Did God have a wife? Scholar says that he did

MSNBC ^ | Viegas | Jennifer

[Old Student]

“Plus they say their jesus did too..also several...”

So, Nana, where do you find that?

[Tennessee Nana]

By reading mormon doctrines...

[Old Student]

Let’s not forget Inanna, & Tiamat, and others whose names escape me now.

[bigheadfred]

Astaroth

She was known to the Canaanites as Astarte, to the Sumerians, she was known as Inanna, to the Babylonians, she was known as Ishtar. To the Assyrians and the Akkadians, Ashtart, Ashtoreth, Asherah, and Astoreth, to the Egyptians, Isis, Ashet and Aset, to the Phoenecians, she was known as Tanit-Ashtart and Ashtaroth. Her Ugaritic name was Anat and to the Greeks, she was known as Aphrodite.

Astaroth is a very ancient Goddess. Like Enki and Enlil, she has been with humanity since the very beginning. Astaroth is also Enlil’s granddaughter. Her parents are Ningal and Nanna. She has been known by several different names as she has been the Chief Goddess throughout many cultures because she has been with us since the beginning. She has been known as a Goddess of love and war. She is also known as the Goddess of fertility.

Easter (originally known as “Ishtar”), was stolen from her by the Christians.

As the Sumerian Goddess “Inanna”, she was known as a powerful warrior and her sacred animal was the lion.

Astaroth answers truly concerning the past, present, and future. She discovers all secrets, and is an excellent teacher of the liberal sciences. She causes one to have prophetic dreams or visions about the future and gives insight into the unknown. She also councils humans who are close to Enki and actively working for him.

http://www.enkiea.org/gods/astaroth.html

[svcw]

The only group who I have ever heard said God was married are mormons. In fact many wives, they also say he worked his way to godhood.
In the real world God did not have a wife.

[delacoert]

... just another effort to undermine traditional religion, both Jewish and Christian, and to undermine the Bible.

That's pretty much the way this post strikes me. Who you pitching for, caldera?

[nerdwithagun]

Thank you, exactly. Asherah was worshiped by people in the middle east and some Israeli Hebrews walked away from their faith and worshiped her amongst other Gods. He is twisting it to make it look like she is a true part of the faith.

[skeptoid]

Bride=Wife

Oh . . . right.
. . ..well . . .

. . .I guess that means I'll have to silently sing "here comes the WIFE" the next time I hear the Wedding March.

Thanks

[SunkenCiv]

We’ve got a better chance of seeing her birth certificate that we do Zero’s.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Sounds good to me!

[SunkenCiv]

• Archeologists Make Rare Discovery West of Jerusalem
• 2,750-year-old temple found near Jerusalem Finds in Israel add weight to theory God “had wife”

[Salvation]

??

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

They hate women. And though it’s convenient to ignore, the Bible came from the same general area as the Koran.

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Your Bible must be the “Reader’s Digest Condensed” translation.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I doubt anyone in the Middle East ever worshipped a woman. They hate women

You are wrong. In the ME they had a number of female goddesses that they worshiped. Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna, Ereshkigal and Tiamat to name a few.

[wildbill]

There were many female goddesses in what is now the Middle East, some native to the area’s peoples and some imported from other cultures.

This isn’t to say that women were as equal to males as they became in Western cultures only very recently. Muslims stand out as misogynous in the modern world because there is a reformation wing of the religion that is attempting to return women to their status circa 650 A.D. with the rise of Islam.