If the Bible gives us true and actual records of
events it is reasonable to expect that the people at the
time of those happenings would have some record of them
in either written or oral form. Consider a few of those
things recorded in the scripture and compare them with
human history and lore.
I. Traditions of Creation.
A. Greek mythology represents Prometheusas molding the
first human beings of clay and giving them life by means
of fire, stolen from heaven. Sound like a borrowed
story?
B. Peruvian Indians referred to the first man as ‘Alpa
Camasca’ or animated earth.
C. Mandans, a North American Indian Tribe, The Great
Spirit formed two figures of clay and animated them with
the breath of His mouth. One was called First man and
the other ‘Companion’
D. Otahuitos, another Indian Tribe, ‘God made man of red
earth.’ {Adam means ‘ruddy’}
E. Dyacks of Borneo said He made man of the dust of the
earth.
II. Lineage of Patriarchs before the flood. The
Bible tells us of a lineage of ten patriarchs from Adam
to Noah. It would have seemed strange
if the descendants of his three sons didn’t know about
them.
A. Assyrian monuments tell of ten kings before the
flood.
B. Legends of the Parsees of India tell of nine
‘Brahmadikas’ and Brahma who are called ‘the ten
fathers.’
C. Chinese count ten emperors who reigned before
recorded history.
III. The Deluge.
A. The Egyptian Tradition: The sun god Ra became so
disgusted with the human race he determined to
exterminate them.
B. The Chaldean Story; Kronos appeared to Xisthruthrus.
Told him to build a huge boat. Following the flood he
sent out some birds that failed to come back after the
third time.
C. According to Hindu Legend: there are many points of
commonality except in their version the flood lasts for
several years.
D. Chinese tradition: Depicted in plaster in the Temple
of 800 gods. Kwan Lin, Goddess of mercy looks down upon
lonely Fu-He is in an ark among raging waves. Dove with
olive branch flies toward vessel.
E. Mexico: Explorer, Von Humboldt told of five tribes in
Mexico with paintings of a deluge at the time of one
they called Cox- Cox.
F. Among the Fiji Islanders: After the Islands
were peopled, a huge rain caused the oceans to rise but
two canoes came rowed by one of the gods and saved eight
of the people.
IV. Joshua’s long day. Josh 10:12 Then
spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou
still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of
Ajalon.
Josh 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So
the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted
not to go down about a whole day.
Josh 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or
after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a
man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
A. Greece: Herodotus wrote that Egyptian
priests told him of a day in which the sun rose twice in
the west.
B. China: In the essays of Huainan, Tzu told of a long
day in which the Duke of Yang needed more time to win a
battle.
C. India: Legends of a time when the sun stood still to
listen to the pious chants of Akroon about Krishna.
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