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A History of god

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nator
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03-07-2006 9:14 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by ReverendDG
03-05-2006 3:26 AM

Re: The Peanut Gallery
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An interesting point she makes is the fact that unlike other gods, yahweh acted in human history - she also makes the point that the first writer of the OT started from the exodus rather than genesis and we meet yanwah that way.
Most of the middle-eastern gods never effected history directly so the idea of a god effecting human history was a new concept, if you read any myths about gods they never are really in human reality, they have their own time before mankind and the only way mankind talks to the gods is in temples
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The Greek and Roman pantheon of gods were constantly walking among humans and meddling with their affairs, though.
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nator
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03-07-2006 9:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by R. Cuaresma
03-07-2006 8:38 AM

Re: A History of God?
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Not all present day books on spiritual topics are divinely inspired but written as mere products of man's imaginations, and for money, too.
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I would say that we are unable to tell which spiritual books from any time, not ust the present day, are divinely inspired.
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And if the amount of money from the sale of books is a bad thing, might I point out that the Bible is the best selling book of all time?
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