Posted on 09/18/2013 12:19:58 PM PDT by the scotsman
'Female figurines and inscribed prayers to a "divine couple" found in temples in Israel suggest that the “one God” of the Bible may not have been entirely alone.
A recent excavation in Tel Motza, not far from Jerusalem, found what archaeologists believe to have been a ritual building - with clay figures of animals and men from the time of the First Temple, according to Israel's Haaretz news site.
The find suggests that Iron Age religion in the area around Jerusalem may not have been monotheistic just before the time the Hebrew Bible – the basis of the Old Testament - started to be written.
Now experts are increasingly suggesting that far from there being “one God”, there were many.
One expert, Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou of the University of Exeter, says there is “increasing evidence” of Israelites worshipping several gods - including one who may have been seen as Yahweh’s “wife”.'
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...
Yeah, the blasphemers keep hoping that we will come to believe their lies if they repeat them often enough.
Use of the royal “we”?
Christianity has nothing of the sort in the trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one and the same God. They are separate persons. There is no gender in the trinity strictly speaking.
Jesus who is the son of God and the second person assumed the nature of man, and became one person with two natures. In his humanity he has gender.
That aside, Christianity believes in the trinity. One God three persons. Not in a Father, mother, son example which you ascribe to God.
I thought it was Nancy Pelosi.
Chapter 23 is coming up soon, then. That's the account of Aholah and Aholibah.
Being able to listen to the Bible on tape, CD, or audiofile is one of the best inventions of modern life.
Yep
No wonder he spent 6 days puttering around in His garage making the Heavens and the Earth, the Sun and the Moon, the oceans and the mountains, the animals and plants, and man and woman.
Misery loves company.
Apparently there was a typo on the Ten Commandments.
I wonder if God has a man cave?
Reggie gets no Love?
Don’t you mean George Noory?
So she got fed up with him spending all his time worrying about us?
naw
Think Raiders of The Lost Ark......
She was the prototypical Eve created from the ethereal nothingness and like Eve, had no belly button
I sold out in the late 70's (1970s) when it became a crime to drive a pick up truck instead of a mercedes (LOL! Half kidding) and moved two states North...
Without giving your GPS coordinates away, which part of Marin?
Being able to listen to the Bible on tape, CD, or audiofile is one of the best inventions of modern life.
Pro 27:15
(15) A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,
I hear you on the history of Marin. Yuppification has made it rather bizarre indeed.
Picture an Obama...All Fired Up and Ready to GO Campaign poster in a second story window.....with Gold Leaf trim and all...on Shady Lane in nearby Ross.
Presently I’m in San Anselmo, although Ive lived In San Rafael. Fairfax and Mill Valley..this all since 1979.
I live close enough to the fire trails to be out of town and Up In The Hills..in less than fifteen minutes.
there are allegedly MORE cults in Marin than anywhere else in the Nation at this point.btw
I understood your allusion.
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