RE: History of Yahweh
March 13, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 1:04 pm by Tonus.)
(March 13, 2014 at 12:30 pm)Chad32 Wrote: No wonder they felt the need to demonize and destroy the Canaanites."My god can beat up your god." The tale of the ten plagues visited upon Egypt is very similar, in that this was a story where the Israelite god mocks the pantheon of Egyptian gods with each plague. When considered that way, the part where god hardens pharaoh's heart makes more sense-- Yahweh isn't just beating up the Egyptian gods, he's forcing the Egyptian king to watch.
And yes, Yahweh appears to originally be a war god; hence the reference to him as Yahweh of Armies or Jehovah the god of Armies in the OT. He ditches the military stripes in the NT when they re-rolled his character and he wound up with a low value for STR.
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