Compare and Contrast the Creation and Flood Accounts Of Ovid’s Transformations and the Bible
Curiosity is an integral element of human nature. As early humans learned more about their world, they began to wonder who made such a fascinating entity, and how. They were also curious about how this all-powerful Creator had formed them. The answers to these age-old questions vary from culture to culture. In addition to a description of how humans and the world were created, several ancient literary sources also tell of an enormous flood that killed all of the land creatures on Earth. The Roman author Ovid included the Greco-Roman creation and flood myths in his work titled Transformations. In his book, Ovid gave accounts of the creation of the world and of the flood based on the beliefs of the Greek and Roman people. The Book of Genesis in the Christian Bible contains accounts of…show more content… In the Bible, when God sees man’s immoral state, He decides to eradicate all humans from the Earth except for Noah, the most upright of men, and his family. God commands Noah to construct an enormous ark and to take a male and a female of every kind of animal on board along with his wife, his three sons and their wives. God then releases the subterranean waters and a rainstorm that rages for forty days and forty nights until the entire Earth is flooded. The flood waters, which remain for 150 days, drown every moving creature on the Earth. After forty more days and nights, God disperses the waters with winds and the ark comes to rest on Mount Ararat in modern-day eastern Turkey. Noah and his family then leave the ark and release the animals to disperse throughout the Earth and multiply. God commands Noah and his family to do likewise. God promises all the creatures on the Earth that He will never destroy the Earth with water again. He sets a rainbow in the sky as a sign of His
