(April 15, 2013 at 6:12 pm)Tex Wrote:What was it that Abraham believed in?(April 15, 2013 at 4:57 pm)pocaracas Wrote: How does all this measure up with the account of Abraham? You know, the guy that started all the "abrahamic" religions...
Abraham had more specific knowledge that was not the self-evident that is required. God revealed to him more. This isn't a problem, but nothing that God reveals actually increases Abraham's faith. The communication between God and Abraham didn't start Abraham's belief. The communication was given so that the world could be shaped in a particular way.
God revealed to a guy that was a believer anyway. He could reveal knowledge because it would be in accordance with Abraham's will rather than force it against itself.
Why would he believe in that one particular deity, when it hadn't yet showed itself to anyone... except the 2 castaways... who came... how far before this Abraham character?
But, at the time, if we are to accept Archeology, there were other civilizations with other gods already ingrained into the people.... and lo and behold, one of those civilizations was in Mesopotamia, where lived the Summerians, Babylonians, Akkadians and Assyrians... and they had a polytheistic religion, where three gods were on top of the hierarchy and, guess what?.... one of them was the god father Anu or An ( major roles are as an authority figure, decision-maker and progenitor)... I keep wondering what the "sat" prefix must have meant for the Assyrians... Sat-An...
