How To Defeat God - Iron Chariots And Human Sacrifices

Only Sky ✏ Reading the Bible is like an archaeological dig.

The text we have today isn’t one book but many, written by different people from different cultures at different times. There’s no reason to expect that they all had exactly the same religious beliefs. As you read through them, you can notice the inconsistencies, like buried artifacts frozen in time.

There’s persistent speculation that some of the older parts of the Bible were written by ancient Hebrews who had a polytheistic belief system. They imagined Yahweh as one god among many, powerful but not omnipotent. They worshipped him as their tribe’s patron deity, but they didn’t deny that other people had gods of their own. (The technical term for this is monolatry or henotheism.)

Modern-day Jews and Christians wouldn’t admit this, of course. They’d say that the Bible is one coherent text, inspired by divine revelation to different people across the ages, but always conveying the same message. They’d say that there’s only one god, omniscient and omnipotent, and he faces no competition. Any claims to the contrary are demonic deceptions.
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However, there are some biblical verses that don’t fit with this smoothed-over modern theology.

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