>>18720826
Muslims cope with the fact Jews are minotheistic too which does not fit your agenda of being the only monotheists.

Jews never worshipped Ezra or Ozair (little ezra) by the way. The quran made it up because your idealogy falls apart when you learn you are not the only monotheists lol.

>>18720928
I'm not Muslim and believe Islam is wrong about its characterization of Judaism / Christianity. If you actually read the Tanach, it's clear the existence of other Gods isn't something that's disputed. There's no verse saying, "YHVH is the only God" - just repeated emphasis he's the only one to be worshipped

>>18720934
There are two different origins.

Judaism began as polytheist and El became Yahweh.

Islam began as polytheist and Allah became Allah but he dropped his three daughters.

The difference is that yeah judaism does not as often accuse the other gods of being fake, unless you count some examples like when Ba'al was tested and mocked for being asleep which could count as accusing him of being fake.

Quran calls all the other gods fake but it also admits that djinn exist and are powerful they are like lesser gods in a way lol.

>>18720943
Neither Islam, Judaism, nor Christianity were ever truly monotheistic is the point.

>>18720826
When it comes to religious studies, you have to accept how religions define themselves. Not just iinvent your version of that religion through interpretation.

>>18720826
Monotheism in the sense that the amount of real deities equals exactly one is an academic induction and arguably a misunderstanding. Classical monotheism is about there being one God unlike any other spirit, so much so that the title 'god' should only be applied to Him. How entities exist that people happened to have worshipped is mostly besides the point. So idk where you were trying to go with this, OP, but you agree with classical monotheist take on Judaism and Christianity.

PS: 2 Cor 4:4 doesn't use capital G.

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>>18720962
>You can't base your perspective on a religion on the content of their scriptures

>>18720826
Maybe that's how they evolved, but they do not currently acknowledge other gods, nor did they in the last two thousand years.
What might have been once other gods has been redefined as angels, demons or Jinn.

>>18720965
>Monotheism in the sense that the amount of real deities equals exactly one is an academic induction and arguably a misunderstanding
Even if that's true, henotheism more accurately describes the Abrahamic faiths

>>18720972
Precisely because it's true, henotheism more accurately describes the Abrahamic faiths.

>>18720826
there is only one god - our father in heaven
>>Satan, who is the God of this world
material world isn't real - satan (demiurg) isn't a real god

>>18720972
>Abrahamic faiths
christianity has nothing to do with abrahamic faiths. their tribal totems are different aspects of demiurge (saturn and moon) who as previously stated is a false deity

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>>18720995
Jesus constantly quoted from the Tanach so that perspective is complete historical revisionism
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=second_person

If Jesus was actually against the OT Demiurge, why did he constantly preach quotes from his scripture? Why did he call himself "one with" that force in John 10:30? I'll never understand how Gnostics pretend Christianity is somehow separate from the rest of the Abrahamic faiths in that regard.

>>18720997
The "canonical gospels" are either heavily tampered with or outright forgeries. The Gospel of Thomas and the rest of the Gnostic gospels are authentic with no matter how much you cry otherwise and claim they were written in the 2nd century.

>>18720968
Not if what you think you say runs counter to everything they preach and practice. At that point the religion as it actually exists has no relation to the 'true' form of it in your head, Green Frog. You are basically saying that they ought to believe XYZ.

>>18720997
>If Jesus was actually against the OT Demiurge, why did he constantly preach quotes from his scripture?
because his objective was to convert semite savages to one true god by posing as a savior figure the savages' scripture promised

>>18720826
>>Satan, who is the God of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe.
The "Satan" was added later by the way. By scribes with an agenda, no doubt.

The original text just says:
>In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of god/god.

>>18720826
You just watched a Dan McClellan video, didn't you?

>>18721036
>By scribes with an agenda, no doubt.
The NLT translators, kek.

>>18720826
>They're henotheistic, acknowledging the existence of other Gods while emphasizing the worship of one over the rest.
This was true of early Judaism but that stopped being the case long before the time of Jesus.

>>18720948
That's true, but the followers of those religions are taught to see it differently than it really is.

>>18720826
>henotheistic
Henotheistic would be like having a football team, and you pick your favorite player as the leader.
Monotheism is saying that the best possible conception of a football player should guide everyone to be the best football player that they can be, and that they are all on the same team acting as one unified culture of players called The Football Player.

It is kinda true, but not really.

There are multiple 'gods' but they aren't recognized as 'true gods', there is only one true God.

So you can see it kinda like:

God > other Gods > whatever > humans

But pure henotheism would be like, you pick God from a collection of gods that are ontologically equal and worship it exclusively. If it's not exclusive then it's just pure polytheism.

>>18720826
I think the other gods are certain angels