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But for the rest of the people reading this thread - those to whom intentional misunderstanding is not a common theme - they saw a post listing several creation myths, and saw you ask "which of them are compatible with monotheistic tradition?" The answer to that is that the Egyptian one is fairly compatible, because it calls out the same process. Thus Judaism was able to adopt that polytheistic myth pretty rapidly to monotheism by replacing the many gods with one god. And since the Egyptian myth was still well known, it was compatible with people's existing beliefs (important when you have a new religion you are trying to get off the ground.)
Interestingly, despite Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 being considered the primary creation myths of a monotheistic religion, two different gods are called out in them. Genesis 2 refers to Yaweh and Genesis 1 refers to Elohim in the original texts. This was fixed in translation because the translators knew (or were made to believe) that there was "really" only one god, and this was explained away by saying that they were just referring to two _aspects_ of the same God. (The same rationale, of course, that later led to the Trinity.)
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I know you're not.I'm not sure what any of your ideas have to do with ideas of intelligent universal creation.
But for the rest of the people reading this thread - those to whom intentional misunderstanding is not a common theme - they saw a post listing several creation myths, and saw you ask "which of them are compatible with monotheistic tradition?" The answer to that is that the Egyptian one is fairly compatible, because it calls out the same process. Thus Judaism was able to adopt that polytheistic myth pretty rapidly to monotheism by replacing the many gods with one god. And since the Egyptian myth was still well known, it was compatible with people's existing beliefs (important when you have a new religion you are trying to get off the ground.)
Interestingly, despite Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 being considered the primary creation myths of a monotheistic religion, two different gods are called out in them. Genesis 2 refers to Yaweh and Genesis 1 refers to Elohim in the original texts. This was fixed in translation because the translators knew (or were made to believe) that there was "really" only one god, and this was explained away by saying that they were just referring to two _aspects_ of the same God. (The same rationale, of course, that later led to the Trinity.)
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