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I blame Cyrus.
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This begs the Q what constitutes a BREAK from ancient caveman religions. How about an invisable, undescribable God which cannot be alligned with caveman images? I put it to you this was an advanced premise, even for much later religions like ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, who saw such a belief as bizarre. However, this is perhaps the only belief premise which is vindicated today: no belief's provisions, and no descriptions and images, have ever been vindicated, while none can question the Abrahamic premise - because it never resorted to caveman beliefs.
Nor is this a 'personal' God. It is the first time we find the premise of ONE creator for all and everything - which cannot be said to be 'personal'. Quote:
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Who is Abraham?
I've forgotten the reference, but the idea of the emergence of self consciousness seems very relevant to the change from polytheistic to one god thinking. |
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Abraham introduced Monotheism; Moses introduced the criteria what this premise constitutes and how it is alligned with.
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Bible Unearthed - and various forms of onegodisms are found in Egypt, Greece and Persia - and a little colony of those empires.
Actually, is that the issue with this little bit of the ane -- that it had more different rulers than anywhere else? |
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The standard factors of Genesis is MYTH. Are you saying man learned to speak less than 6000 years ago? |
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Actually, I've never heard of a god "IS"; "RA" is just an English representation of the Egyptian god and "EL" is a similar representation of a Semitic god, so you should avoid selling such baseless stuff. THe only buyers will know less than you. Try using biblical sources like Ps 82. It starts, Elohim stands in the council of El. Who is "Elohim" and who is "El"? He judges among the gods, but if monotheistic, who are these "gods"? Verse 6 says, And I (Elohim) have said, you are gods and all sons of the most high." Umm, monotheists have to fiddle with translation here. The most high is obviosly not Elohim, but certain the El of the first verse. spin |
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