“In the beginning God created heaven and the earth.” (Genesis, 56) This quote from the old testament explains how the basis of the world we live in today. With a snap of his fingers God created what we call earth, it is as simple as that. All my life I have been conditioned to believe this quote. Going to religious school for most of my life, learning about the story of creation. Now with my own experiences living life, reading literature, studying these types of things I still believe that this is the way that we were created. Never reading “Gilgamesh” or “Metamorphosis” I did not know what kind of stories to expect. Finding out about the history of when these two stories took place made me think for a bit. Gilgamesh was pretty much the first piece of literature that we have other than the bible. Which is my point, the bible was the first piece of literature that people read thousands of years ago. The bible is many thousand years old, therefore I believe there are similarities in these stories because they are based upon Genesis loosely.
Having such a strong Jewish background I can only agree with the bible about creation. If you look past the fact that we don’t really know if it is true at all. What I do know is that regardless of the truth it does bring up modern day problems and issues. That is why I would prefer to read and teach the story of Genesis.