(June 15, 2011 at 3:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I don't see why God needed to test him
Er...wouldn't an all-knowing fucking god have already known how the "test" would turn out?
G'day Min. I'm not quite back yet.
Yes, an omniscient god would indeed have known ,by definition.. An embarrassment for those of the Abrahamaic faiths who actually spend any time reading history and thinking at the same time. Until the Book of Exodus, YHWH, God of the Universe and infinite attributes, was still 'El' ('He) a petty Sumerian desert god closer in character to one of the more petulant Greek or Norse gods.
Tangent: There is a current position amongst archeaologists that the Torah was written down in Judah (southern Israel) in C7th bce. Interestingly THOUSANDS of figurines of a female deity have been found all over Israel dating from that time. The implication is that although Judaism may have been OFFICIALLY monotheistic in the seventh century, a great many Jews remained privately polytheistic.
