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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
Since you love the Bible so much, I’ll play along. Why did the Israelites keep trying to worship the other gods and goddesses? Moses came down and the commandments include “You shall have no other gods before me”. This is generally believed that there is one particular God that the Israelites should be worshipping but it also implies that at the time, I’m sure Moses and the Israelites were aware of the existence of other gods and goddesses. El (who became Yahweh) had a wife, Asherah, and she was generally portrayed as a calf. The golden calf the Israelites were worshipping. It seems some of them preferred the female deity to the male one.
Jezebel is an interesting character in the Bible. She was worshipping the other Canaanite gods and goddesses, including Baal, son of El and Asherah, or another god. In the end, she was trampled to death, and then eaten my dogs, or so the male Bible writers wrote. Clearly, they are sending the message: If you dont worship El, this is what happens to you.
When Jacob was at Bethel, God appeared to him and he named the place Bethel. It seems that certain gods appear only in certain places at a time. This hearkens back to the ancient practice from.Roman and Greek gods and goddesses being patron “saints” of particular greek or roman villages/cities. Back then, they would pay their respects to whichever (aphrodite, hermes, dionysus) god/goddess was the patron god//goddess represneted in that particular town.
See this link: https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.c...god-of-israel/
In fact, Christianity was greatly influenced by greek culture- The Roman Catholic Church used Latin . Why wasnt it Chinese or some other eastern language?
In linguistics, we call getting to the truth as finding the “signpost”. There’s no such thing as objective truth. Even the laws of physics and math collapses in a vacuum of a blackhole and once you get out of our solar system, the rules sometimes dont apply (there’s evidence of planets orbiting outside laws of gravity and scientists cant figure out inconcievably why this is so. |
I readily admit scripture is my main influence and anchor point. I’m 67 and have been around the block more than a few times. In reading your last post here, it’s hard to determine if you find validity in Greek, Roman, ancient mythology or whether you feel that that there is a whole heaven full of deities, and the scriptures just favor one of them at the neglect of all others. Greek, Roman, Chaldean, etc. accounts have pretty much become material for Bulfinch’s Mythology. The amazing thing to me is that there is still the nation of Israel today, people that claim ancestors to the twelve tribes and a whole lot of world trouble over that little piece of land. You can chalk that up to coincide, but I look at it as a sign of objective truth that validates scripture and the whole One True God thing. Then, of course, there is this person Jesus, who definitely is a stumbling block and a rock of offense. Myths are things that may have a small amount of some kind of truth, but become, grow into bigger than life systems. It’s within the human race to love power over others- two branches that seem to exist are the kings and the priests. One wields a physical power over people and the other reigns with a spiritual stick. There are structures which allow both to rule. The scariest thing is when the two collaborate in some league to have absolute rule. Fear and myths subdue people. I think it is good to adhere to scripture because everything seems to connect to it-if you think about it, all your statements seem to bring you back to scripture either to validate something or to oppose something. I think you are doing yourself a great disservice by not pursuing truth in the scripture.. I think it’s great to question and compare and flesh out what is myth and what has validity and contrast that with various “ Christian” practices and beliefs- it’s why some of us were removed from the main sight!