as someone has already pointed above. I think we can summarize it that way. A society got civilized faster than all the other societies in the world. it then decided to document all its religious believes.my issues of contention are as follows:

-According to the Bible, God only did good things only to Jews and caused pain and anger among others like Egyptians and Palestines. Is God unjust and unfair only to love others and hate others?

-For crude oil to form undeneath the earth's surface, it can take upto 1 million years for plant and animal remains to undergo decomopisition and chemical alterations to become crude oil under extreme temperatures. The Biblical story from Adam to the year 2000 is approximately 5000 years!! How comes?

-If going to heaven only happens after you accept Christ Jesus as per the new testament what will happen to Africans who died before Bible things were brought by the white man to Africa?

-How comes most Chinese are pagans or worship funny funny gods but they still progress while Nigeria with very many Christians suffer from very many calamities?

- I believe that God exists, He surely does exist. But these Bible and Quran things, i find them to be the undoings of men who were influential during those times!!

I don't know if there are or there have been gold deposits in the ME. But their actual or physical existence is unnecessary in issues regarding myth. Only knowledge of it's symbolism is sufficient.

A myth isn't inspired by surroundings. Surroundings are the myth. Cush is a myth. Reality is a myth.

Yeah, @murchr, everything doesn't have to be about me. Hahaha! But please read the quote properly. . . and even if the part in red is what you can only see, have you checked on what it refers to? Let me quote it for you.

Aethiopia (Greek Αἰθιοπία) first appears as a
geographical term in classical sources in
reference to the Upper Nile region, as well as
all certain areas south of the Sahara desert
and south of the Atlantic Ocean. Its earliest
mention is in the works of Homer : twice in
the Iliad ,[1] and three times in the Odyssey .
[2] The Greek historian Herodotus specifically
uses it to refer to such parts of Sub-Saharan
Africa as were then known within the
inhabitable world.[3]

The queen of Sheba story:

Modern archaeological studies support the
view that the biblical kingdom of Sheba was
the ancient Semitic civilization of Saba in
Southern Arabia,[1][2][3][4][5] in Yemen ,
between 1200 BC until 275 AD with its capital
Marib. [6][7] The Kingdom fell after a long but
sporadic civil war between several Yemenite
dynasties claiming kingship, [8][9] resulting in
the rise of the late Himyarite Kingdom .

Look at you murchr, quoting the Bible- a mythical text, and object of discussion and investigation, from Genesis, to prove that one of its referents isn't mythical.

Of course I get it! Sheba is Cush, and Æthiopia is Ethiopia, and your mind isn't clouded and mine is!

I think I should keep off indeed from this 'substance' abuse to uncloud my mind afterall!

Of course the discussion can and will move on. But to understand something one needs to move beyond the thing in question and at least have a workable method, and cogent and consistent argument.

It's amazing you even think Adam refers to a non mythical entity, hence Noah, then Cush. I believe the course you're taking entails a fallacy.

I think I've already indicated that the myth in the Bible is what's under discussion. And I also know that Cush isn't modern Ethiopia, and neither is Cush, Sheba! Even modern Ethiopia is a different myth.

So, what's this that I don't get? That you're affirming the object of discussion through disguise and self contradiction?