Adam…….Remember Jesus spoke in parables to them, so they could not understand what he was really saying,

When Jesus said, “he called them  God’s unto whom,  the word of God came”, you need to understand that,  as him meanning that,  in a possessive sence, they were God’s people , to whom the word of God came.  get it brother? , Jesus was not eve…

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Origin of worship of Yahweh…(continued)

The Mosaic theory:- In lack of sufficient evidence in support of the theory of J that Yahweh was the primitive deity of Israel, we turn to a consideration of the rival theory of E and P that he first became the god of Israel at the time of the exodus. This tradition has been accepted by Riehm, Dillmann,…[Read more]

If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came: Jesus reasoned, “If God gave these unjust judges the title ‘gods’ because of their office, why do you consider it blasphemy that I call Myself the ‘Son of God’ in light of the testimony of Me and My works?”

Hi Berean, our Mike will not agree with interpretation of Jesus, the so called Mess…[Read more]

The Origin of Yahweh’s worship in Israel

Concerning the origin of the religion of Yahweh the Old Testament contains two widely divergent traditions. The Judean Document of the Hexateuch (J), which is characterized by a constant use of the divine name “Yahweh (Jehovah),” states in Gen. 4: 26 that the cult of this god was introduced by Enosh,
the…[Read more]

El and Elohim

The Hebrew common nouns for god – ’eˉl and ’ĕloˉ hîm – and their multivocality. In Hebrew as in Ugaritic, ’eˉl (ı̉l in Ugaritic) is a label for the genus “god,” often functioning in the singular or plural as a common noun or a title (e.g., Exod. 15:2, 11; 34:6, 14). In Ugaritic, El is also the name or title of the  Ugaritic high g…[Read more]

Hi Danny nothing is wholly true as everything was man made.

Southern Origins of Yahweh

The name “God,” “El” in Hebrew, also belongs to this Northwest Semitic literary tradition. In Ugaritic texts, the god El is creator, king, and father. “El” is one of the ways Israel addressed and understood God from an early period (Deut 33:26; Ps 68:36). Even the name “Israel,” found first in the 13th-century Me…[Read more]

I’m afraid you will never find the truth based on the historians and
archaeologist’s arguments through critical analysis.

If you want the truth, then read the Bible!
The Bible clearly says that Yahweh is EL!

Hi Danny,

You seem to be reasonable and caring for others. But don’t worry I am seeking the truth from many sources.

How mythological was Yahweh?

Not “mythological” in the sense of not being true, but rather in the sense that Greek gods were mythological: Were there stories about Yahweh’s dramatic dealings with other extraordinary beings? Did
he fight some gods or demigods and pal around with others? Was he part of a supernatural soap opera?
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Adam…….So what is your complete conclusions of the matter brother?

Hi brother Gene, thanks for your reply to my post. In fact there is no conclusion for the time being as my search for the truth is still in progress. But I am finding many answers to my life long queries on these ancient Biblical texts.

Thank you and peace to you brother…..Adam

Who Was Yahweh Before He Was Yahweh?

From an objective standpoint, then, there is no reason to assume that the advent of Israelite monotheism took place anywhere other than Canaan, after centuries of immersion in Canaanite culture; no reason to doubt that Israelite religion is exactly the kind of organic outgrowth of the local culture that…[Read more]

Hi Berean, thanks for your response to my post. In fact I have come out of all my beliefs and now on rational position of understanding these ancient religious texts.

God in the Flesh
For starters, though Yahweh may have wound up “in a realm apart”—a remote, even transcendent God, whose presence is felt subtly—this is not the kind of god that comes across in the earliest scriptures, fragments of the Bible that may go back as far as the closing centuries of the second millennium BCE. In fact, even in the first m…[Read more]

Hi Danny, thanks for your your reply to my post on EL and Yahweh. In fact I am already having this article of Michael Heiser with me. But his arguments are based on Christian Monotheism as he is also a Christian. I am searching the truth based on the historians and archaeologist’s arguments through critical analysis.

EL and Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew form (אל) appears in Latin letters in Standard Hebrew transcription as El and in Tiberian Hebrew transcription as ʾĒl. El is a generic word for god that could be used for any god, including Hadad, Moloch, or Yahweh.

In the Tanakh, ‘elōhîm is the normal word for a god or the great God (or gods, given…[Read more]

Even more baseless nonsense. Show me in the Hebrew texts the latter word “worship”. What the Hebrew says is that Yahweh told His people not to worship the sun, moon or stars – things that He has allotted to all peoples under the whole heaven. It doesn’t say that Yahweh provided these things for other nations to worship.

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And here’s my answer to it:

Monotheism is the belief that there literally exists only one deity. The Bible – all the way from the earliest OT to the latest NT – is NEVER monotheistic.

Now will you use your own words to try to show me wrong? Or will you ignore this challenge like you did the Deut 32 challenge – opting instead to just keep copying…

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Hi Danny, I am bringing the arguments on how the Abrahamic deity or the Biblical deity was formed and evolved from Polytheistic background to Monotheism.

The Formation of Abrahamic Deity

Recent years have seen substantial changes in the study of ancient Israelite religion. These changes have created ample work for scholars of religious studies…[Read more]

Was Jesus giving respect when he called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs and hypocrites?  Jesus also made it very clear that he wasn’t sent to earth to bring peace, but to bring division.  After all.

Hi Mike thanks for your detailed replies to my post. Here you compare yourself to the First Century Jew, Jesus’ statements as recorded by the Gos…[Read more]

I take it that you deny all the statements in the OP, right?

What would your current statement of belief be regarding the creation of heaven and earth? In other words, you don’t believe in the first statement in the OP that there is one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

How did the h…

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