Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin. We are in the midst of a series on work.

And so far in the two previous episodes, we have covered a biblical theology of work and then we

covered the subject of laziness. If you haven't already, I would encourage you to go back and

listen to those two episodes because the content here is going to build off what was already established.

I do want to thank you guys for listening and sharing the podcast with others.

I'm excited to dive in on this episode, so let's dial in.

Genesis wasn't the only creation account of the ancient world.

One of the pagan accounts for the beginning of the world was the Anuma Elish from Babylon.

In this account, the gods became weary of their work and nagged Marduk, the king of the gods,

to find a solution in order that they would no longer have to work.

That's the gods.

And Marduk comes up with this genius plan to offload labor onto unfortunate slaves, namely

humanity.

He says this, I will establish a savage.

Man shall be his name.

He shall be charged with the service of the gods, that they might be at ease.

Many of the other creation myths echo a similar sentiment.

Homer testifies to the same line of thought in regards to what the Greeks believed.

They believed work was a curse laid on them from the gods.

It was a divine punishment of sorts from the gods because

the gods hated mankind so they made man work. There are many other examples we could give,

but the pagans, or to the pagans, work was undignified and ignoble. But this couldn't be any more

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