How Christians and there god sound to me.

[Reasonable_Jeff]

Regardless, it doesn't touch upon the rival gods thing, which is part of the "many gods" subject.

Baal was thought to be a god and worshipped as one, but the Bible teaches that there aren't any gods besides Yahweh.

Isaiah 46:9–10 (RSV) — 9 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

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The xtian religion is strictly monotheistic; so every reference in the Jewish texts from which it's derived that mention a plurality of gods need to be massaged and interpreted to mean one god.

You seem to be saying that you would not have deduced that there are multiple "persons" within God from a plain reading of the Hebrew scripture.

I agree with you, one wouldn't have come to that conclusion which makes the conversion of sincere, passionate Jews into belief in Jesus and the Holy Spirit as God a phenomenal testimony to the truth of it...something like that wouldn't have been just thought up. The best explanation for the origin for the disciples belief is that they really did witness a resurrection of Jesus which forced them to alter their view of God.