Posted on 03/19/2011 11:21:29 AM PDT by caldera599
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.
In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and Asherah. The theory has gained new prominence because of the research of Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who began her work at Oxford and is now a senior lecturer in the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter.
Information presented in Stavrakopoulou's books, lectures and journal papers has become the basis of a three-part documentary series, now airing in Europe, where she discusses the Yahweh-Asherah connection.
"You might know him as Yahweh, Allah or God. But on this fact, Jews, Muslims and Christians, the people of the great Abrahamic religions, are agreed: There is only one of Him," writes Stavrakopoulou in a statement released to the British media. "He is a solitary figure, a single, universal creator, not one God among many ... or so we like to believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
“Plus they say their jesus did too..also several...”
So, Nana, where do you find that?
By reading mormon doctrines...
Let’s not forget Inanna, & Tiamat, and others whose names escape me now.
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
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.
That's pretty much the way this post strikes me. Who you pitching for, caldera?
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
We’ve got a better chance of seeing her birth certificate that we do Zero’s.
Sounds good to me!
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They hate women. And though its convenient to ignore, the Bible came from the same general area as the Koran.
Your Bible must be the “Reader’s Digest Condensed” translation.
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.
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.
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