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originally posted by: Elementalist
The bible isn't the only references to life.
The god in the bible does not want enlightened beings, does not want you to worship or give love anything but it, and does not want you to see your highest maximum.
That was enough for me to quit reading and continue life ignoring such an ignorant god.
Whatever enlightenment maybe to people,it sounds better then this god who showed up.
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: undo
I don't understand. If the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was all about sexual knowing, then why did the Elohim say this:
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever
Were the Elohim engaging in sexual knowledge of good and evil too? Were they having good sex and bad, or naughty, sex?
Satan (the guy who condemned the human race to a shortened life span)
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Yahweh and the gods of Canaan
Scholars agree that the Israelite community arose peacefully and internally in the highlands of Canaan[16]–in the words of archaeologist William Dever, "most of those who came to call themselves Israelites … were or had been indigenous Canaanites"–[17][Notes 2] and that Israelite religion accordingly emerged gradually from a Canaanite milieu.[18]
The chief of the Canaanite gods was El, described as "the kind, the compassionate," "the creator of creatures"; he lived in a tent on a mountain, from whose base originated all the fresh waters of the world, and there he presided over the Assembly of the Gods. The goddess Asherah was his consort, and the two made up the top tier of the pantheon.[20] The second tier was made up of their children, the divine assembly of the "seventy sons of Athirat" (another name of Asherah).[21] Prominent in this group was Baal, with his home on Mount Zaphon; he gradually became the dominant deity, so that El became the executive power and Baal the military power in the cosmos.[22] His sphere was the thunderstorm with its life-giving rains, so that he was also a fertility god, although not quite the fertility god.[23] The third tier was made up of comparatively minor craftsman and trader deities, and the fourth and final tier of divine messengers and the like.[21]
El, not Yahweh, was the original "God of Israel"–the word "Israel" is based on the name El rather than Yahweh.[24] Yahweh, the southern warrior-god, joining the Canaanite pantheon headed by El and in time El and Yahweh were identified, with El's name becoming a generic term for "god".[20]A significant biblical text in this regard is Deuteronomy 32:8–9, in which the sons of El, including Yahweh, each receives his own nation:[24]
When the Most High (Elyon, i.e., El) gave the nations their inheritance
When he separated humanity
He fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of divine beings;
For Yahweh's portion is his people
Jacob his allotted heritage.[Notes 3]
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: undo
Satan (the guy who condemned the human race to a shortened life span)
Do you think that this is the same guy who, again, shortened the life of man after the flood?
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
originally posted by: ItalianDressing
I am a tad confused. According to this post, who then is the "good God"? Satan or the serpent? Interesting read.
ID