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Archaeological Find proves that God's name is JEHOVAH! Amazing!

Elvira said:
Several false gods are mentioned...Baal, Bel, Merodach, and even Satan...
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If the people in the bible story believed in those gods they must have been real in the story.
 
devildavid said:
If the people in the bible story believed in those gods they must have been real in the story.
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True. If they are false then why are they in the bible? The bible is supposed to be true.
 
zyzygy said:
True. If they are false then why are they in the bible? The bible is supposed to be true.
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And those people in the story must have had a personal experience of those gods.
 
God (El, Elohim, Yahweh, YWHW, Jehovah) in the OT obviously believed those other gods were real - otherwise, why would he command the Hebrews to not worship them? Why tell the people to not worship imaginary beings?
 
Somerville said:
God (El, Elohim, Yahweh, YWHW, Jehovah) in the OT obviously believed those other gods were real - otherwise, why would he command the Hebrews to not worship them? Why tell the people to not worship imaginary beings?
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He could have done that. The god if the OT is not very stable.
 
Somerville said:
God (El, Elohim, Yahweh, YWHW, Jehovah) in the OT obviously believed those other gods were real - otherwise, why would he command the Hebrews to not worship them? Why tell the people to not worship imaginary beings?
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Simple...man has a vivid imagination...atheists claim that all the time but Jehovah said...

"For this is what Jehovah says,
The Creator of the heavens, the true God,
The One who formed the earth, its Maker who firmly established it,
Who did not create it simply for nothing, but formed it to be inhabited:
“I am Jehovah, and there is no one else." Isaiah 45:18

"Remember facts of the ancient past; for I am Deity and there is no other, God and no being is like me," Isaiah 46:9
 
Manc Skipper said:
Come to think of it, God Yahweh was known as El, and one of his sons was Baal, the storm God. El's wife was Asherah (Astarte) but she's been airbrushed out.
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To be more precise, if you look at the Urgartic pantheon, Yahweh was one of El's sons, along with Baal. The Jewish religon took the various names of the Gods in that patheon, and combined them so they referred to one God, instead of many.
 
zyzygy said:
That is interesting. Why didn't she fit into the Christian myth?
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That's because the worship of Asherrah was elminated from the Jewish religion.. the priesthood started trying to stamp it out between the 6th and 10th century bce , but there are indications they weren't totally successful until probably the 3rd to 4th century bce.
 
zyzygy said:
The OT is a very boring fairy tale.
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The OT is more exciting than the NT- which is just three of the same stories copied one after the other and edited quite badly. At least the OT has incest, mass murder, crazy laws, getting high and all that- very entertaining.
 
Elvira said:
The one true God has one name...Jehovah...Allah, Lord, God are all titles...and Jesus is God's son...
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How did he make his own son? Or did Jesus always exist? What does it mean to be the son of the one God? Why even call that new sub-God a son at all? Isn't that just projecting human values upon a God with no beginning, no end, no DNA, no wife, no pecker? Does God have a pecker?
 
Vadinho said:
How did he make his own son? Or did Jesus always exist? What does it mean to be the son of the one God? Why even call that new sub-God a son at all? Isn't that just projecting human values upon a God with no beginning, no end, no DNA, no wife, no pecker? Does God have a pecker?
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Jehovah is a spirit so He has no fleshly body but He does use terms in the Bible to explain Himself much of the time so humans can understand...man was created in God's image, meaning we are capable of displaying some of the same qualities that God does, to a limited extent now, because of our sinful nature...love, justice, mercy, etc...

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness," Genesis 1:26

The Bible tells us that Jesus was Jehovah's first creation and by him all other things were created...

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through him and for him." Colossians 1:15,16
 
Elvira said:
Jehovah is a spirit so He has no fleshly body but He does use terms in the Bible to explain Himself much of the time so humans can understand...man was created in God's image, meaning we are capable of displaying some of the same qualities that God does, to a limited extent now, because of our sinful nature...love, justice, mercy, etc...

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness," Genesis 1:26

The Bible tells us that Jesus was Jehovah's first creation and by him all other things were created...

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through him and for him." Colossians 1:15,16
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Collosians is in the New Testament, hardly a source for proving your point in regards to Jesus being created first by God. If what you say is true, why did it not make Genesis? I hope you fathom that the New Testament was entirely about making Jesus into something special even if they had to update the OT to make it so.
 
Vadinho said:
Collosians is in the New Testament, hardly a source for proving your point in regards to Jesus being created first by God. If what you say is true, why did it not make Genesis? I hope you fathom that the New Testament was entirely about making Jesus into something special even if they had to update the OT to make it so.
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Who do you think the "us" is?

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness"

Then there's Proverbs 8...

"22 Jehovah produced me as the beginning of his way,
The earliest of his achievements of long ago.

23 From ancient times I was installed,
From the start, from times earlier than the earth.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there;
When he marked out the horizon on the surface of the waters,

30 Then I was beside him as a master worker.
I was the one he was especially fond of day by day;
I rejoiced before him all the time;

31 I rejoiced over his habitable earth,
And I was especially fond of the sons of men."
 
Elvira said:
Who do you think the "us" is?

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness"
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So God is admitting the existence of another god- that contradicts his statement that he is the one true god.
 
PoS said:
So God is admitting the existence of another god- that contradicts his statement that he is the one true god.
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He's admitting there are many Gods, but he's the biggest and bestest. Who has many names, including Jehovah, Yahweh, Ei, and others.
 
Elvira said:
Who do you think the "us" is?

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness"

Then there's Proverbs 8...

"22 Jehovah produced me as the beginning of his way,
The earliest of his achievements of long ago.

23 From ancient times I was installed,
From the start, from times earlier than the earth.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there;
When he marked out the horizon on the surface of the waters,

30 Then I was beside him as a master worker.
I was the one he was especially fond of day by day;
I rejoiced before him all the time;

31 I rejoiced over his habitable earth,
And I was especially fond of the sons of men."
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Now you are reaching...nice try though. I strongly suggest you read some history about the formation of the church. The questions I asked you were central to the debates about the nature of Jesus during the first 600 years of the faith. One book that you might enjoy is called Jesus Wars, look it up.
 
Manc Skipper said:
He's admitting there are many Gods, but he's the biggest and bestest. Who has many names, including Jehovah, Yahweh, Ei, and others.
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Thats always been a problem with the bible- its full of contradictions. All you have to do is flip a few pages to find something that is the complete opposite of what you read before. It's an anthology book that needs an editor to correct all the discrepancies in it.
 
PoS said:
So God is admitting the existence of another god- that contradicts his statement that he is the one true god.
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The one true God Almighty, yes...Jesus is His first creation and by Jehovah's own admission , He has exalted His son to the position of King, to rule over the earth for 1,000 years...then he returns the rule back to Jehovah God...Revelation 20:4-6; 1 Corinthians 15:24
 
Vadinho said:
Now you are reaching...nice try though. I strongly suggest you read some history about the formation of the church. The questions I asked you were central to the debates about the nature of Jesus during the first 600 years of the faith. One book that you might enjoy is called Jesus Wars, look it up.
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The Bible is all I need...if the Bible can't answer, then there is no answer...
 
zyzygy said:
Elvira is easily amazed.
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Elvira will be even more amazed when she finds out that god is a Russian lady, Ekaterina Jehova.
 
PoS said:
Thats always been a problem with the bible- its full of contradictions. All you have to do is flip a few pages to find something that is the complete opposite of what you read before. It's an anthology book that needs an editor to correct all the discrepancies in it.
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That is because you are not understanding what you are reading...
 
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