Gilgamesh lied!

by Sandy Simpson 12/24

Biblical Genesis account vs. the Gilgamesh story.

Gilgamesh was the ruler of Uruk and assembler of the Epic of Gilgamesh about himself and his exploits. He was a giant.

By modern measurements, Gilgamesh (allegedly) stood 5.5 metres tall (approx. 18 feet). (https://uniavisen.dk/en/gilgamesh-the-4000-year-old-giant-who-speaks-to-our-times/)

The knowledge of giants from archeological finds has been suppressed in the past few centuries, especially by the Smithsonian, that has attempted to round up every giant skeleton found in North America for instance, presumably to store in the warehouse at the Smithsonian (https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/us/smithsonian-apologizes-racial-brain-collection-cec/index.html). I believe the reason for this is that scientists do not want this information in the public square as it defies their views of evolution and genetics and tends to prove the accounts in the Bible to be true.

Scholars love to say that Moses got the stories of Adam and Eve and the Flood from the epic of Gilgamesh. They are ignorant of the fact the Epic of Gilgamesh was written after the Flood, whereas Genesis was written from the beginning in the Ancient World, with God telling Adam what happened before he was created. Adam’s subsequent eyewitness account was “written”.

This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God (NIV)

This is the document containing the family[a] records of Adam. [b] On the day that God created man, [c] he made him in the likeness of God; (CSB)

This is the written account of Adam and his descendants. (NOG)

Written accounts from the pre-Deluge were very likely passed down finally to Moses who compiled them. It is plain to see the different writing styles in the accounts which would not have been there if one person had composed everything.

Those oracles may also have been handed down in written form. Dr. Henry Morris, among others, makes a clear argument that the book of Genesis, compiled by Moses, was likely handed down in written form from the beginning through the lineage of Adam/Noah/Abraham. There is no reason to doubt this assumption as Adam had 900+ years to develop a form of writing to accompany the language he was created already speaking. However, the probability exists that the Biblical account had been preserved either as an oral tradition, or in written form handed down from Noah, through the patriarchs, and eventually to Moses, thereby making it actually older than the Sumerian accounts which were restatements (with alterations) to the original. (THE FLOOD OF NOAH AND THE FLOOD OF GILGAMESH - IMPACT No. 285 March 1997 by Frank Lorey, M.A. http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp285.htm)

These oracles were also likely in Hebrew.

According to Henry Morris's beliefs, the original language of the Bible, as presented in Genesis, was Hebrew; he strongly advocated for a literal interpretation of the Bible, which means he considered Hebrew to be the language God used when communicating with humans in the beginning. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Morris)

One reason is that the names of the pre-Flood people were in Hebrew. After Babel when God confused the one language they spoke and wrote, then we see the development of other written languages all the way back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Other early post-Flood languages derived from Hebrew, not the other way around as many suggest.

Then there are the accounts of Noah (Gen 6:9), of Noah’s sons (Gen. 10:1), and after the Flood by Terah, etc. So, the Biblical account is the only eyewitness testimony of the facts of Genesis and was not stolen from some other account.

On to the Gilgamesh lies from a demonic Nephilim, namely Gilgamesh:

Tablet one: The story introduces Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third man, is oppressing his people, who cry out to the gods for help. 

There is only one God, all other “gods” are false gods, demons, fallen angels and Nephilim.

Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

(Speaking of Adam) He is introduced to a female congener who tempts him. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)

Adam was not introduced to a woman but rather God created a woman from his side/rib. Also missing is the fact that the serpent was the one who tempted Eve who was then deceived and got Adam to follow her example.

However, a major difference between the two stories is that while Enkidu experiences regret regarding his seduction away from nature, this is only temporary: After being confronted by the god Shamash for being ungrateful, Enkidu recants and decides to give the woman who seduced him his final blessing before he dies. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh)

This contrasts with Adam, whose fall from grace is understood in Scripture as a punishment for disobeying God and the inevitable consequence of the loss of innocence regarding good and evil.

Gilgamesh claimed that he and his family survived the Flood. (https://www.compellingtruth.org/Gilgamesh-flood.html)

The Biblical account is quite specific of the number of people on the Ark (Genesis 5:32-10:1) and that all humans and animals died who were not in the Ark at the time of the Flood.

Genesis 7:20-22 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. The Flood covered even the tallest mountains. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

The Nephilim were destroyed in the Flood but came back after the flood, which means they were here, then all died, then the matiing of fallen angels and human women started again, case in point Nimrod and his wife/mother Semiramis.

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

One of the reasons God destroyed all animal life except what was on the Ark was because of the wickedness of men, partly because people were following and worshipping the Nephilim.

According to the Epic, The rains lasted six (or possibly seven) days, killing all the other people. (https://www.compellingtruth.org/Gilgamesh-flood.html)

The Bible records that the rains lasted forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Also, the flood did not only kill other people (except Gilgamesh and his family) but it killed life with breath.

Genesis 7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

The Genesis story speaks of God, while the Akkadian mentions several gods. (https://www.compellingtruth.org/Gilgamesh-flood.html)

There is only one God, all others are not God.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

The Akkadian ark was square, while the biblical ark was rectangular. (https://www.compellingtruth.org/Gilgamesh-flood.html)

Genesis 6:15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

The Akkadian hero saved not only his family, but craftsmen who worked on the ark as well. (https://www.compellingtruth.org/Gilgamesh-flood.html)

The only people saved in the Ark were Noah and his family.

Genesis 7:7 Then Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

As usual these days, secular evolutionary science loves to try to use other accounts of the Flood to disprove the biblical account and its historical accuracy.