Is there any creation story other than in the Bible?

Answer 1

Answer

There are no other creation stories which are as old and accurate as the biblical texts. All other stories of creation came after the documentation of biblical text which were initially penned by Moses, the servant of the Lord God of Israel.

Many attempt to provided an alternate story or reasoning to the creation of flesh mankind, and all have failed because they attempt to fit everything into one eon (age) of this earth, when biblically its documented in 2nd Peter chapter 3, that there are 3 eons (ages) to this earth.

Answer 2

Yes, in the NKJV bible Genesis 1. After reading that chapter you'll find that God created the universe in 6 24 hour days.

How do we know that these 6 days are literal 24 hours to a day?

When we're not in a prophecy, God's definition of a day is from one sunset to another sunset, it isn't sunrise to sunrise because in creation: before there was light there was darkness.

Answer 3

There are Creation-stories all over the world; tens of them if not hundreds. This is because the Creation was a tradition going all the way back and shared by all mankind. As time passed, most of these stories became infiltrated by idolatry, with a phantasmagoria of warring deities. It is the Torah, in Genesis, which preserves the original.See also the Related Links.

Link: Evidence for Creation

• How many Creation-narratives are in Genesis?
  

The Torah states that it was written in its entirety by one author, Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24), to whom it was dictated by God (Exodus 24:12), including earlier events.
The Torah has one creation-narrative, which takes the form of a summary (Genesis ch.1) followed by an in-depth recap (Rashi commentary, Genesis 2:8).
When we see a newspaper whose opening headline is paraphrased in the detailed story, we don't ascribe the repetition to different writers.

But this kind of literary device, which the Torah employs to enrich its text, has been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign and divide up its authorship.

The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of the literary devices used by the Torah, which include:

- recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,

- employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,

- using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,

- speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,

and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially attributing the narrative to several unknown authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim.

See the other Related Links.

Link: Refuting the JEPD Documentary Hypothesis

Link: The creation-narrative in Genesis (a Christian author)

Link: The authorship of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 4

Every culture in the ancient world (and most in the modern world) had its story of creation. Many borrowed from each other making many creation stories similar. Many are still honored by their cultures. Indeed, the biblical creation story is a conglomeration made up from earlier creation stories of different cultures and different authors.

All the ancient creation stories that have survived to the present survived because they were finally written down in some form. However, they originated much further back in time as oral traditions. The creators of those creation stories must remain anonymous and their origins are lost in time. The creation story of Ancient Sumer dates back to at least 1600 BCE and has been dated from a fragment of a tablet written in the Sumerian language.

Answer 5

There have been numerous creation stories, not only in the ancient Near East, but absolutely everywhere in the world, some far older than the biblical creation stories that have come down to us in Genesis. The Book of Genesis has two separate and quite contradictory creation stories (Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:25), but there are fragments of a third, more primitive creation story in Psalms and the Book of Job.

Like the Israelites, the Egyptians also had more than one creation story. An important creation story that dates from the First Dynasty tells why, when the gods created the world, they chose Memphis as the capital of Egypt. Many creation stories tell of conflict between the gods and the chaos monsters. The biblical monsters, Yam, Leviathan and Rahab were chaos monsters involved in a creation epic much like others in the ancient Near East.

Answer 6

There are numerous 'stories' of creation, two of which can be found in the Book of Genesis:

1. The first story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a), believed to have been written by the Priestly Source during or after the Babylonian Exile, tells of God's six days of creation, with man - both male and female - created last of all- and then God rested.
2. The second story (Genesis 2:4b-25), believed to have been written by another anonymous source now known as the Yahwist, tells us that God created a man first of all, then created the animals and finally Eve.
   

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says the two creation stories are independent of each other, so if we mean to understand each story on its own terms we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first, and vice versa. There is no suggestion that either story more closely reflects the real origins of our world than does the other.

Answer 7

There are Creation-stories all over the world; tens of them if not hundreds. This is because the Creation was a tradition going all the way back and shared by all mankind. As time passed, most of these stories became infiltrated by idolatry, with a phantasmagoria of warring deities. It is the Torah, in Genesis, which preserves the original.

God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30). Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1 states emphatically that this is a fundamental Jewish tradition.Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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The Torah states that it was written in its entirety by one author, Moses (Deuteronomy 31:24), to whom it was dictated by God (Exodus 24:12), including earlier events.
The Torah has one creation-narrative, which takes the form of a summary (Genesis ch.1) followed by an in-depth recap (Rashi commentary, Genesis 2:8).
When we see a newspaper whose opening headline is paraphrased in the detailed story, we don't ascribe the repetition to different writers.

But this kind of literary device, which the Torah employs to enrich its text, has been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign and divide up its authorship.

The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of the literary devices used by the Torah, which include:

- recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,

- employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,

- using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,

- speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,

and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially attributing the narrative to several unknown authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim:

Refuting the JEPD Documentary Hypothesis

The creation-narrative in Genesis (a Christian author)

The authorship of the Hebrew Bible