Is God Dead? Series: The Great Flood

Though answered in part, the question from last week remains: “Is Christianity a copycat religion?” It is an essential question that critics of Christianity often ask, and rightly so. After all, the oldest clay tablet fragments we have of The Great Flood story are not from the Genesis account but are from at least two other and much older accounts; one written in Sumerian and the other embedded in The Epic of Gilgamesh. So, it is with purpose that we once again take up our investigation from last week, comparing The Great Flood account in Genesis with these two older universal flood stories to gain some idea of which one is most likely the original version. Since the origin of all three flood accounts is ancient Mesopotamia, and since their transmission undoubtedly began as oral traditions handed down through the generations, some insight can be gained by comparing these three stories to help determine the plausibility and probability of each story being the original, or being a copycat tale.