(May 5, 2019 at 6:29 pm)Nomad Wrote:(May 5, 2019 at 3:16 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: About 1/2 of them didn't, and there were a lot of non-canonical prophets.
Do you think you will ever take a class on the Bible ?
Genesis 3:22 "And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever"
I guess he knows a threat when he sees one.
They know a threat. It's one of the strongest clues for the early history of judaism, in that it grew out of the wider Canaanite pantheon (which included the Phoenician gods).
And the Babylonian gods. Yahweh was the 40th son of El Elyon, the chief Babylonian god.
I'm not sure they knew that, but the tablets found at Ashurbanipal (the Royal Library) in the 1800's revealed a lot.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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