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Archaeology...Sorry No Indiana Jones Shit.
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 RE: Archaeology...Sorry No Indiana Jones Shit.
August 3, 2014 at 11:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2014 at 11:57 pm by Jenny A.)
They won't read it. The bad news has been coming out for decades. It's hardly new. Doesn't seem to faze the literalists. From what I read, I think the Hebrews and the Canaanites were essentially the same people. No promised land, just a gradual dominance of one religion over the others which solidified during the Babylonian captivity.
As for monotheism, there are indicators in the OT that god was once one god among many.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
The accumulation of evidence will overpower them eventually. They can stay stupid forever but the clock is winding down on them.
I do recommend Philip R. Davies, In Search of Ancient Israel. It was the Persians who began this monotheistic wave in the ANE. What Bloch-Smith, and Dever and Mazar before her, are getting at is the establishment of a state cult as the central governments grew. Yhwh was the boss hooter in Jerusalem...just like Marduk was the boss hooter in Babylon.  RE: Archaeology...Sorry No Indiana Jones Shit.
August 4, 2014 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 8:10 pm by Polaris.)
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
Yeah..you couldn't handle it. Far too demoralizing to find out how badly you have been conned, Polecat.
Stay stupid. It suits you. (August 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah..you couldn't handle it. Far too demoralizing to find out how badly you have been conned, Polecat. The Davidic Kingdom did not even last one century.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
I like Jenny's comment. It's quite clear that a huge issue in the OT had to deal with servitude to one god. The OT, if serving for anything, shows that the society in control at the time sought to mandate the belief in one god but of course, this couldn't have meant that there was belief in many gods. Alright fundementalists, I guess you will have to admit that your god loves to be irrelavant in conversation then, and that his first commandment is basically, well, irrelevant.
"Just call me Bruce Wayne. I'd rather be Batman."
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