Genesis... The Creation

Briefly an explanation of the Trinity... the father the son and the holy spirit ... the Father is the creator ... the son is Jesus Christ which is the personification of the creator and  the Holy Sprit is our soul that is part of the creator.   

The word genesis means beginning in Greek. But given the fact that the Egyptian civilization predates that of the Greeks by many years the origin of the word we will never know exactly but lets look at this... 

   gen - Isis now  think of the importance of Isis in Egyptian religion.    

This creation story is specific for the Israelites, It is the first book of a bible that is filled with war stories .. most told from a defensive point of view. People that were given by God a particular piece of land that just so happens to be the front lines of the Egyptian homeland.

The Egyptian creation story

At first there was chaos, Nun.  Nothing ...then a hill rose out of the waters and there stood the first God Atum ...  Atum made two more Gods Shu the air and ,  Tefnut, of moisture...then the air and the moisture made two more Gods the Geb and Nut  the earth and sky. Nut and Geb had four children named Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Osiris was the king of the earth and Isis was his queen. Osiris was a good king, and he ruled  the earth for many years. Seth wanted to rule he was was jealous of Osiris. He killed Osiris. Although killed  Osiris went down into the underworld and Seth became king of earth.  Osiris and Isis had a son called Horus. Horus battled against Seth and now rules the earth. His father, Osiris was the king of the underworld.

This is why we have a pyramyd with an eye on the dollar bill, you see Horis lost an eye in his battle with Seth to rule the Earth.  

The Biblical story of creation.

Lets say that we understand that Genesis was written by Moses. It was written for the slaves, the sons of Adam and Eve. You should also simply note that Canaan is the most strategic territory the Egyptians could have. Also note that in the past freedom was non-existent there were rulers and there were slaves. One more thing until the Suez Canal in Egypt was opened in 1869 there was no water between Egypt and Canaan, you did not need to cross the Red Sea you could simply walk around it. One more thing, the French invasion of Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798 was met by the defensive forces of the Mamluck,  slave soldiers who had converted to Islam. Known as the Mamluk Sultanate from 1250–1517.
  
Besides the story of Moses in exodus, I know of no problems between the people of Isarel and Egypt. The problems are with Babylonia and the sea people of Phoenicia .  
 
Carefully read your bible...

.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

That would be Atum and he created  Geb and Nut  the earth and the sky.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters

Atum standing on his hill on the face of the waters

 3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
 Nut the sky.  The night comes later I believe that is  Seth 

 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

This part is going away from what I know of Egyptian mythology Gods Shu the air and Tefnut, of moisture.... the mist of the waters  and by dividing the water from the moisture you have air or I guess the heavens. I don't know, this is the story for the chosen people... it appears to me chosen by the Egyptians. I wont let my ignorance stop me... lets go on 

10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

This would be the God Geb. The Egyptian mythology had many Gods that came from this creation ... animal, plant gods, etc...
I will let those more knowledgeable  to interpret the parallels with Egyptian mythology to the above passages ... what I am looking for is coming up.  So I'm jumping to Genesis 26.

 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

see here ... God creates man and woman ... please note in his image. Now..... God is satisfied its the seventh day of creation and God is satisfied... he has done a good job ... but oops ...

5. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

He created man and woman in his image .. but hey God does not work... and he has made heaven and earth and a fine earth at that. But wait the man and woman he made in his image well they don't work either. so we need someone to do the darn tilling and all the other work that needs to be done around here.  

 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

 
there you go put them in the garden where they needed to get to work...   Oh and to add insult to injury.... no way they could have knowledge ....stay away from that .. for they may rule one day ... over the other real humans he made first in his own image. AS we all know the Egyptian pharos believe themselves Gods.

 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.