(June 14, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(June 14, 2015 at 1:34 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Shit, commandments 2 and 3 did that.
I believe there was even a part where Moses' people were being poisoned by snakes (they referred to it as fire because they didn't understand poison), and Yahweh tells them to make a pole with a snake head and pray to it. It was a symbol to a snake god of healing, and modern day ambulances still use that insignia, and Yahweh was telling them to beseech another god for healing. Early Isrealites were polytheistic, so they believed other gods existed. Yahwists just wanted them to prefer one god over the others.
Not exactly...close...but no.