The White Goddess by Robert Graves.

The Bible.

Enuma Elish

there is no other book that compares to the bible. hebrews 4:12 says: "for the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and their marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart." jesus christ said of the bible: "your word is truth." (john 17:17)

There is no such thing as a holy book. People consider some books holy but the books themselves are not holy. The three big ones are all sick and twisted perversions of basic decency.

I find the answer "Enuma Elish" to be quite interesting. I respect everyones answers here and I am seeking knowledge on this topic. Please don't scrutinize or get aggressive, this is for knowlege of both myself, and other ab members. Enuma Elish is one of the oldest known creation stories. It is dated to about 1500 bc if my memory serves me correct, I could wiki it and find out but I'm too lazy :) I can see how people would say that chronologically speaking, Enuma Elish came before the Torah that came before the bible that came before the Qur'an. I would now like to ask this very simple question: Since Enuma Elish had been lost and wasn't found until the mid 1800 ad, how could they have played a role in the other religious texts? As far as the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an go...I don't think anyone should say they are EVIL because the inherent messege in them is good whether you want to follow it or not. I don't follow 2 of those 3 books but I don't think for one second that the people that are following them are bad people. I firmly believe that there is one true God. I also believe that He comes to every nation with a word they can understand and a way to follow Him the best they can. The fact that Enuma Elish came that far first just means that it was one of the first times that God told people how it worked in a way they could understand. The fact that he Told the Jews next and the Christians after that and the Muslims lastly doesn't mean that any or all of those groups are bad groups. Just to set a small bit of the record straight. Anyone that says that the Qur'an is a plagerization of the Bible or Torah has never read it. I have read all 3. What I'm going to say next is both quite controversial and backs up what I said earlier. ALL THESE RELIGIONS ARE CORRECT. The fact that The Torah was written with the same basic creation story as Enuma Elish but after it had been lost, the fact that so many people wrote the Bible and came to the same point as Enuma Elish and the Torah, and the fact that Mohammed was presented with the Qur'an and was illiterate so he had no way of reading the Bible or Torah which weren't even introduced to his region of the world at the time (there were few Christians, the area where Mohammed lived was tribal and led by many small pagan groups, wiki "Qa'ba" and you will be able to see a lot more about this) proves to me that God was just presenting himself to each different nation with His word. How else would an illiterate man know about some of the facts in Enuma Elish? How else would all the people involved in the Bible have the same vision of what happened? How else would the Torah have been written that many years after the loss of Enuma Elish and still had some of those facts in it? Lets stop hating each other since we are all doing the same thing if we profess to any religion, we are trying to find something more holy and we are submitting to it. That doesn't make any or all of us evil. It makes us all different and strangely the same. Salaam

Qur'an... but there's alot of insight to be found in the original bibles, especially the Bible Of Barnabas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas

Neither.

the torah actually

both