So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him..

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Function, or, purpose.​

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Function, or, purpose.​

academic christians are some of the intellectually insipid and inferior representatives of anything approaching rational debate I can possibly think of....you included.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

academic christians are some of the intellectually insipid and inferior representatives of anything approaching rational debate I can possibly think of....you included.

Straw man.

Theological noncognitivism is my stance.

Militant atheists are the LEAST logical people on the planet.

You keep proving that.

I'll keep stomping you in EVERY debate on the subject.



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[Berniewood Hogan]

The word God is elohiym in Hebrew which is plural. This is the Most High, His Son and the angels saying this together in agreement with his will that is why the word God is a plural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim#Canaanite_religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion

The Elohim was the pantheon of deities in the polytheist Canaanite religion that preceded Judaism. This is why God has multiple names in the Bible. The Hebrews combined various gods of the Levant into one.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Straw man.

Theological noncognitivism is my stance.​

A bullshyt concept.

Militant atheists are the LEAST logical people on the planet.

Burden of proof

You keep proving that.

Because I don'tspare your emotional concerns

I'll keep stomping you in EVERY debate on the subject.

The religious mind is certainly the delusional one
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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

A bullshyt concept.​

That's YOUR opinion......which really doesn't matter.

Burden of proof

Your first sentence in the preceding post was a logical fallacy. Most of your arguments are logical fallacies.​

Because I don'tspare your emotional concerns

That's because you're not 'Black'......... and my 'emotional concerns' aren't an issue.
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The religious mind is certainly the delusional one

Says the LIAR on an anonymous message board.............​

 

[Marvel]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim#Canaanite_religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion

The Elohim was the pantheon of deities in the polytheist Canaanite religion that preceded Judaism. This is why God has multiple names in the Bible. The Hebrews combined various gods of the Levant into one.

You wish...he gave all other nations those idols to worship since he would not allow them to worship him. They are not his chosen people.

Joel 2
27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

He is only the LORD God of Israel and nobody else's. Everybody else only has the capacity to worship idols until the Kingdom of Heaven is set up, until then they can worship idols.

Psalms 96
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

That was why the Most High always had one man he continued the line of worshiping The same God that Enoch and Noah served is the same one the Abraham, Issac and Jacob worshiped and along with the children of Israel.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

You wish...he gave all other nations those idols to worship since he would not allow them to worship him. They are not his chosen people.



He is only the LORD God of Israel and nobody else's. Everybody else only has the capacity to worship idols until the Kingdom of Heaven is set up, until them they can worship idols.



That was why the Most High always had one man he continued the line of worshiping The same God that Enoch and Noah served is the same one the Abraham, Issac and Jacob worshiped and along with the children of Israel.

Nope. You're wrong.

 

[tmonster]

I don't get why god confuses anyone
he is God. end of discussion.

 

[Marvel]

Nope. You're wrong.

Just prepare yourself for the missiles.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Just prepare yourself for the missiles.

Hebrews have been pretty heavy-handed with the missiles lately...

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim#Canaanite_religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion

The Elohim was the pantheon of deities in the polytheist Canaanite religion that preceded Judaism. This is why God has multiple names in the Bible. The Hebrews combined various gods of the Levant into one.

Almost, but not quite. Elohim is, indeed, used to identify YHWH and the 'other deities' of the 'Divine Council' (Ps. 82:1) . It is also used to identify deceased human dead (1 Sam. 22:13), angels (Gen 32:1-2, 36:7), and demons (Deut. 32:17).

The term actually identifies where a being resides rather than what a being is.

YHWH has several different names in the text due to the Third Commandment.

Word to Maimonides.
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[Berniewood Hogan]

Almost, but not quite.​

El was a Canaanite deity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity)

This, and other things, indicate that Judaism is a distilled version of polytheistic Canaanite religions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Judaism#Monarchy_.28centralized_religion.29

According to the Hebrew Bible, Jerusalem was a Jebusite fortress, conquered by the Israelites and made into their capital around 1000 BCE (Edwin R. Thiele dates David's conquest of Jerusalem to 1003 BCE). As a result, the Jebusite cult exerted considerable influence on Israelite religion. The Jebusites observed an astral cult involving Shalem, an astral deity identified with the Evening star in Ugaritic mythology, besides Tzedek "righteousness" and El Elyon, the "most high God". It is plausible, however, that the application of the epithet Elyon "most high" to Israelite Yahweh predates the conquest of Jerusalem; the epithet was applied with sufficient fluidity throughout the Northwest Semitic sphere that assuming a transition from its application to El to the Yahwistic cult presents no obstacle.[4]

Both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical texts document tensions between groups comfortable with the worship of Yahweh alongside local deities such as Asherah and Baal and those insistent on worship of Yahweh alone during the monarchal period.[5][6] During the 8th century BCE, worship of Yahweh in Israel stood in competition with many other cults, described by the Yahwist faction collectively as Baals. The oldest books of the Hebrew Bible, written in the 8th century BCE reflect this competition, as in the books of Hosea and Nahum, whose authors lament the "apostasy" of the people of Israel, threatening them with the wrath of God if they do not give up their polytheistic cults.

The Yahwist faction seems to have gained considerable influence during the 8th century BCE, and by the 7th century BCE, based on the testimony of the Deuteronomistic source, monolatrist worship of Yahweh seems to have become official, reflected in the removal of the image of Asherah from the temple in Jerusalem under Hezekiah (r. 715–686 BCE) so that monotheistic worship of the god of Israel can be argued to have originated during his rule.[7]

Hezekiah's successor Manasseh reversed some of these changes, restoring polytheistic worship, and according to 2 Kings 21:16 even persecuting the Yahwist faction. Josiah (r. 641–609 BCE) again turned to monolatry. The Book of Deuteronomy as well as the other books ascribed to the Deuteronomist were written during Josiah's rule. The final two decades of the monarchic period, leading up to the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 597 BCE were thus marked by official monolatry of the god of Israel. This had important consequences in the worship of Yahweh as it was practiced in the Babylonian captivity and ultimately for the theology of Second Temple Judaism.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

El was a Canaanite deity.
This, and other things, indicate that Judaism is a distilled version of polytheistic Canaanite religions.

The text is actually a wholesale critique of ANE religions so of COURSE they'd use terms that were familiar.

'Orthodox' Yahwism wasn't an evolution (or distillate) of existing religious belief, but a revolution against and in spite of them.

Monotheism is fundamentally different from polytheism.



EDIT: Put in vid to explain in more detail.​

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

subs... interesting thread premise