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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 976790" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Years ago, I was always perplexed by the hebrew words Elohim and Yahweh as translated God in the bible and there were other places where the term EL was also used. Most preachers of whom I inquired would typically give me some simplistic quasi-apologist view or in the case of one, told me I was reading into the text what by his authority he could assure me was not there. One even tired to make it out as some kind of old Catholic meddling with the ancient scripts. But as the years went by I'd get small pieces here, not much in clarity, mostly more questions but it wasn't until the latter 1990's I came across Karen Armstrong's book, "The History of God" that those questions started to get answered with clarity. At that point archeology, specifically biblical archeology became an important subject for consideration.</p><p></p><p>A few years ago, Armstrong, a former nun and now journalist/writer, made <a href="http://documentaryheaven.com/a-history-of-god/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">"The History of God"</span></a> into a documentary which helped to really open up the discussion of what it is we call god and it's historicity. The PBS NOVA series <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1051895565" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">"The Bible's Buried Secrets"</span></a>, a 2008' production, added more clarity and now the BBC most recently in it's own series entitled <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zsbwv" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">"The Bible's Buried Secrets"</span></a>, a continuing series exploring a variety of biblical subject has still further added to the understanding but at the same time may have breeched a wall that neither Armstrong or the NOVA series seemed to be willing to connect. That connection was that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, the God of Moses and ancient Israel was not monotheistic but rather polytheistic as were the people themselves and that the bible itself may be a masterful attempt to hide that fact. An attempt that fails as it's own pages reveal just as I stumbled upon but lacked the archeological evidence for clarity. And in the efforts to transform this polytheism into monotheism as we have today, the polytheism is still all around us and even with us if we know how to see it for what it is. But the BBC episode poses a remarkable question, "Did God Have A Wife?" and the answer may very well shock you while at the same time being introduced to the polytheism of the bible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 976790, member: 2189"] Years ago, I was always perplexed by the hebrew words Elohim and Yahweh as translated God in the bible and there were other places where the term EL was also used. Most preachers of whom I inquired would typically give me some simplistic quasi-apologist view or in the case of one, told me I was reading into the text what by his authority he could assure me was not there. One even tired to make it out as some kind of old Catholic meddling with the ancient scripts. But as the years went by I'd get small pieces here, not much in clarity, mostly more questions but it wasn't until the latter 1990's I came across Karen Armstrong's book, "The History of God" that those questions started to get answered with clarity. At that point archeology, specifically biblical archeology became an important subject for consideration. A few years ago, Armstrong, a former nun and now journalist/writer, made [URL='http://documentaryheaven.com/a-history-of-god/'][COLOR=#ff0000]"The History of God"[/COLOR][/URL] into a documentary which helped to really open up the discussion of what it is we call god and it's historicity. The PBS NOVA series [URL='http://video.pbs.org/video/1051895565'][COLOR=#ff0000]"The Bible's Buried Secrets"[/COLOR][/URL], a 2008' production, added more clarity and now the BBC most recently in it's own series entitled [URL='http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zsbwv'][COLOR=#ff0000]"The Bible's Buried Secrets"[/COLOR][/URL], a continuing series exploring a variety of biblical subject has still further added to the understanding but at the same time may have breeched a wall that neither Armstrong or the NOVA series seemed to be willing to connect. That connection was that the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, the God of Moses and ancient Israel was not monotheistic but rather polytheistic as were the people themselves and that the bible itself may be a masterful attempt to hide that fact. An attempt that fails as it's own pages reveal just as I stumbled upon but lacked the archeological evidence for clarity. And in the efforts to transform this polytheism into monotheism as we have today, the polytheism is still all around us and even with us if we know how to see it for what it is. But the BBC episode poses a remarkable question, "Did God Have A Wife?" and the answer may very well shock you while at the same time being introduced to the polytheism of the bible. [/QUOTE]
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