Why is Yahweh written like that
>>223989466He loves genocides. It's almost as he commanded his white demon worshipers saying "thou shall kill and murder".
Judges 1 is describing Israel’s incomplete conquest caused by human weakness and lack of confidence in God. The problem was not that God was unable to defeat them, but that the Israelites did not fully trust or cooperate with the grace given to them. Not a limitation in God's power.(God's help does not excuse human responsibility)
>>223989466I'm pretty sure omnipotence was added much laterIn early books YHWH seems to be in the middle of a god war between countless deities of various peoples and his powers don't really seem limitless
>>223989491yeah nigga nafri Jews aren't a thing at all of course
>>223989526Now tell us about the back and forth into and out of egypt and the many pairings between the tribe of Abraham and the egyptian court. Because it is mentioned quite a lot in the beginning of the Bible, the holy book of the jews. Could you give us an explanation?
>>223989608Egypt represented a place of both refuge and a place of spiritual danger. Abraham, Joseph, and Jacob’s family went there under providence, but Israel was later delivered from Egyptian bondage as a figure of mankind’s deliverance from sin. The marriages and contacts with Egyptians show the close historical relationship between the peoples, while also warning Israel not to absorb Egypt’s idolatry. These episodes are part of God’s gradual preparation of Israel for the coming of Christ.
>>223989669>Abraham, Joseph, and Jacob’s family went there under providenceRight, their families consistinf of whom? They must have been quite important families to be recorded in a religious text. And what were the reasons for providence? Why sometimes refuge and sometimes danger albeit spiritual?>The marriages and contacts with Egyptians show the close historical relationship between the peoples, while also warning Israel not to absorb Egypt’s idolatry.Oh really? So there was a close historical relstionship you say? Which was fragmented because of religious differences? Hmmm
>>223989772Abraham’s household included Sarah, Lot, and their servants. Joseph’s family was Jacob and his twelve sons with their households. Jacob’s migration to Egypt involved a clan. They were recorded not because they were politically important, but because they became the ancestors of the people through whom God prepared salvation. Providence means God used ordinary events to preserve the covenant family and advance His promise.A place can serve different purposes at different times. Egypt preserved Abraham’s household during famine and later preserved Jacob’s family through Joseph, but it became dangerous when a Pharaoh enslaved their descendants. Egypt thus spiritually became both a temporary refuge and an image of worldly power and idolatry. The Bible distinguishes God’s providential use of a nation from approval of everything that nation believes or does.The central conflict was not simply that Egyptians and Israelites disliked one another because of religious differences. It was that Israel’s worship of the true God increasingly set it apart from Egypt’s political domination and idolatry.
>>223989857>but because they became the ancestors of the people through whom God prepared salvationSo they actually were politically importantEspecially since you close with this phrase>Israel’s worship of the true God increasingly set it apart from Egypt’s political domination and idolatry.Also:You mention that egypt was a providencial nation, as if they were separate from the jews. But how do you factor in the intermarrriages between Abraham's people and the egyptian court?
>>223989466It would be cool if iron chariot was just the only way people back then could describe ayylien technology.
>>223990031Theologically important, not necessarily politically important. The Bible records them because God chose their family as the instrument of His covenant, not because they were powerful aristocrats or something. Saying that Israel later resisted Egypt’s political domination describes the relationship between a small covenant people and a larger empire, not that the patriarchs began as political equals.Providence (not province) does not mean Egypt was unrelated to Abraham’s people. It means God used a foreign nation through famine relief, Joseph’s position, and Egypt’s resources to preserve the covenant family. Intermarriage and personal relationships did occur, such as Joseph’s marriage to Asenath and Hagar’s Egyptian origin, but these do not erase the distinction between the peoples. Such relationships could be accepted when they did not lead Israel into idolatry, while later warnings against foreign marriages addressed the spiritual danger of apostasy.
>>223989466Reject abrahamic bullcrapreturn to your true creator.
>>223990111Ok, you are a religious person who takes religious texts at face value.You are so far describing political relations and that is not surprising given that myths were also a way of communicating history in a memorable way in the days of primarily oral transmissions. Which is further solidified by the frequent mention of the relations between a dominant house (abraham) and the imperial court.These are merely the hints that there was a religious separation within the egyptian nobility, specifically those who were loyal to Akhenaton, the Pharaoh who was influenced by a general trend of monotheism that was sweeping Mesopotamia and eastern mediterranean.
>>223990218The Bible is not a technical manual. Calling these accounts “myths” does not by itself explain them, and repeated references to royal courts do not prove that the patriarchs belonged to a hidden Egyptian religious faction.The proposed connection with Akhenaten is also chronologically and evidentially weak. Akhenaten ruled in the fourteenth century BC, whereas Abraham is placed much earlier. The biblical narratives do not identify Abraham’s household with Akhenaten’s court, and no Egyptian or biblical evidence links them. Moreover, Akhenaten’s Aten religion was a royal cult centered on the pharaoh, not clearly the universal, morally defined monotheism taught in the Scripture of Israel.
Bump
>>223989568monotheistic judaism is a late concept in the bible
