Communism is so powerful that even God fears it
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. - Genesis 11:6
Communism is so powerful that even God fears it
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. - Genesis 11:6
Depending on historical accounts, quite literally. There’s strong evidence that Yahweh was one of many gods that gradually took on more aspects of others until Judaism collapsed into monotheism.
There’s a reason the first commandment says to not have other gods before Yahweh, not that there are no other gods.
The OT makes so much more sense when you realize the Israelites saw Yahweh as “their” god who took care of them. And other nations had their own gods. Each nation their own diety. But the relationship between the Israelites and Yahweh was always transactional: they give him worship, praise, and obedience; and in return he gives them victory over their enemies (and their enemies’ gods), makes crops grow, etc.
What makes no sense is Christianity shoehorning Yahweh into some sort of universal, solo god who loves everyone but chose one very specific group of people in a very specific time to be “his” people because reasons.
Depends on the part of the Bible, even the Torah flits between universalisation and a local deity. And later bits like Daniel definitely so. The OT makes the most sense when you think of it as Some Dude bolting different stories together and attempting to retcon them into coherence, most of those stories also being redacted by another Some Dude centuries before. Even the 4 sources of the Torah are likely collations of earlier texts/stories/oral histories themselves.
Totally fair points
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