Topic > The Bible: An Introduction to the Bible - 1526

It has been difficult to accept that Adam and Eve never existed; there were no apples, no snakes, no temptations. How is it possible for a snake to talk? I have learned that when studying the Bible you need to be skeptical and be analytical. Before the creation accounts, the Enuma Elish existed. This story is a Babylonian mythical interpretation of creation. This story is about Marduk, leader of the Gods and Goddesses of good, and Tiamant, leader of the forces of evil, and this great battle. There was a great battle in which the good Gods won, but the evil force was still present in creation. The Enuma Elish was an important tale because it led the Jews to write the story of creation. The story of the Enuma Elish is fiction, but it is interesting to learn about the creation through the perspective of another culture. While Catholicism has ten acts of creation, Hebrew has six days of creation. Up until this point, the only accounts of creation I was aware of were through Evolution and the book of