If God was Jewish and Jesus Was Catholic who made up these other religions?

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Anonymous wrote:Simple. We don't believe in your 'God'.

What you believe in has no bearing on the truth.

I believe magical unicorns and leprechauns are real. Are they just because I believe it.

"There are no atheists in a foxhole." Ernie Pyle. WWII war correspondent.

If your child was terminally ill would you pray to your unicorns?

First, hypothetical scenarios that involve horrifically unthinkable positions like the one you posit are both extremely distasteful, as well as logically irrelevant, which shows them to be a method used only by those with no practical and real logic. It’s not a good look and you should stop at.

But to humor your incredibly offensive and irrelevant scenario, if I did find myself in that situation, and I did meet god I would do everything I could to kick his ass, and if that proved impractical, I would certainly welcome banishment to hell because the devil can’t be any worse than he is.

Happy with your question now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God created Earth. He was Jewish.

His son Jesus acted up and sent his 12 Apostles out to start Catholic Church.

But what’s up with all the other religions? Did people just make them up and folks blindly followed?

God wasn't Jewish. He formed a covenant with Abraham and some of his progeny, but lot's of other peoples around at that time had their own gods.
And yes, almost certainly "people [did] just make up [these other religions.]"
Most religions pre-dating Judaism were polytheistic

There is a good argument that Judaism was polytheistic prior to the Babylonian Captivity and the writing of the Torah.

Good evidence that the ancestors of the Jews were polytheistic? Or good evidence that there lol were polytheists who identified themselves as Jewish? I am skeptical about the latter.

I can read Biblical Hebrew, and Aramaic pretty because I attended Orthodox religious schools before becoming secular, and that background let me take some grad-level classes on the history of the Hebrew Bible as an undergraduate. My recollection is that there are very many references to multiple gods. For starters, the Hebrew Bible mostly references “Elohim” which is literally “gods”. Also, the very word for God in Hebrew (“el”) is the name of a Canaanite god, and the Hebrew Bible consistently refers to both “el/Elohim” (“god”) vs the god of Moses (YHVH, usually translated as “the Lord”). Then there are references to the goddess Asherah (אֲשֵׁרָה), a word the religious will tell you refers to “poles” in the Hebrew Bible and not the goddess, despite that being the meaning in every other Semitic language and dialect.

There is also the fact that the psalms are full of praise for “El ‘elyon” (God most high)… which happens to be the name of the chief Ugarittic god, and the phrase is used explicitly to refer to that god in Genesis.

Then, of course, there are the demigods in Genesis 6:1-2 (בני האלהים).

There are dozens of similar examples, and my impression is that it’s pretty broadly accepted in academic biblical archaeology that monotheism didn’t among Israelites until post-Babylonian exile.

You copy from Wikipedia well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simple. We don't believe in your 'God'.

What you believe in has no bearing on the truth.

I believe magical unicorns and leprechauns are real. Are they just because I believe it.

"There are no atheists in a foxhole." Ernie Pyle. WWII war correspondent.

If your child was terminally ill would you pray to your unicorns?

First, hypothetical scenarios that involve horrifically unthinkable positions like the one you posit are both extremely distasteful, as well as logically irrelevant, which shows them to be a method used only by those with no practical and real logic. It’s not a good look and you should stop at.

But to humor your incredibly offensive and irrelevant scenario, if I did find myself in that situation, and I did meet god I would do everything I could to kick his ass, and if that proved impractical, I would certainly welcome banishment to hell because the devil can’t be any worse than he is.

Happy with your question now?

Sweetie Pie, you are never going to die.. .not even Satan deserves you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simple. We don't believe in your 'God'.

What you believe in has no bearing on the truth.

I believe magical unicorns and leprechauns are real. Are they just because I believe it.

"There are no atheists in a foxhole." Ernie Pyle. WWII war correspondent.

If your child was terminally ill would you pray to your unicorns?

There are no monotheists either. Did you forget the Golden Calf?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simple. We don't believe in your 'God'.

What you believe in has no bearing on the truth.

I believe magical unicorns and leprechauns are real. Are they just because I believe it.

"There are no atheists in a foxhole." Ernie Pyle. WWII war correspondent.

If your child was terminally ill would you pray to your unicorns?

As a parent who has faced terminal illness in a child, and who has known others who have walked the same path, I can assure you that there are many people who lose their faith along that journey. Few things seem more likely to make one doubt the existence of God.

Hymish dies and goes to Heaven. When he meets God, he tells God a joke about the Holocaust.
God says "The Holocaust is not funny."
Hymish replies, "Oh, well, I guess you had to be there."

[Anonymous]

God was Jewish???? What religion is this? Its definitely not Judaism, Christianity or Islam.

[Anonymous]

"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

Palm Beach?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

Palm Beach?

While your response made me smile (thanks), I was genuinely asking with serious intent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

Palm Beach?

While your response made me smile (thanks), I was genuinely asking with serious intent.

You can Google this, but Baal is still worshipped in some places.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

Palm Beach?

While your response made me smile (thanks), I was genuinely asking with serious intent.

You can Google this, but Baal is still worshipped in some places.

I didn’t ask where the worshipers went. I asked where the gods went.

[Anonymous]

Idols are not gods, but they're worshipped as gods. They don't exist, even if people worship them.

The earth is not flat because you can find people who believe it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Gods of the nations are demons." Psalm 96:5. Any "god" that isn't the God of Abraham is a demon.

the KJV has it: "“For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.”
Nevertheless, since it was written by David, probably around 1,000 b.c. it does answer part of OP's question. Obviously there were many gods around at the time.

Where did they all go?

Palm Beach?

While your response made me smile (thanks), I was genuinely asking with serious intent.

You can Google this, but Baal is still worshipped in some places.

I didn’t ask where the worshipers went. I asked where the gods went.

??? Baal is a god. As the post indicates, it is still around in some places.