... and those in his corner, other stories of antiquity with flood accounts that include sacrifice similar to that of Noah's strengthens the necessity of an extra-Biblical source. In the Gilgamesh epic, Utnapishtim sacrifices after the deluge: "Then I sent out everything in all directions and sacrificed (a sheep). I offered incense in front of the mountain-ziggurat. Seven and seven cult vessels I put in ... gods smelled the sweet savor, and collected like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice (tablet 11)." The post-flood sacrifice in the Gilgamesh epic gives us only an aimless sacrifice lacking th...

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... history of the early civilizations you find most of them have some sort of devastating deluge in their history. The most well recognized story outside the biblical account is the Gilgamesh epic. There are striking similarities in this story as to the one in the biblical account . One cannot help but wonder where these accounts of a worldwide flood originated. There has to ... and will continue to have people debating. We as a human race will continue wonder exactly what happened and how we have come to the conclusion that there was a flood of epic proportions. It seems people who want t...

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