(March 13, 2014 at 12:36 pm)Tonus Wrote:(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 OT when they re-rolled his character and he wound up with a low value for STR.
That's got to be why he's eventually claimed to be all powerful/present/knowing. Originally he wasn't, but if you want people to follow your god over others, he has to be more powerful. You have to make him infallible too, on top of that.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
