Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
Monotheism came first. God (one) created the universe. All the other so called gods are actually fallen angels and I must advise against any contact with them. They are happy to decieve and make you join them in misery. We have free choice though, which God gave us and if we want to we can choose evil. It's worth remembering that that truth that we seek, especially us autistic people, is a person - God. There is only one truth and only one reality.
Why not give monotheism a chance? Isn't it infinitely more exiciting to know that one loving Father created all of creation. You as an individual were created for a purpose only you can fulfill. You are unique and important in His eyes. He loves you more than you can imagine and is always with you. If you want to know Him, he will let you and you will never regret it as the happiness of knowing Him is better than anything the world can offer. If you spend some time in the quiet and ask Him to let you know His presence He will do.... most often very gently as a feeling of intense well being and love. Aren't we made for truth? why seek the lies of the fallen angels. Lies are boring.
Monotheism came first.
The earliest known example of monotheism was introduced by the Pharaoh Akhenaten in ancient Egypt, around 1350 BCE, as far as we know archaeologically and historically at least. All known records of monotheism occur after the 1300’s BCE, seemingly around 600 BCE with Zoroastrianism, and 200 BCE with Judaism.
God (one) created the universe.
I take it you have not studied the book of Genesis so much, given that God said, "Let there be light" and so on and so forth with the expanse, water and land etcetera, and then further more ~ God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera; and the divine council collectively referred to as being the ‘Elohim’, which is normally transliterated out in English as being ‘The Lord God’.
Also, the Greek texts use at minimum masculine, feminine and androgyne grammar, so Genesis can be transliterated so that God and the Goddess created the heavens and the earth, and as such the Goddess said, "Let there be light" and [on account of God] there was light, and so on ~ which of course goes a long way for those who have had it up to the back teeth with secular and or religious misogyny.
Further more, in Psalm 82, it states, (1) God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgement among the “gods”. So monotheism did not come first in the bible either, with the book of Psalms having been compiled in the last thousand years preceding up to the Christ event, and the last text having been composed about 500 years before hand.
All the other so called gods are actually fallen angels and I must advise against any contact with them.
The pantheon of the Gods became as far as humans account for them as being the hierarchy of the Angels, all of whom did not side with Lucifer in the rebellion, and most polytheists treat their pantheon of gods as being representatives of nature and as such the spirit of life (i.e., God) and practice in ceremonies and make offering just as Christians and Catholic do with Easter, which was originally and still is a polytheistic tradition also.
God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera;
Evidence is not available to say this conclusively.
Elohîm belongs to the linguistic root “El” which is one of the names of God. Gn1:26 can be translated as “Let us make man in our image”. Mainstream Christian Biblical Theologians have understood this to be an attempt by the writer to emphasise that God (El) is the one, true God, at a time when many other gods were being worshipped in the region.
Some scholars argue that (non-Biblical) texts show Asherah was the consort of El, others disagree, suggesting the texts refer to “El’s sanctuary”. The term “Asherah” is mentioned in parts of the Bible, but these do not relate directly to the Genesis text you quote. The form ‘’El’’ was in use in the Aramaic speaking world from at least the 8th century BCE. Text at Ugarit-Ras Shamra (in Modern day Syria) suggests Elohîm was used as plural form in the Ugaritic Pantheon.
A few have suggested that Gn1:26 refers to God and his Asherah, this has been proposed on the basis of likelihood, at a stretch, as texts elsewhere refer to Asherah, but this theory is not generally accepted. There is no conclusive evidence that the text is meaning anything other than what it says. My own view is that the “us” has made its way into the Biblical texts from earlier Aramaic sources and it shows that other gods were around and worshipped at the time of Yahweh (El).
God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera;Evidence is not available to say this conclusively.
I did not make that statement as a conclusion, and I have never written a conclusion in my life, even when they were requested or expected, given that all we can ever do is make a summation of what we know thus far.
God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera;Evidence is not available to say this conclusively.
I did not make that statement as a conclusion, and I have never written a conclusion in my life, even when they were requested or expected, given that all we can ever do is make a summation of what we know thus far.
