREHISTROIC/EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Early on, when man had but a basic understanding of himself, it is theorized that he (they) had a basic religious belief. ... It deals with a culture hero, (think Jesus) the first man and woman, a tree, and a snake or serpent of some kind. ... The key to Gilgamesh's success is a small plant he traveled long and hard for, eventually swimming (more like sinking really) to the bottom of a forbidden sea to get, only to have it eaten by a snake on the way back to land. ... The Minotaur was the creature with a bull's head and a man's body. ...

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Throughout the ages, humankind has been deeply troubled by the existence of evil. We have often wondered: what is evil? Simply stated, evil is the infliction of pain upon sentient beings. Evil, however, is much more complicated than that definition suggests. It is a complex synthesis of moral, natur...

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