{"id":35980,"date":"2015-08-11T06:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=35980"},"modified":"2015-08-07T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:19:01","slug":"genesis-1-compared-to-previous-origin-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/genesis-1-compared-to-previous-origin-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 1 compared to previous origin stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-35981 \" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ancient painting of Adam and Eve, with the Serpent\" width=\"370\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-420x421.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-460x461.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adam-Eve-serpent1.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/>Here is<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dustinmartyr.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/05\/comparing-and-contrasting-genesis-1-with-ancient-near-eastern-cosmologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">an epic post<\/a><\/strong> by our friend Dr. Dustin Smith, blogger at <a href=\"https:\/\/dustinmartyr.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Martyr<\/a>, comparing the opening of Genesis to earlier Near Eastern origin stories.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;while the ancient cosmology described in Gen. 1:1-2:3 shares <strong>much in common with other creation accounts<\/strong> in the Ancient Near East, it is in the matter which they differ which sets it apart and brings it distinction within Israelite (and Christian) theology. Genesis&#8230;\u00a0needs to be <strong>appropriately placed in its ancient context<\/strong> in order to be both suitably appreciated and interpreted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out his <strong>whole post <a href=\"https:\/\/dustinmartyr.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/05\/comparing-and-contrasting-genesis-1-with-ancient-near-eastern-cosmologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an epic post by our friend Dr. Dustin Smith, blogger at Dustin Martyr, comparing the opening of Genesis to earlier Near Eastern origin stories. &#8230;while the ancient cosmology described in Gen. 1:1-2:3 shares much in common with other creation accounts in the Ancient Near East, it is in the matter which they differ&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/genesis-1-compared-to-previous-origin-stories\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genesis 1 compared to previous origin stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-bible","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35983,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35980\/revisions\/35983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}