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Belief In
Marduk
As you all
know,
Marduk is
the ultimate
god. When
Marduk
defeated the
chaotic
Tiamat and
created
mankind out
of the blood
of her rebel
husband
Qingu, his
father Ea
bestowed all
of his power
onto Marduk
himself.

2. Fifty gods were then absorbed into Marduk so that
the became the supreme being. His tower was built
in Babylon, which is the center of the universe. This
is all recorded in the Enuma Elish, written around
1800 BCE, which is also known asThe Epic of
Creation.
However, some people do not believe that Marduk
exists. Some are atheist, some are agnostic, and
some believe in strange gods.
The following is a list of arguments that attempt to
explain why Marduk does in fact exist.
The Teleological Argument (Argument from
Design) -- Just look at the world around you. Doesn't
it seem like a huge coincidence that humans need
water to drink, air to breathe, and food to eat, and
here we are in a world that supplies all of those
things? Did you know that if the earth weren't
tilted just so that nothing could live on the planet?
Not to mention the beauty all around us: the
waterfalls, the rainbows, the mountains. All of it
couldn't have come about by chance. There must be
a designer. The Enuma Elish tells us that, when
Marduk defeated Tiamat, he split her in two and
created the earth and the sky. Her tears became the
Tigris and Euphrates river. Her breasts became
mountains. Marduk established order in the cosmos,
telling the stars, moon, and sun how to behave. He
set up our calendar and established time itself. None

3. of this would have come about if it were not for
Marduk. He is the intelligent designer, and he is the
true answer to the question of how things got here:
not evolution, which science cannot even prove and
is just a theory.
The Cosmological Argument (First Cause) --
Everything that exists has a cause. You know that
you came to exist because your mother and father
brought you in to this world. They exist because
their mothers and fathers brought them into this
world. That tree was once an acorn, which came
from a previous tree. And so on. So what caused it
all? Something had to, right? We know that Ea was
Marduk's father and that before Ea there was Anu
who was the son of Anshar who was the son of
Lahmu who was the son of Tiamat and Apsu, who is
known as "the first one." So Apsu was the first one,
the first cause, but Ea defeated Apsu and then Ea
gave all his powers to Marduk. Therefore, Marduk
exists and is -- essentially -- the first cause.
Argument from Morality -- We know that morality
exists. Why don't we murder people? Why don't we
steal? Why don't we eat babies? Because those things
are immoral. But where does this idea of morality
come from? If Marduk had not established the cosmic
order of the universe, then we would have no
morality at all, no right and wrong, and all would be
in chaos. We know that Tiamat was evil, not because
of anything she did necessarily (though we now call

4. what she did evil), but because Marduk (who is wise
above all) felt the need to defeat her. William Lane
Craig reasons this way: 1. If Marduk doesn't exist,
then morality doesn't exist. 2. Morality does exist. 3.
Therefore, Marduk exists. Note that morality is
beyond science. Science doesn't care if we shoot
someone in the head or not, because science just
thinks we're a series of atoms randomly put
together. But Marduk cares, and so we don't kill. The
fact that murderers are punished proves that all of
our laws are based on our belief in Marduk's
existence.
The Ontological Argument / Argument from
Degree -- This argument says that if we are able to
imagine the greatest possible being, then he must
exist. Descartes said that he could conceive of a
supremely perfect being just as easily as he could
perceive of any shape or number. He thinks it;
therefore, it is. Anselm of Canterbury said that we
can conceive of the greatest thing possible to think
of, but if that thing we conceive doesn't actually
exist, then it wouldn't be the greatest thing (since
existing is greater than not existing). We know that
Marduk is this greatest thing. The Enuma Elish says
that Marduk sucked from the breasts of goddesses
who "filled him with awesomeness," that his father
Ea "rendered him perfect," and that "perfect were
his members without comprehension." He has four
eyes, four ears, and breathes fire. He is described as
"the loftiest of the gods." And this was all before he

5. took on the power of all the gods. Such a being is
the greatest possible being we can conceive of, and
therefore Marduk must exist.
Majority Argument -- The number of people who
have believed in Marduk is impossible to count. Why
would so many people believe in a god who did not
exist? Mass hypnosis? Could everyone be that
deluded? Entire cultures were founded on the belief
in Marduk, and it was a culture that thrived for ages
and still exists in various forms. Could such a culture
be founded on something that didn't even exist? Can
something be founded on nothing? It wouldn't make
sense. Would you even want to live in a society in
which the majority of people believe in something
that has no basis in reality? What kind of society
would that be? Thank Marduk that we don't live in
such a world.
Arguments from History and Archeology -- Our
main source for historical proof of Marduk is of
course the Enuma Elish. But we can see evidence
that the book is true from archeology. For example,
we can read of the building of the ziggurat of
Marduk, known as the Etemenanki, which was built
in Babylon by the Anunnaki as an abode for Marduk,
Enlil, and Ea. We also, even today, can go look at its
ruins. You can also read about this ziggurat
(although in a perverted form) in the book of
Genesis, where it is commonly referred to as "the
Tower of Babel." Because we know that events like

6. these are true, we know that the historical book is
true. And because we know the historical book is
true, we know that Marduk is true.
Argument from Miracles -- Have you ever had
something happen to you or someone you know that
no one could explain? Let's say your friend had a
brain tumor and then one day it was gone. The
doctors couldn't explain it. Or maybe your car went
off the road and, instead of crashing into a tree,
managed to find just the right path to avoid all of
those trees until you were safe. Coincidence, huh?
What if every ob-gyn you saw told you that you
couldn't have a baby and then you had one? These
are called miracles, they happen every day, and they
are caused by Marduk. When something happens that
defies the known laws of nature, something has to
cause them. Without Marduk, miracles wouldn't
happen; therefore, he must exist.
Argument from Aesthetics -- I will only cover the
Bs: Bach, Band of Horses, Barber, Bartok, Count
Basie, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven,
Belle and Sebastian, Berlin, Berlioz, Bernstein,
Chuck Berry, Bizet, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bowie,
James Brown. Could any of these composers have
made such beautiful music without the divine
inspiration of Marduk? To think that mere humans
could rise to this level of aesthetic perfection is to
think very highly of ourselves as a species. Clearly a
higher being was involved. Therefore, Marduk exists.

7. Transcendental Argument -- Everything that we
know we know because of Marduk. He is the source
of all knowledge. Of course mankind would not be
here at all if it weren't for Marduk, but even if we
somehow were, we still wouldn't know anything. The
fact that I can sit here and logically prove the
existence of Marduk is, in itself, proof that he exists.
Here is a proof to show what I mean: 1. Knowledge
exists. 2. Without Marduk, knowledge doesn't exist.
3. Therefore, Marduk exists. Ea said that Marduk
"knows all wisdom," and it is only through him that
we know anything at all.
Common Sense Argument -- The 18th Century
philosopher Thomas Reid knocked some helpful
sense into us with this argument. Some things, he
said, are just common sense. You can't go around all
day questioning the existence of things that you just
know is true from plain old common sense. Have you
ever tried to prove that your mother is actually your
mother, or do you just accept it? Do you wonder
whether a banana will be inside once you peel it, or
do you just assume it will be? When a baby drops a
ball, does he know everything about Newton's laws
of physics, or does he just use his common sense
(the sense Marduk gave us) to know it will fall and
bounce? We can do the same with Marduk. It is only
common sense to assume that he exists.

8. Burden of Proof / Limitation of Science Argument -
- Well then, can you prove that Marduk doesn't exist?
The Enuma Elishdescribes Marduk as "beyond
comprehension, unsuited for understanding, difficult
to perceive." It would be foolish and insulting to try
to prove Marduk in the same way that you would try
to prove the speed of a falling object or to explain
how an electromagnet works. Marduk is not your
science project. He is beyond science. Science is all
well and good for certain things, but when it comes
to Marduk, I know that science is inadequate, and so
I will always believe in Marduk no matter what
science says. At any rate, science will never be able
to prove that he doesn't exist, and so there is no
reason not to believe in him.
Pascal's Wager (Gambit) Argument -- Blaise Pascal
set up a hypothetical situation where he stated first
that Marduk either (heads) exists or (tails) doesn't:
fifty-fifty chance. You have to bet on one or the
other, and now he'll flip the coin to see if he exists
or not. If you bet that Marduk does exist (heads),
then you win everything and lose nothing. But if you
bet that he doesn't exist (tails), then you win
nothing and lose everything. A no-brainer which side
to bet on, huh? Why would you want to be on
Marduk's bad side? Remember that, now that the
coin has landed on heads, we know for certain that
he exists and is as powerful as he has always been
described. Marduk will certainly not suffer an

9. unbeliever gladly. So, Pascal says, even if Marduk
doesn't exist, it's best to act as if he does, including
your belief in him.
Will To Believe Argument / Faith -- In 1896, William
James said that sometimes we have to believe in
something on faith before we have any real evidence
for believing it. Even scientists do this all the time.
They hypothesize that something is true, and many
of them take their entire lives to prove it. Maybe
they do so successfully, maybe they don't, but the
fact that they have faith in it is what matters.
Suppose you don't have any real evidence to support
Marduk's existence. Isn't it better to rely on your
faith that he does exist rather than throwing him
away just because you can't prove him right this
moment? I am confident that, in the by and by,
whether in this life or in the underworld, we will be
able to have the proof that we want, for we will see
Marduk face to face. When that happens, it will all
be worth it.
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