A wonderful history in this article... especially the Zoroastrian influence. Could it be bookended with another piece on the prime Canaanite religion and its influence in early Judaism? And how the war-god/ storm-god supplanted El/Baal?
Ha,seems like God's (children)always needed a fall guy to explain their weakness. Seven deadly sins , ect. Human nature hasn't changed from the first cognisant thought to today's expanded consciousness. It seems like all the thoughts and wisdom placed on paper were just a justification of existence. The haves and have-nots is the same tiresome story, and a justification for any form of redemption. Just my personal opinion.
If you equate God with Life, let’s say God, that living spark in all of us, is Life; then Life brings us Joys and also sorrows. So God (creates, allows, prevents) all of these things in life and most of what happens to us is a result of our choices. We make our own heaven and hell as we live our lives. God is Life and life is God makes sense when you think about it, doesn’t it?
A wonderful history in this article... especially the Zoroastrian influence. Could it be bookended with another piece on the prime Canaanite religion and its influence in early Judaism? And how the war-god/ storm-god supplanted El/Baal?
Ha,seems like God's (children)always needed a fall guy to explain their weakness. Seven deadly sins , ect. Human nature hasn't changed from the first cognisant thought to today's expanded consciousness. It seems like all the thoughts and wisdom placed on paper were just a justification of existence. The haves and have-nots is the same tiresome story, and a justification for any form of redemption. Just my personal opinion.
If you equate God with Life, let’s say God, that living spark in all of us, is Life; then Life brings us Joys and also sorrows. So God (creates, allows, prevents) all of these things in life and most of what happens to us is a result of our choices. We make our own heaven and hell as we live our lives. God is Life and life is God makes sense when you think about it, doesn’t it?