The question that makes fundies hostile

[Brian37]

@ missluckie26, I researched about God through Strong's Concordance, very reliable for the Hebrew and Greek meanings and application.

The Allah works come from my pastor, very good researcher and teacher, extremely intelligent man. It could take some time to get his reference work.
The Asherah comes from scripture, God Himself sad to destroy the Asherah goddess, why would He have done this if she were real and His wife.
Doing a study of the Middle East religions you have to separate, them from one another, most had become a combination of the various religions, the Israelites were doing this as well as anyone else, this is why God continually punished them. The OT Bible is the real form of Judaism, the relationship between the Israelites and God.
History shows what the mixture of the worship of God and the other religions, Baal, Asherah and ect., looked like. History shows what the real Baal and Asherah worship was about. We have to keep all this separate to be able to understand religion in that are in those days.

GC

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Allah as moon god

"Allah is moon god nonsense"

I never said that they worshiped the moon, I'm saying the took a combination of the OT and the moon god worship, those parts they chose and made a new religion from the combination. I understand they believe they worship the God of Judaism, the reality of it is they combined two religions to make the one they liked. This in no way resembles what the Israelites and Christians do, we worship God for who He is, not for what we want Him to be, though I know Christians that try and make God into what they want. We do not choose God as other religions do, God chooses us.

Gc

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Yeah! Those crazy Israelites! Had they only done a better job of genocide we would not have to be having a discussion on the internet over what God's name is!

Perhaps if they'd had access to the same tech the Germans had in WW2 they would have been able to do a better job. Smashing babies heads against rocks is a lamentably inefficient way to wipe out an entire civilisation.

You might not like what the Bible reveals to us, but it really doesn't matter, you can't change what happened nor why it happened. You are like so many others in today's Christianity you want to worship a god you can make up, not the One who reveals Himself to the world through scripture and His life as a human being. You blind yourself to His goodness and true nature through your idea of who He should be according to you, you worship the wrong God when you do such a thing.

GC
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Interpreted differently is a cop out. El, Baal and Ashura were gods in polytheism which got incorporated into the bible.

The Hebrews simply created a new splinter sect of the old polytheism.

There was never a Baal but there also was never a Yahweh, just like the sun was never a god. There are merely humans who make this crap up and compete with each other over whose superstition is real.

The Hebrews merely took the polytheism and streamlined it into one god.