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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1505128" data-attributes="member: 2189">Me too.  But were we taught that Israel was a polytheistic culture, shown the improper translations to understand it or were we taught the idea they believed in one god and therefore we were to accept the idea of just one god too?Seems to me when one learns the dripping polytheism of the Old Testament, the dogmatic literalism flies out the window and things like the creation story, the Flood story and even the fall of man among other things become myth and nothing more.  There may well be a lesson in allegory or metaphor but that's not history, it's just a story.</blockquote>