Is God really a volcano

[KichigaiNeko]

We could always hold out hope for a time machine, lol. The generalities of how beliefs regarding that deity converged and changed over time aren't a complete mystery, but whatever the driving factor behind it's genesis was it's likely lost to time. We have some solid examples of the winnowing of pantheons and the emergence of monotheism within some ancient cultures, but the people who would eventually become what we call Hebrew is just not one of them.

But weren't they Canaanites?? They never left the Levant! According to current archaeological evidence.

I am thinking that like so much of the old and new "Testaments" the babble is nothing more than a patch work of oral stories that passed as history that were finally written down ...hence "holy writ" Ergo to the illiterate of that time they "Were wondrous decrees from the gods" and only the non-cognitive of god could decipher them!

I haven't even gotten to the CURRENT (2012) Illiterate who are incapable (after 12 years of schooling) of understanding them or their origins.