Reply #12: If "the" bible were literally true, then we'd all have a common story... [View All]

[Ian David]

At least, up until The Tower of Babel, anyway.

In other words, we should all share a common history (including creation) up until that point.

At the very least, they should have much more in common than they do.

The only points after which our histories and myths should diverge would be after Noah's flood or The Tower of Babel. Everything before then should be in agreement-- if "the" bible was the literal truth.

And if I'm not mistaken, the Hebrew / Judeo / pre-christian tribes were not the first to invent a written language, either.

What could have happened?

Gawd wiped everyone's memory clean at some point and only the Judeo-Christian tribes go to keep their memory of "real" history?