Many people should ask, from where comes this god that is worshipped by many people like Jews, Christians and Muslim, well this post tries to explain its origin and many intersting things like the hate to the goddess, the Elohim, the origin of the name of YNWH. The Origin of God (Translation from Spanish) And here some quotes from the text for the lazy to read the whole text. Well, this god of the Christians, Jews and Muslim is just the evolution of the old mythology of the Jews. Nothing else.
It is explanation of the origin of god. It is that god is just the evolution of old myths, and is based in other myths of the time a mixing, a proof that god is something created by humans.
Yes, the idea of god today has changed. In the Myths, the writers were observing the behaior of humans which never died out, but coukd be found in the passed generations and seen coming in the next as their own children took their places in society and acted out the roles of soldier, craftsman, mother, so on. Since Moses, the focus on the meaning of life and the mystery of existence itself has developed into a deification of the First Cause idea.
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