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Honest question:
There are terms in the Bible that show they were clearly adopted from other faiths of the time that were incorporated into Judaism. For example Mal 4:1 "the sun of righteousness" - that was a known title of the Egyptian God Ra. "El" was Canaanite for a deity. Archaeologists claim that Yahweh was originally a local god, later given the titles of "El" and then promoted as the national God. Some even claim that early Hebrews (like Abraham) were polytheistic and monotheism emerged later, with Asherah as the wife of Yahweh. There are statues of mother and son in Babylon before Jesus and Mary.
Interestingly this also happened in Egypt, which was actually monotheistic at one point. (The kicker being that the single "god" was the sun).
Many Christian symbols are pagan in origin; the fish (Venus), the Cross, the dove (Hera), the star of David (the upper and lower triangles were symbolic of male and female, possibly Babylonian mysticism) and so forth. Even the word Hell comes from the name of a Nordic goddess.
Does anyone have any comment on this?
There are terms in the Bible that show they were clearly adopted from other faiths of the time that were incorporated into Judaism. For example Mal 4:1 "the sun of righteousness" - that was a known title of the Egyptian God Ra. "El" was Canaanite for a deity. Archaeologists claim that Yahweh was originally a local god, later given the titles of "El" and then promoted as the national God. Some even claim that early Hebrews (like Abraham) were polytheistic and monotheism emerged later, with Asherah as the wife of Yahweh. There are statues of mother and son in Babylon before Jesus and Mary.
Interestingly this also happened in Egypt, which was actually monotheistic at one point. (The kicker being that the single "god" was the sun).
Many Christian symbols are pagan in origin; the fish (Venus), the Cross, the dove (Hera), the star of David (the upper and lower triangles were symbolic of male and female, possibly Babylonian mysticism) and so forth. Even the word Hell comes from the name of a Nordic goddess.
Does anyone have any comment on this?