heistic God. These gods are corrupt and selfish. They are based on sex and deceit. God is neverdishonest or evil. He creates test situations for people that may become entrapped within,but God never forces them into their decisions. He punishes them for the wrongdecisions. In Gilgamesh, Ishtar punishes the entire city for the correct moral decision ofthe king not to sleep with her. God never punishes for the right decision in Genesis. Hepunishes for the wrong ones severely. Adam and Eve were punished when they failed toobey God’s only rule of avoiding the Tree of Knowledge. Had Adam and Eve nevertouched the forbidden fruit, punishment would have never seen their path and they wouldstill be living peacefully in Eden. The world was punished for their corruption, but thegood were spared like Noah. In Gilgamesh, innocent and evil were all punished alike. Justice was unimportant. It seemed trivial. In the end, a hero is someone who is admired but is abound for flaw or failure. The aspect of humanity is inescapable even to the most heroic hero. Gilgamesh will neverbe perfect. The gods of Gilgamesh can’t even be perfect, and they lack in the flaws ofhumanity. Their flaw is the lack of communication and respect for each other’s powers. Genesis has no heroes because its purpose is to establish that humanity is notperfect and can never be expected to be. No matter what kind of connection between thesuperior power and people, a single man is just the same as everyone else. There is apoint that God makes in Genesis, 6:5-8 when even God Himself is perturbed by man’smistakes.The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, forI am sorry that I have made them.” But...
