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A Comparison Between The Account Of The Creation Of Mankind in the Bible and in a Cree Native Legend.

A Comparison Between The Account Of The Creation Of Mankind in the Bible and in a Cree Native Legend.

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The following is a legend about the formation of mankind in the Sam Waller Museum in The Pas Manitoba. It is compared to the account of the creation of mankind in the Bible. They are very similar. What is your opinion on the similarities? I think it is because of the teaching from missionaries centuries ago. Those teachings have morphed into Native legends.

The account of the creation of mankind in the Bible.

Genesis 2:1-3;

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (NIV)

Genesis 2:4-7:

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (NIV)

Genesis 2:18-22,

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.” (NIV)

 




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