Adam:  Book of Enoch is only a Apocryphal book and written much later and beyond the Hebrew Canon. So the so called Watchers as you mentioned is another later interpretation of the Torah.

Prove it.  Put up or shut up.

Adam:  During the time of the two kingdoms, Yahweh was consistently associated with a female deity, Asherah.  Together, the divine couple was the main source of animal, agricultural and human abundance. 

That is a very misleading statement, as it implies that the Bible itself associates Yahweh and Asherah as “co-gods”.  The Bible does no such thi…[Read more]

Adam:  A small number of texts, found primarily in the prophetic books, assert that Yahweh is the only god who exists and is to be worshipped by all nations, but these are a minority; the majority of texts impose the strict worship of Yahweh alone on Israel but seem to acknowledge that other deities exist and can be legitimately worshipped by…

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Gene:  Mike., Yes the word came to be with God because the word was God… God and his word are one and the same thing… You can not separate you from your words , neither can anyone separate God the Father from his words either, just that simple Mike.

Poor Gene.  I’ve got you speaking out of both sides of your mouth now, trying your best to be “…[Read more]

Danny: Hi Mike,

I never said there is only one god (lowercase g)
I said that there is only one God (Capital G)

There are no upper/lower case distinctions in the Hebrew and Greek scriptures, Danny.  Again, your argument is unrelated to the question I asked you…

Who are the gods of Egypt that were punished by Yahweh?  (The answer is that they ar…[Read more]

Adam:  Hi Mike, thanks a lot for your excellent narration on the Biblical religion. Yes I too agree that Biblical religion had taken its birth in the midst of Polytheism and mostly maintained it status as Monolatry than Monotheism which is visible in fewer texts like Isaiah 44-46.

I didn’t say anything about the Bible “taking its birth in the…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

I never said there is only one god (lowercase g)
I said that there is only one God (Capital G)

God bless

Danny: Hi Mike,

Created beings are not God and they will never be God.

Agreed.  But nobody here ever claimed that created beings are God, so your statement is random and unrelated to the discussion.

Exodus 12:12… On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment o…[Read more]

Adam:  Sorry the last verse I have mentioned wrongly as Isaiah 46: in my last post. Please read it as Isaiah 45:5-7

Understood, but since Isaiah 46:9 has the similar language, six of one, half dozen of the other.

Gene:  Mike……The simple truth is that you do not understand what the word God “means”.  It means a relationship with something it can be anything that exists.  Can you understand that?  That’s what is tripping you and others up.

Gene, you’ve been spouting the same misunderstandings here for over 10 years – no matter how many times people prove y…[Read more]

Deut 32:8 tells of how Yahweh assigned various gods to watch over various nations, and (many years later) created the nation of Israel from Abram as His very own portion of the peoples of the earth.  These other gods that Yahweh assigned to the various nations were not supposed to act as the gods of those people, but to watch over them and teach…

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So you see, Adam, there was never any “CHANGE” from polytheism to monotheism in the Bible.  It is, from start to finish, the account of one Most High God, the physical world and people that He created, and the other gods that He had created and assigned to teach His humans righteousness, but they taught them evil instead.

From beginning to end,…

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Hi Mike,

Created beings are not God and they will never be God.

God bless

Adam: The above narration is the evidence of Polytheism in Israel at the time of King Josiah…  But this Polytheism was destroyed and mostly removed by this reformist King Josiah in Israel. The change in Biblical texts on religion are clearly visible in Prophetical writings like Isaiah 44-46. One such example is Isaiah 46…

So the Hebrew r…

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Monolatry and Monotheism in the Hebrew Bible

In the present form of the Hebrew Bible, before they constitute a sovereign nation within the land of Canaan, the biblical community of Israel agrees at Mt Sinai/Mt Horeb to worship Yahweh ahead of any other gods and not to make any divine images. A small number of texts, found primarily in the…[Read more]

orry the last verse I have mentioned wrongly as Isaiah 46: in my last post. Please read it as Isaiah 45:5-7

Mike., Yes the word came to be with God because the word was God,  just as the word came to be with you because the words you speak are you. Same thing applies with God the Father. God and his word are one and the same thing,  just as you and your words are also the same thing.  You can not separate you from your words , neither can anyone se…[Read more]

Mike……The simple truth is that you do not understand what the word God “means”.  It means a relationship with something it can be anything that exists.  Can you understand that?  That’s what is tripping you and others up.

once again I will explained it to you,  Ok,  please listen this time ok? ,

the original Hebrew language was a pictorial l…[Read more]

Hello Mike,

You are right in stating that our Bible certainly having the verses about multiple gods which I call Polytheism. For example 2 Kgs 23:

4 The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and the guardians of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, an…

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