RE: Arguments against existence of God.
December 4, 2018 at 11:43 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2018 at 12:11 am by Bucky Ball.)
(December 4, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: The 8th century BCE inscription about Yahweh and His Asherah certainly don't predate the time it is believed the Torah was composed. The Hebrew Bible doesn't hide the fact that the Israelites repeatedly lapsed into idolatry, but that is not evidence that originally Yahweh came from a pagan pantheon.
Furthermore, the same name of God, like El (Semitic generic word for God or Deity) is common among both monotheist Israelites and various pagan Semitic religions. Similar to how both Abrahamic religions refer to their God as "God" in English, while European pagans would also refer to their idols as "God", because God is a generic word and not a personal name.
Wrong. You didn't read my post.... well you did, but you needed to ignore it, or more likely, didn't even know what you were reading.
You also know VERY little about Hebrew History. Practically none.
They didn't "lapse" into anything. It was an integral part of their culture until AFTER the Exile. Cultures don't, in multiple places, create statues of gods they "lapsed" into.
The finds by archaeologists in the Royal Library at Ashurbanipal FAR FAR predated the 8th Century BCE. The Sumerian Creation myth and other Sumerian gods, INCLUDING Yahweh, (which every scholar knows ... so obviously you have no real education in the field) predated Hebrew culture by THOUSANDS of years. El Elyon was the chief god in the Babylonian pantheon, and EVERYone who has taken even ONE course in the subject, knows that.
Monotheism arose "organically" (and was finally insisted on) by the prophets AFTER the Exile, when (as anyone who took one course in Western Civilization knows) the concept of "individualism" arose in the West ... a change from "tribal" (family) identity.. and with individualism came monotheism.
The ENTIRE "Torah of Moses" has NO historical value or historical validity. It's all myth. No Adam. No Eve. No Moses, no Abraham, no Noah.
The Hebrews were monolaterist polytheists ... they believed in (recognized) many gods, but agreed to worship one. They were not monotheists. The BEST Israeli archaeologists (who have the most to gain by finding evidence) find nothing to support the myths as factual in the Torah of Moses, (the first 4 books of the Bible). The Hebrews were no different that their surrounding cultures.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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