Category: History of god
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According to the Bible, God created the world in six days—a feat that is celebrated as extraordinary and divine. However, an often-overlooked detail is that the Book of Genesis presents not one, but two distinct creation stories. This curious repetition raises questions about the narrative’s coherence and purpose. Why would God, after crafting the universe…
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Much is made of the breakthrough innovation of the Jewish Scriptures having one god and not many. But as we’ve previously covered in the lesson One God? where Canaanites and their hillbilly cousins the Israelites worshiped many gods, with the Israelites not winnowing it down to one until around 586 BC during the exile in…