Have you ever wondered the historical origins of the Bible's god?

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It's actually amazing that, Old Testament has remnants of politeistic era embedded in its canon. Technically speaking, Yahweh, is just a storm god, slowly assimilated into Canaanite pahtheon's chief god, El.

In time, particularly after Babylonian exhile, jews slowly started to solidify their multiple gods into a single one

genericname85 · Accepted Answer

yeah it goes way back to when people used to live in small tribes tho. people used to make up random gods to scare each other with. it was actually a viable strategy to prevent fights and war, cause people would actually be so scared of gods, they wouldn't dare to attack a tribe who's god idea they thought was powerfull. abraham is apparently the first one who had the idea to come up with the idea of the "one all powerfull god" instead of the very common limited gods who were not part of one coherent religion in many cases. then like a millenium later, the thora was made up and then from that, the bible and the quran were developed. so you see it's a long tradition of fictional ideas. never was there ever an actual god in real life.

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

Read Nag Hammadi Scripts
Ancient Sumerian Tablets

They say Satan wrote the Bible

I have never read the Bible and I probably will never read the Bible

And in the new world Translation of the Holy Scriptures

Which I have never read and will never read

But it says
The devil is the invisible ruler of the world
World under his control as God

All I can say is there is a holy war going on right now
Stay away from people with drama judgment and ignorance that's their way of pulling you in

EmmaMary · Accepted Answer

Nope... It's all complete and utter fucking  Bollox .

Drelikee · Answer

That's not exactly true. That is a one estimation by someone or some group of historians. History is not as well defined and accurate as the ones who present it make it appear. There are likely huge mistakes and accepted narratives that are completely wrong. People have not left complete records and with the records left there are numerous problems. In general the further you go back the tendency to not leave very good records increases. Most of the time people were not concerned whatsoever with making sure we had an accurate rendering of the past.

If you listen to historians you would guess that this was exactly the opposite. They have this tendency to make it seem like everything carefully laid out for us and we know exactly how things went down. This stems from arrogance of their field and it happens in every field of the stuff. People know that the unlearned masses will take their word for it and it makes them almost as if they are God. There literally the writers of history. Of course there has to be something to base their history on but the way that they interpret the street and present it to us is all to them. They take full advantage of this.

Example of of what I'm talking about. Although there's different kinds of examples but here's some one example of an example. For a long time people considered King David to be pure invention by biblical writers and that King David never existed. If that was accepted in the story historian circles. There wasn't any doubt. The pompous scholars were certain of it. They were wrong. They believe King David was fiction, relegated to theist's stories, until they found an Egyptian artifact with a inscription of King David and his kingdom in Israel.

That changed everything. That one artifact changed how we view that part of the world and the history there. Just because of that one artifact King David suddenly became a real person. Without that find no King David in history. But now t's accepted that he's Kingdom was real and that he was a real king. It raises the question. What else have we missed?

They were more concerned with the present. Reminds me of people that I see around me and that've been around me my entire life. Always concerned with today or at most their either immediate lifespan. Today we have people who dedicate a careful rendering of history and I suppose we've had that in most cultures since well before Christ but when you get back to around 1500 BC that seems to stop happening in most cases.

So it wasn't always so, that people dictated events. There weren't always convenient ways of recording current events. You also have the problem of people reporting history in a way that made themselves look good. Though pictures right the history kind of thing. Which is very real. There wasn't a store where you could go buy paper and they're definitely wasn't a computer hard drive.

I have a tendency to be long-winded and I'll probably need to work on that but I need to say one last thing. Of all the things that you can do and you can do without spending any money, one of the most beneficial things you can do is learn the history of mankind. Or you can choose areas and specialize in those areas. Just learn history in general is a great asset. It teaches you about mankind and you learn from that how to deal with the people who are around you. It teaches a lot about human nature that is useful in the life that you live andit's damned interesting. Desire at all to learn about history I'd suggest that you do it. Not only will you have this knowledge you'll appear intelligent. All you have to do is read to really exercise your mind and and to at least to appear really smart. Improves your vocabulary is and it does so many things just to read and learn about history. And you to some people will here like a genius. I don't think I'm anything special, I know that I'm not much above average of intelligence but if I really make an attempt at it I can make myself sound like I'm a writer for this history because she reads. And this post here I'm making no attempt whatsoever to sound smart. But I'm not posting, there's nothing to boast about. All I've done is free books and I'm doing what anybody what anyone of you are capable of doing.

Don't ever cut yourself short or let anyone else tell you how intelligent you are. You have it within your self to change the way that people perceive you and the way you perceive yourself. At a certain point in time I quit putting my trust in what other people said about something and I would go research things for myself and look at whatevet it was with my own eyes before I decided how I believed concerning a subject. Some of you might be wondering what am I talking about exactly, what would an example be. An example would be Christianity. Is it worthy of believing in? Is it just meth and not carrying any right behind it like a lot of most people believe? I spent a lot of time reading about that religion. You'd be surprised at what my answer to that question. It's not what most people believe. There's actually a lot to it that deserves a fair hearing that most people will never give it. But I was a Christian for many years. I have since denounced my prior acceptance of the faith that doesn't change my findings.

But that's what I was saying, and researching things on my own doing I found that I can trust my own observations of something and what I believe about it better than I can listen to any one else to tell me how I believe. Ok time to wrap it up.

strateguy632 · Answer

Awful wording. You mean other usage of same name.

If you met someone named moses you would say same his "historical origins" are moses.

Your reference to canaan self contradicted due to different name el as you wrote.

"After bablon exile" if you believe book they were exiled, believe they were monotheism in solomon 950 b. c. or earlier!

talentedclock · Answer

It's not that surprising if you read the Bible. The Israelites and their neighbors were all constantly being punished for worshipping false gods. Polytheism and nature-worship were very common back then.

Ladsin2 · Answer

YHVH is an amalgam like most of the OT characters. Elohim in Genesis is always written in the plural, and God tells Moses that he is the chief god of the Jews, not the only god. Hence why pharaoh's sorcerers were able to conduct magic as well. There was a Mesopotamian god that had a bow as his weapon which was laid down after the great flood which makes the rainbow symbolism make sense that doesn't translate to the Jewish context. Is that the god you're referencing?

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Since I consider that cultures, which includes religious beliefs and texts, are remixing/reusing the past of the past of the past... Then whoever wrote the Bible could not create something brand new.

MisterWack · Answer

I remember learning somewhere that Jesus didn’t actually go by “Jesus” during his time due to different translations and things / wasn’t even pronounced it during his time…. Really strange when you think about it.

exitseven · Answer

I went to a Catholic College and it was required to take courses in both the Old and New Testaments. I learned about the origins of the Bible ,

BCRanger10 · Answer

No, because God is eternal and therefore has neither beginning nor end.

malarkey · Answer

Your Dr. Bullshit doesn't know jack shit. It's pretty funny that you actually believe him.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

No, because, with the possible exception of Buddha, like all other gods, it's a fictional character.

jshm2 · Answer

No, as it's just bullshit conjecture, like in that video, at best.

Anonymous · Answer

No credible Biblical scholar (secular or not) shares your theory but go on.

Anonymous · Answer

I dont know nor want to confuse myself. All I know is I went seeking Jesus and I found him

FreyaRed · Answer

Yahweh vs. Nergal, who will win?

TheStaleMarshmellow · Answer

A caveman took shrooms

Vivaldi · Answer

It is said that it comes from Sumerians

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