Can we do that?
Now for starters I am a scholar so I can discuss this topic as it fascinates me.
To kick the discussion off, the Jewish god has many distinct eras:
The Pre Exile era,
The Exile Era
The Persian Era
The Hellenistic Era
The Roman Era
The Jewish god or Hebrew god changed dramatically in each and every one of these time periods.
Interesting question: In which era did Judaism become monotheistic?
Oh, and what is your academic field, just out of curiosity?
Interesting question: In which era did Judaism become monotheistic? Oh, and what is your academic field, just out of curiosity?Statues of Asherah (gods wife) can be found by the thousands in domestic ruins right up to the Babylonian Exile when the Jews entered the Persian Period. The Persian Zoroastrians had a warm relationship with the Jews for 500 years and influenced them with Zoroastrianism and changed the Jewish alphabet and religion for all time. The Persians gave Monotheism to the Jews in the Persian Period. I am an author and an atheist and close to Richard Dawkins
Interesting question: In which era did Judaism become monotheistic? Oh, and what is your academic field, just out of curiosity?Statues of Asherah (gods wife) can be found by the thousands in domestic ruins right up to the Babylonian Exile when the Jews entered the Persian Period. The Persian Zoroastrians had a warm relationship with the Jews for 500 years and influenced them with Zoroastrianism and changed the Jewish alphabet and religion for all time. The Persians gave Monotheism to the Jews in the Persian Period. I am an author and an atheist and close to Richard Dawkins It's a pleasure! wow. Wasn't Asherah an idol that the Canaanites worshipped? And apparently the Jews ended up burning incense to according to Jeremiah 44? they even gave her the title of "Queen of heaven", the same title Catholics assigned to Mary, mother of Jesus (Probably stole it from them)?
The Hebrews were Canaanites
The Jews came back from Babylon’''Asherah was the wife of El (Ale as in Israel EL)
With Asheral El has 70 children - the Elohim
That all changed with Zoroastrianism after Cyrus
Your title fooled me. I thought this thread was about god, my mistake, I see its about religion.
see ya
Your title fooled me. I thought this thread was about god, my mistake, I see its about religion. see yaGood point. I remember starting threads like this when I first on forums. I probably did it at parties in college too. Just walk up to people and say, "hey, I wanna talk about...." They'd look at me, sip their beers, then find a reason to walk away slowly.
It is about god - he changed its his history
He started off as El with a wife Asherah and 70 children - a pantheon of gods
But as soon as the Persians took Babylon the Zoroastrians edjamaked the Jews and El became YHWH who is one and the same with the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda
Yes the car was named after the Zoroastrian god.
So the Jewish Christian Muslim god of today changed dramatically over the centuries and is now the Zoroastrian god with no wife and no children
The Hebrews were CanaanitesNot according to the bible, they are not. They ended up mixing with them through marriage but they were not blood Canaanites. They wouldn't be Hebrews otherwise. There was one point where they came to realize that what they did was not a good thing, so they proceeded to expel the Canaanites women they married as well as the half Canaanite children these women conceived with them.
The Jews came back from Babylon'''Asherah was the wife of El (Ale as in Israel EL) With Asheral El has 70 children - the ElohimI am reading the gnostic bible by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Myer, And some of the books (Nag Hammadi library) cover that. Can I please ask you a question, how did they come to know that such conceptions took place? And Elohim, Yahweh, etc. are just deities, they are not the big honchos as the bible highlights. I am just a student who is trying to sort some stuff out. So I am not making any claims here, just trying to find stuff out. THANKS.
The discoveries of Ugarit have revealed all this
The Canaanites and the Hebrews were one and the same.
The Bible is spin - propaganda - with very little actual truth in it and now real archaeology is revealing that
Hello Boris. Sounds like you know a lot about religion. It is one of my hobbies. This last year I have been able to do a little research on Zoroastrianism. And that has change my thinking as how the people of the time review religion. Right now, I am looking at the six-finger data and hypothesis.
The Canaan people adapted many of the Egyptian religious ideas. The Zoroastrian sky burials were used in the Canaan area, but it seems to be before the Jewish ideas and methods came about. Once I tried to understand the OT. After months and months of breaking down the bible to its root meaning. I was only able to do a few pages in Genesis. I think if memory severs me correctly, I had five different gods in just the first few pages. And some of the gods were being worshiped not that long ago. Many of the churches of those gods are still standing. At that point I realized I needed to start at the beginning in pre-history religion. I have been working my way forward in history.
News yesterday had a story of how scientists are using the clay tablets to map the area and help the historians find lost cities. They are using the trade data on shipping and other costs to estimate the distance between towns.
Of course God has changed over the ages, just like any good story told and told again with small improvisations by the story teller.
It all comes down to a single concept, which is purely mathematical in reality.
IMO, David Bohm in his “Wholeness and the Implicate order” had it right when he proposed that universal Potentials are the enfolded probabilities of the properties of spacetime itself, starting with the unfolding (expression of elementary particles which combined to form the stable atoms, as found in the Table of Elements we are so familiar with, the rest is an evolutionary process according to the enfolded potentials becoming expressed (unfolded) in reality. (Start viewing at 25:10)
In fact, Renate Loll, et al propose that the spacetime fabtic itself unfolds by a geometric based Causal Dynamical Triangulatio, (CDT). Causal dynamical triangulation - Wikipedia
IOW the theist"s Intentional creative God = atheist’s unfolding of Universal Potentials via a mathematical chemical process…
I am using the word Potential in the most general sense of; “That which may become Reality”.
Which IMO, means, “while not all potential becomes immediately expressed in reality, all reality was, is, and will be preceded by Potential”.
In the end it all works in accordance to the mathematical Laws of Nature, See Tegmark’s “the Great math mystery”
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It is about god - he changed its his history He started off as El with a wife Asherah and 70 children - a pantheon of gods But as soon as the Persians took Babylon the Zoroastrians edjamaked the Jews and El became YHWH who is one and the same with the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda Yes the car was named after the Zoroastrian god. So the Jewish Christian Muslim god of today changed dramatically over the centuries and is now the Zoroastrian god with no wife and no childrenThere is no god, so it's not about god. You're talking about the history of a concept. It's an important distinction. For example when people ask, Do you believe in God? They usually mean: There's a god, it's a he, we all agree it exists so we capitalize his name as God, and are you one of us who agrees in His existence. Most people respond, no i don't believe in your (existing) god. The right response though is, define what you mean by god, without reference to any literature that was supposedly inspired or literally written by it. But nitpicky discussions about the history of this or that relatively silly concept are pretty boring. Kinda like, did Harry Potter spell his pet's name with one or two t's.
How cute. Mike has a friend. Go play you two.
The reality is the Jews Christians Muslims etc all worship the Zoroastrian god thingy and are in reality Zoroastrians
The reality is the Jews Christians Muslims etc all worship the Zoroastrian god thingy and are in reality ZoroastriansI'm not sure you are correctly using the word "reality" there.
The discoveries of Ugarit have revealed all this The Canaanites and the Hebrews were one and the same. The Bible is spin - propaganda - with very little actual truth in it and now real archaeology is revealing thatI am aware that there are some problems with it, that is what causing me to continue to inquire. Thank you so much.
The reality is the Jews Christians Muslims etc all worship the Zoroastrian god thingy and are in reality ZoroastriansI am an idiot, would please mind elaborating on that? I would very much appreciate it. Thank you so much.
The discoveries of Ugarit have revealed all this The Canaanites and the Hebrews were one and the same. The Bible is spin - propaganda - with very little actual truth in it and now real archaeology is revealing thatI am aware that there are some problems with it, that is what causing me to continue to inquire. Thank you so much. My car won't run anymore, so I checked it. Would you know it, the engine is missing. Should I continue to look for the problem or accept that the car won't run because it no longer has an engine?
I am aware that there are some problems with it, that is what causing me to continue to inquire. Thank you so much.My car won't run anymore, so I checked it. Would you know it, the engine is missing. Should I continue to look for the problem or accept that the car won't run because it no longer has an engine? The bible has Its engine. It's called the 10 commandments (Exodus 20, among other passages), Matthew 7:12 (golden rule), Galatians 5:22,23 (the practice of the fruits of the spirits), Matthew 18:22 (forgive one another and relentlessly), (Isaiah 40:10, Joshua 1:9, etc to cultivate courage and fearlessness) to cite few. Those are the engine's parts. It's up to one to recognize them for what they are. But you'd have to have functional eyes and mind to be able to do that.