The Similarities Between Noah And The Creation Story

In Genesis, we are engaged with an omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent God. The Lord saw all the evil upon the earth and devised a plan to cleanse it and start anew with a righteous man named Noah and his family. The Lord’s plan consisted of a flood to destroy the earth and all the evil in and on it. He instructed Noah how to build an ark, so his family and two of each animal, male

Almost every religion in the world has a story about the “Great Flood” which destroys the earth, and each teaches its followers a different story about this disaster. While the Babylonians have the story of Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Judeo Christians have Noah from the Bible. Both men save a few people and many animals. In these stories, Noah and Utnapishtim seem to have similar situations, but a further analysis shows how truly different the two stories are.

In paragraph twelve, it says, “As you might expect, it wasn’t long before Daddy got him a new name, too. Many folks took to calling him Noah, or sometimes Noah Count- like No Account, you see?” In paragraph thirteen, the narrator explains how it was a good thing that he didn’t go to school that day because he would have beat up anyone who called his father crazy. People started calling him Noah because of the raft he made. The raft was large and could fit all their animals in it, sort of like ‘Noah’s Ark’. To conclude, many people thought that his father was crazy for building a raft when there was no need for

God also told Noah about the plan for the flood, and what he was to do with the ark. Noah, his wife, his sons, and his sons wives would all be on the ark an spared from the destruction the flood would cause. Along with his family, God wanted Noah to bring two of all living creatures, one male, and one female. Brining a male and a female of each kind of creature would allow them to reproduce and repopulate their species. The last thing God commanded Noah to do was to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and stored for his family and the creatures.

The world before the flood was already in turmoil and ruin, enveloped in sin and chaos; it is in this world that Noah’s faith made him the only righteous man. God had entrusted in Noah to complete a very important task that would test his faithfulness to Him. God’s plan was to destroy the world by way of flood as the result of mankind’s misdeeds. He instructed Noah to construct an ark to save his family and all species of animals, two of each kind - male and female. All of them would survive in the ark while God sent down a watery wrath to be swept across the earth, wiping out everything in its path. Noah was obedient; his life revealed qualities of patience and persistence which made him the perfect candidate for the building of the

The story of the great flood is probably the most popular story that has survived for thousands of years and is still being retold today.  It is most commonly related within the context of Judeo-Christian tradition.  In the Holy Bible, the book of Genesis uses the flood as a symbol of God's wrath as well as His hope that the human race can maintain peace and achieve everlasting salvation.  The tale of Noah's Ark begins with God's expression of dismay as to the degenerate state of the human race at the time.  People were behaving wickedly and sinfully and God decided that a genetic cleansing was necessary.  He spared only Noah and his family, along with two of every type of animal; one

As a descendant of Adam and Eve, Noah was both a blameless and righteous man who faithfully walked alongside the Lord. Unlike the others in his generation, Noah did not allow the wickedness to enter into his own life, and God sought favor in this. Genesis 6: 13 reveals the discussion between God to Noah, revealing his plan to destroy every living thing under the heavens due to the violence that seeps in the lives of all creations. The Lord instructed Noah to build an ark out of cypress wood, accommodating the dimensions of forty-five feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. One the construction was completed the Lord revealed the occupants of the ark.

In “Genesis” there is another story within it, I had read called Noah’s Ark. As everyone knows or should know that in Noah’s Ark there was a flood. God has seen and had noticed how chaotic and wicked everything was. What God wanted to do was erase any sort of life on what we call Earth. His purpose was not to destroy human life, but wipe take out the all the sin. In the midst of it all there was one man, Noah, among them all that God had

In the ancient epic story of Noah the scripts say that god saw very evil thoughts of human being, and their soul was being misguided from what god wanted it to actually be. The situation God saw made him want to destroy all of human beings. When God wanted to do this he saw Noah, and he took into consideration the promise he had made to man as well as how Noah was a faithful individual of gods word. Many things would take place including the specific instructions of the way the ark would be built, as well as the choosing of specific animals and the length of how long the flood would last. Therefore, he chose him to build the ark and save all of the animals regardless of their gender. In this story the gender does influence the story, but not much since god chooses a man to build the ark, and be the chosen one. There seems to be no racism or discrimination of gender, which is just what god had chosen at that specific time. Less racism of gender influence, is seen since god let Noah as well as him 7 other family members which four of them were females including his wife, and three

In the bible, God saw how corrupt the earth had become. God said that he was going to destroy what he created. He wanted to do it, he just didn’t want to kill all of man kind. So God told Noah to build a large ark. Noah was a righteous man that was not corrupt like the other people on earth. God told him that “I have decided to put an end to all flesh…”pg.45 row13. Noah did everything that God told him to before the flood started.

In the book of Genesis, people worshiped one God and believed him to be the creator of all things. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, they worshiped many Goddesses and one creator. Noah was granted guideline about the surge directly from God, through Utnapishtim and got them in an indirect way within a dream. In the Bible, it showered for forty days and forty nights, but in the Epic of Gilgamesh, it drizzled for six days and six evenings.

Furthermore, how long the storm lasted is different as well. In Gilgamesh, the storm subsided on the seventh day , while Noah’s storm lasted for forty days and forty nights. Another dissimilarity includes the types of birds used to find dry land. Utnapishtim uses a dove, swallow, and a raven to find dry land , whereas Noah used a raven and two doves. Also, the reaction of one god to the flood is a key difference. When the god Enlil saw the boat, he was angry. He said, “no man was to survive the destruction!” This is a dramatic contrast to the attitude and motives of God who told Noah to build the ark to save himself. Enlil, at the end of the narrative, says, “Utnapishtim and his wife shall be like unto us gods.” Nowhere in the Bible does it mention that any person is like a god because there is only one true God. Noah is included in the hall of faith in Hebrews 11, but never referred to as like a god. Finally, the endings of these two narratives are entirely different. However, the story of Noah ends with him getting drunk and blessing and cursing his sons. The story of Gilgamesh ends with Utnapishtim moving far away to the rivers. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblical narrative about Noah are completely different despite telling the story of a global flood.

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, it is Utanapishtim as the chosen survivor because he follows the god Ea, and Noah is chosen in the Hebrew bible because he worshiped God. Utanapishtim and Noah build an ark under the guidance of their seer to bring all species of animal and any food. Utanapishtim was allowed to bring whatever silver, gold, all of his family and kin onto the ship while Noah was only allowed to bring his immediate family and son’s wives. Noah had order from God to bring specifically two of each kind of creatures and even the creepy crawlers onto the boat. Unlike like Noah, who built the boat alone, Utanapishtim had a helping hand in building the ark from skilled craftsmen, whom he showered in bullocks, sheep, and provided multiple beverages. Noah’s boat was “three hundred cubits, the ark’s length; fifty cubits, its width; thirty cubits, its height.”(pg.., Genesis 6-9) This created a rectangle shape in contrast of Utanapishtim’s square boat space of “ten dozen cubit, the height of each of her sides, ten dozen cubits square, her outer dimensions.”(The Epic of Gilgamesh,..) However, both characters were ordered to build a door, at least one window, and pitch the outside coating. In both stories, the downpour of the heavy rain flooded the land of living things and mountain, but in the biblical version the flood lasted forty days and forty nights while The Epic of Gilgamesh was six days and seven

In the Bible, God speaks to Noah, saying many times over that the world that he created has become

Noah and Utnapishtim were both righteous men. They were both told to build a boat and they both complained about it. The flood was a result of man’s wickedness. Utnapishtim said “the world teemed, the people multiplies, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour”. The noise was so harsh that they agreed to “exterminate mankind”. Genesis states that “the earth was filled with violence” and that the world was “corrupt” . So God told Noah that “the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth”. The difference here is the way that the way the gods/Gods got the idea to destroy the Earth. Since man was sinning and making all