Skip to main content
Bible Q

Tag: myths

Where does it say Noah took a sapphire into the ark?

Answered by . December 11, 2011 - 5:00 pm

There is nothing in the Bible about this. However, this is a Jewish legend that you may be referring to. The Book of Raziel the Angel is a medieval text which allegedly contains things revealed to Adam by the angel Raziel. The book was supposedly passed from generation to generation, and was taken on the […]

What are the names of the 200 angels that fell?

Answered by . October 16, 2011 - 10:56 pm

This is a reference to the a writing known as the book of Enoch. Its poor content, as reading it easily shows, is evidence against it being any sort of authority. The reference to it in the New Testament book of Jude is best understood as critical, not supportive. It is one of the Jewish […]

Why are numerous major Biblical events so similar to contemporary and historical mythology?

Answered by . August 29, 2011 - 11:52 am 1

By the end of the 19th century archaeology had discovered many Mesopotamian texts containing creation and flood narratives remarkably similar to those in the Bible. Critical scholars came to believe that the Biblical narratives had simply been copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths.[1][2] The Biblical flood narrative in particular is still considered by some scholars to […]