Your «god» is no more real than
any other ancient deity that was once worshipped then fell into the realm of mythology.
The bronze aged tribal middle eastern deity was exactly where
all other ancient deities were — in people's heads.
Not exact matches
What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim
deity figure derive from a war god in an
ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the
other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are
other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via
deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of
other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and
other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
One of the assumptions was that Yahweh shared the violent attributes of
other deities worshipped in the
ancient Near East.
While there is a * possibility * of a «first cause» of our universe (or god, if you want to call it that), I do not believe that any of the
deities thought up by man are real... not the Middle Eastern gods, nor those of the
ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mayans, or any of the tens of thousands of
others.
Other films include Claes Oldenburg in his studio, lovingly inspecting his eclectic knick - knack collection and dusting them with a paintbrush; the poet Michael Hamburger showing the rare apples he has grown in his Suffolk orchard - including those that originated from his friend Ted Hughes; and the artist Mario Merz, who sits in a garden like an
ancient deity, holding a pine cone and accompanied by the sound of chirruping cicadas.
When the
ancient Greeks turned their attention to the gods, demigods and
other deities of Mount Olympus, they saw a world much like their own — marked by rivalry, love, violence, deceit, ego and danger.