The Role Of Humans

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The way humans were created has always been something questioned in a person’s mind. The people who lived in the early civilizations came up with their interpretations of how life came to be. All the civilizations had a different take to the story, but they all expressed that gods created humans and their purpose was to serve the gods.
The Hebrew origin story suggests that humans were the last to be created by God. When“ …the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.” (The Bible: Old Testament, 547). The story later said that God created the female from the male by taking one of his ribs when he slept (The Bible: Old Testament, 548). The Hebrew God created man in his own image (The Old Testament, 546) which meant that God thought very highly of man. The Hebrew’s God loves man; after all he did make him ruler of everything on land and in the sea in the air. If God was not pleased with his creation he would not have told man to be fruitful and multiply nor would he have called his creation good (The Bible Old Testament, 546-547). God created humans to watch over his creation. God also instructed humans to make more humans (The Bible: Old Testament, 547).
In the Enuma Elish, Marduk was chosen to be king of the gods because he had the ability to make a cloth disappear and then reappear. Marduk defeated and killed Tiamat (the sea), then split her in two. He then created the world from her corpse. Then he created the hum race from the blood of Kingu the rebel god (Overview: The Enuma Elish). The Babylonian gods viewed humans as savages (The Enuma Elish, 158). Whose purpose was to serve so that the gods may be at ease. Man was also supposed to support their gods, tend to their sanctuaries without fail, improve the lands, and build the gods’ shrines. (Enuma Elish, 158) The Babylonian people were basically slaves to their gods, because they wer...