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Although both the Ancient Egyptians and the Book of Genesis linked the creation of time with divinity, their relationship towards each other and the distinctions between the two differ. In Genesis God is the creator of time and stands apart from it. The Egyptians saw their gods as a part of eternity and the unending cycle of life and death. Ra was the God that first went through this process. He emerged from the primeval …

…darkness, life and death for the order of the earth. These contrasts were not used to maintain existence and eternity. God had the ability himself to end and begin time. Divinity and eternity both work together to create existence. In Genesis God is separated from these elements. In Ancient Egypt the gods are a part of these elements. These two different perspectives show the contrast of the ways in which man can conceive his creator.