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Dismantlethethroat
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Velr
Switzerland10970 Posts
Scientist says that historical findings/data seems to say that a long time ago the christian "God" had a "Wife" which got "outwritten/forgotten/no one knows" over the hundreds of years/millenia christianity and its various "sects" have evolved/changed. Thats not an attack on religion or anything and if you feel like that, you got some mighty problems... | ||
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Hadron.
Norway104 Posts
There are good aspects about religion, but there are also many bad ones. | ||
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
It is not too surprising that some Israelites may have twistedly worshipped both the LORD and Asherah, an idol. In fact you'd pretty much expect something like that given the corrupted nature of their spiritual lives. Or, they were referring to Baal, as a previous poster said. | ||
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Rashid
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KameZerg
Sweden1777 Posts
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Spidinko
Slovakia1174 Posts
On March 23 2011 21:46 Rashid wrote: Gods don't have wives or genders. There is absolutely no point of an omnipotent and omniscient being to have genders or be sexually attracted to another; because gender and sex are just biological mechanisms that evolved through the ages which enables us lesser creatures to propagate as a species. You can't know that. God works in mysterious ways. | ||
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Igakusei
United States610 Posts
On March 23 2011 21:20 snotboogie wrote: The worship of Asherah, and the use of Asherah poles, is repeatedly mentioned in the Bible, specifically in the context of the Israelites turning to worship foreign gods such as Asherah and Baal. They even go so far as to brazenly bring this into God's temple at Jerusalem. God is very clear that he is not happy with this. In fact, much of the Old Testament is documenting Israel who repeatedly turn to worship other gods, and God being angry about this. It is not too surprising that some Israelites may have twistedly worshipped both the LORD and Asherah, an idol. In fact you'd pretty much expect something like that given the corrupted nature of their spiritual lives. Or, they were referring to Baal, as a previous poster said. It's pretty clear to me that many of the ancient Israelites were polytheists, up to and including their leaders. It's apparent from much of the language of this part of the OT that YHWH was simply Israel's god of choice. There's some controversy over whether El (the Caananite god that Abraham made his pact with) and YHWH (the god that delivered the Israelites from Egypt) were the same entity, and it appears that this connection was made by later authors. The early Israelites were aware of and believed in a pantheon of gods, and the idea that YHWH was the only god appears to have not been present before the Babylonian captivity. There is a lot of linguistic evidence in the Bible for this. | ||
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DarkGeneral
Canada328 Posts
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Electric.Jesus
Germany755 Posts
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heroyi
United States1064 Posts
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Jswizzy
United States791 Posts
On March 23 2011 21:20 snotboogie wrote: The worship of Asherah, and the use of Asherah poles, is repeatedly mentioned in the Bible, specifically in the context of the Israelites turning to worship foreign gods such as Asherah and Baal. They even go so far as to brazenly bring this into God's temple at Jerusalem. God is very clear that he is not happy with this. In fact, much of the Old Testament is documenting Israel who repeatedly turn to worship other gods, and God being angry about this. It is not too surprising that some Israelites may have twistedly worshipped both the LORD and Asherah, an idol. In fact you'd pretty much expect something like that given the corrupted nature of their spiritual lives. Or, they were referring to Baal, as a previous poster said. Baal is just another name for lord it's a surname. | ||
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Slow Motion
United States6960 Posts
I also wonder if human beings are initially predisposed to polytheism. I'd love to hear if anyone has any theories on why early religions seem to all be polytheistic. I'd like to suggest a theory I just made up that maybe a monotheistic belief system takes more organization, whereas a polytheistic system can evolve naturally. It's easy to see how a bunch of myths and stories about supernatural forces can over time become integrated with one another. It seems to take more deliberation and planning to create a single, consistent deity and base all stories off of him/her. Although from what I understand, a lot of stories in the Bible were indeed drawn from other stories and myths. | ||
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
On March 23 2011 11:58 Milkis wrote: every once in a while people make dumb theories to get attention when the bible itselfs literally tells you why there were asherah poles in the temple holy crap This. Exactly this. People that actually know what they are talking about don't even respond to this stuff anymore. It's just embarrassing. | ||
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Slow Motion
United States6960 Posts
On March 23 2011 23:52 danl9rm wrote: This. Exactly this. People that actually know what they are talking about don't even respond to this stuff anymore. It's just embarrassing. Isn't the whole point of her argument and the article that the Bible was edited to exclude the evidence she found that ancient Israelites worshiped a Goddess? | ||
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On March 23 2011 23:50 Slow Motion wrote: Rather than the 10000000th religion thread, we should be discussing the more interesting point of whether Jews, Christians, and Muslims actually originated from a (lost) history of polytheism. I'm an atheist so I don't know much about this stuff but this is the first time I've ever heard of something like this. Seems pretty big if the evidence discussed in the article is credible. It's weird that you're an atheist and interested in discussing religion. | ||
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