Christian Creation Story Borrowed?

The creation story found in the Holy Bible  is very similar to Egyptian creation myths.  The common thread between the two is waters of chaos, sky, earth, and moisture.  The difference being that each of these things according to Egyptian myths is that they were deities in and of themselves representing physical aspects of the universe.  Nut for sky, Geb the earth, Shu representing dry air and separated the sky and earth, Nun the waters of chaos, Tefnut moisture such as rain, dew, etc. 

Other than the difference of the Egyptian gods representing physical aspects the stories read very similar to each other.  Other similarities can be found between the Jewish/Christian beliefs such as upon death a persons life is evaluated on a balance scale in order for the deceased to be able to pass on to a form of heaven.  The Egyptian deity Horus compares to the Christian St. Peter?

 Myths from Mesopotamia should be included in the Genesis myth stories, namely, the Tree of Life in Gen. 3:22. Clay tablets found in Sumeria show drawings of the Tree of Life as depicted from 2,500 BCE.  Of course many are aware that the Mesopotamians had a flood story comparable to that found in the Christian Bible.  It was the story of a Mesopotamian hero named Gilgamesh.

The Egyptian god Atum emerged from Nun the primeval waters.  A variety of myths relate how animals and man were made from clay very similarly to the story in the Bible. 

What is the significance of the parallels between the Egyptian myths and the stories as told in Genesis?

It eliminates the uniqueness of the Bible for one thing.  It puts in question the literalness of the Bible which some Christians claim it to be.  The earth is no longer 6000 years old, there was no flood, Jericos walls did not fall down when horns blew and soldiers shouted, David did not slay Goliath, Moses did not lead the Jews through the desert for forty years.  If one thing is not true the whole book possibly is not true. 

The Snake Was Innocent

The snake got a bad rap for telling the truth about the tree of knowledge about good and evil.

The whole garden thing is strange.  Here we have a God who creates man in his own image( whatever that means) in order to have company and tend his garden.  Then woman is created out of clay or out of the man's rib in order to keep the man company.  They are to tend the garden and worship God and not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge.  What else they do is a big question for without knowledge they are automatons made out of clay that do simple tasks without any clothes on.  Without knowledge they have no prejudices, shame, or any other emotions evidently. God is vain and cannot stand being disobeyed, for when he finds out Eve has eaten fruit of the tree, and encouraged Adam to also eat of the tree, he blows his stack and banishes the two, now knowledgeable, simpletons from the garden and from the two trees, one giving life and one giving knowledge.  The snake has to suffer kicks and slithering on his belly for the rest of its existence for telling the truth.  Adam and Eve did not die that same day as they had been warned. 

Apparently the great knowledge that they acquired was that they were naked.  Some great revelation!  What constituted good and evil at that time?  They were not in contact with any others, except animals.  The Ten Commandments hadn't been introduced yet.  Without neighbors there was nothing to covet.  So what was this good and evil that was to be avoided?  Was the knowledge that they acquired awareness of self?  Becoming self determining individuals?  One thing is sure they are now on their own, able to worship, or not,  gods of their own.