Polytheism,

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. 

DaughteroftheKing said:

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.

DaughteroftheKing said:

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.

DaughteroftheKing said:

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.

I did not say anything out of turn. I was merely making a  statement in response to your text that you posted:

Deepthought said:

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

I will rephrase my reply. There is no known evidence that would backup what you say about Asherah in the context of Genesis 1:26. Any theories that have suggested Asherah is (or might be) the consort of God in this particular passage have been dismissed by academics. 

There is also this one too:

Asherah was once a prominent goddess in not just in Bronze Age Middle East, but in ancient Israel as well. She was worshipped by kings and queens, and revered as the consort of El, the god of Israel. In some Semitic religions, she was even known as the “Mother of the Gods.”

ArchaeC said:

I did not say anything out of turn. I was merely making a  statement in response to your text that you posted:

I never stated that you said anything out of turn, being that it is fundamentally impossible to do so when writing posts, as everyone responds in turn, one after the other. 

The problem was that you stated there was no evidence to state as I did conclusively, when I never stated it as being conclusive, it is just a matter of how things can be viewed from different perspectives ~ such as in the given instance involved the ancient west Semitic God El and his Goddess Asherah, for which there is plenty of evidence, one source for which is:

Asherah, ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably “She Who Walks on the Sea.” She was occasionally called Elath (Elat), “the Goddess,” and may have also been called Qudshu, “Holiness.” According to texts from Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria), Asherah’s consort was El, and by him she was the mother of 70 gods. As mother godded she was widely worshiped throughout Syria and Palestine, although she was frequently paired with Baal, who often took the place of El; as Baal’s consort, Asherah was usually given the name Baalat. Inscriptions from two locations in southern Palestine seem to indicate that she was also worshipped as the consort of Yahweh.

And another:

Asherah was sometimes called Elat, the feminine equivalent of El, and held titles such as “holy” (qdš), “lady” (rbt), or “progenitress of the gods” (qnyt ỉlm).

ArchaeC said:

I did not say anything out of turn. I was merely making a  statement in response to your text that you posted:

I never stated that you said anything out of turn, being that it is fundamentally impossible to do so when writing posts, as everyone responds in turn, one after the other. 

The problem was that you stated there was no evidence to state as I did conclusively, when I never stated it as being conclusive, it is just a matter of how things can be viewed from different perspectives ~ such as in the given instance involved the ancient west Semitic God El and his Goddess Asherah, for which there is plenty of evidence, one source for which is:

Asherah, ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably “She Who Walks on the Sea.” She was occasionally called Elath (Elat), “the Goddess,” and may have also been called Qudshu, “Holiness.” According to texts from Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria), Asherah’s consort was El, and by him she was the mother of 70 gods. As mother godded she was widely worshiped throughout Syria and Palestine, although she was frequently paired with Baal, who often took the place of El; as Baal’s consort, Asherah was usually given the name Baalat. Inscriptions from two locations in southern Palestine seem to indicate that she was also worshipped as the consort of Yahweh.

And another:

Asherah was sometimes called Elat, the feminine equivalent of El, and held titles such as “holy” (qdš), “lady” (rbt), or “progenitress of the gods” (qnyt ỉlm).

There is also this one too:

Asherah was once a prominent goddess in not just in Bronze Age Middle East, but in ancient Israel as well. She was worshipped by kings and queens, and revered as the consort of El, the god of Israel. In some Semitic religions, she was even known as the “Mother of the Gods.”