{"id":241,"date":"2020-09-17T01:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/?p=241"},"modified":"2020-09-17T01:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:38:38","slug":"creation-and-flood-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/2020\/09\/17\/creation-and-flood-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation and Flood Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing up, the Bible\u2019s creation story is the only one I read. It wasn\u2019t until this class that I really explored more than just Genesis. And turns out, in a sense, I wasn\u2019t really missing much&#8211;Mesopotamia has plenty of similar stories. This was such an interesting realization to me, considering that I hadn\u2019t thought much about other stories or how geography affected them. Sometimes I forget that the Bible was likely told orally until written down, and that they developed and travelled around just like the epic poetry and legends of Old English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During our discussion, I have been really indecisive in how I view the Genesis story. It\u2019s extremely unlikely that the author(s) were there, so there\u2019s no way of really knowing what happened. Considering that this was probably an epic or mythologically-influenced story makes me think&#8211;what is considered <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">true<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">? A beautiful story about light emerging from darkness and man being formed from dust is not without value, and it doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be an exact recounting of events in order to be meaningful. Even if it is some outlandish legend passed down, it\u2019s still tradition and it\u2019s still inspiring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, the Bible\u2019s creation story is the only one I read. It wasn\u2019t until this class that I really explored more than just Genesis. And turns out, in a sense, I wasn\u2019t really missing much&#8211;Mesopotamia has plenty of similar stories. This was such an interesting realization to me, considering that I hadn\u2019t thought much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}