If religion was not based on "faith" and if God did not do "divine hiddenness" wouldn't people react normally instead of estatically and treat life and goodness better?
You have to separate Human nature from the nature of the Divine. While Human nature does originate from the Divine, in of itself is creation with a separate soul destiny dependent on thought and deed.
>>544877642Deed moreso, man can suppress horrible thought to remain just. What is done is done.
>>544877642Confucius was a much greater law giver the Moses and less bloodthirsty
>>544877958His biggest mistake was entrusting Israel to Midian after the Golden Calf Incident.
>>544878039Its actually funny that Moses own wife Zipporah was a Midianite as was his father in law Jethro a priest of Midian. If only they could gaze the future.
>>544878174It's certainly possible he accidentally released a mountain fury believing it was the One God.
>>544878705You see Jesus Christ taught Ren. Much of Iron Age Israeli history has come from the conflict between the Ba'alists and Yahwehists of Canaan but El was largely forgotten despite being the root word meaning "God" precisely.
>>544879627EL was just the standard name of God in that region of Canaan. Its basically just translated to "god". Israel "Isis Ra El" seemed to be some sort of continuation of ancient Egyptian and Cannanite gods.
>>544877378The watchers knew of gods existence and all the details of his laws and still went against him. It's actually all pretty consistently laid out in the texts why we don't get to know of God the same way they do and the benefit of tat as well.Probably worth looking into it and/or asking chatgpt about it
>>544881005If you are talking about divine beings then one has to ask oneself why 1/3 decided to go their own way. Also the majority of humanity i would say maybe 70% or so are according to traditional theology going to hell.