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Topic: Is God a Product of Evolution or Creation
Krimsa Joined Fri 04/25/08 Posts: 9960	Fri 01/02/09 04:48 PM Edited by Krimsa on Fri 01/02/09 04:48 PM
Howevr you have completely omitted Judism from your historical evaluation which contradicts this overview. In history - no other society or people has been documented more than this former world power - so how could you not include it's world view of God? Some information about the ancient Hebrews. "Recently, archaeologists and biblical critics have revealed a far more complicated picture of how biblical Israelites lived their religious lives. As exhaustively summarized in William Dever’s “Did God Have a Wife? Archeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel,” most scholars now believe that the ancient Israelite world was far less monolithic, and monotheistic, than the Bible suggests. Household shrines, statuettes of male and female figures, and inscriptions and carvings describing “YHVH and His Asherah” all point to a decentralized biblical religion that was practiced largely within family structures, and well beyond the strictures of Jerusalem’s orthodox elite. Some scholars believe that this evidence points to an indigenous “goddess worship” that regarded the biblical God as one half of a divine couple. Others say it suggests the influence of non-Israelite religions. And still others, such as Raphael Patai, whose enormously influential 1978 book, “The Hebrew Goddess,” arguably inaugurated the popular appropriation of this scholarship, believe that the tradition of the Divine Feminine — a female half of God, or bride of God, or earth-centered, body-centered counterpart to the sky god Yah — endured long after the biblical period ended.

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Fri 01/02/09 07:26 PM


Krimsa Joined Fri 04/25/08 Posts: 9960	Fri 01/02/09 07:50 PM
Uh, that photo is like as tall as I am.

funches Joined Sat 12/01/07 Posts: 12948	Sat 01/03/09 07:14 AM
LOL...Ohhhhh!!!! this is the best one yet. Delusions???? hahahahahaha Every man is born with an INSTINCT of God. It's much more than a delusion... hahahaha More to the point are people who want to change God's word & His will for some feel good phoney sort of something... that does nothing for them in the long run. That is the only thing that is made up. hehehehe Silly... "Quikstepper" ...those with an instinct for God is no different than those that have an instinct in the tooth fairy ...since neither can prove either ...it's called paraniod delusion I believe in the "Lint Fairy". Instead of a dollar for your front teeth he leaves you a pile of lint because he’s a cheap bastard. for me it's the brew fairy ...I give the sales person some tithes and every saturday little elves leave cold ass beer in the fridge

Krimsa Joined Fri 04/25/08 Posts: 9960	Sat 01/03/09 08:02 AM
I forgot to site my source but taken from the Jewish Daily Forward. http://www.forward.com/

Bushidobillyclub Joined Fri 05/11/07 Posts: 5689	Sat 01/03/09 11:57 AM Edited by Bushidobillyclub on Sat 01/03/09 11:58 AM
Howevr you have completely omitted Judism from your historical evaluation which contradicts this overview. In history - no other society or people has been documented more than this former world power - so how could you not include it's world view of God? Some information about the ancient Hebrews. "Recently, archaeologists and biblical critics have revealed a far more complicated picture of how biblical Israelites lived their religious lives. As exhaustively summarized in William Dever’s “Did God Have a Wife? Archeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel,” most scholars now believe that the ancient Israelite world was far less monolithic, and monotheistic, than the Bible suggests. Household shrines, statuettes of male and female figures, and inscriptions and carvings describing “YHVH and His Asherah” all point to a decentralized biblical religion that was practiced largely within family structures, and well beyond the strictures of Jerusalem’s orthodox elite. Some scholars believe that this evidence points to an indigenous “goddess worship” that regarded the biblical God as one half of a divine couple. Others say it suggests the influence of non-Israelite religions. And still others, such as Raphael Patai, whose enormously influential 1978 book, “The Hebrew Goddess,” arguably inaugurated the popular appropriation of this scholarship, believe that the tradition of the Divine Feminine — a female half of God, or bride of God, or earth-centered, body-centered counterpart to the sky god Yah — endured long after the biblical period ended. Very interesting. This is exactly what we expect to see from an evolving community of beliefs. The idea of coop universal governance, that is interesting as well.