Sentences with phrase «war god yahweh»
Hopefully, you know that the bible is a collection of myths, mostly fictional bloody history, rife with contradictions and a tribal war god yahweh that would make Stalin and Hitler blush.
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its a curse you should have though about it after what you did to the Midianites Yahweh is an evil war god bent only on destruction he thought he could get away with attacking Asherah and Baal, then steal the land on which their bound to.
Regardless, you have not only the Crusades, but the Spanish Inquisition, George W.'s phony Iraq / Afghanistan wars, WWII, WWI, the European invasion and of the Americas and consequent slaughter of countless natives, all the «god» - ordained wars in the Old Testament in which Yahweh told Israel to go do «his» dirty work for «him», the KKK, the Salem «witch» trials, slavery in the US (and all of its ugly murders), etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. to contend with.
Yahweh was the god of war and described as jealous of other gods.
The Hebrews chose Yahweh (the Babylonian war god, «the lord of hosts»....
Yahweh started out as the god of war in the Canaanite Pantheon of gods.
One can not hate something that does not exist, no no I have no feelings one way or another about any of the gods, especially the ancient Babylonian war deity, (Yahweh Sabaoth..
Over time, Yahweh the war god won out over the others.
It is to be expected since they worship Yahweh Saboath the Hebrew god of war.
The classical model of all apocalyptic may be found in Daniel 7 [see below]... it is only after a great war of destruction, a «Day of Yahweh» or day of the Great Judgment, that the dominion of God will begin.2
Yahweh, originally a Canaanite God of War was one of many Gods including Baal and though now equated with El Elyon / El Shaddai, was not always so.
However, Yahweh was the war god of the Canaanite pantheon.
At first, therefore, Yahweh as the storm god of Sinai, or as the war god of the migrant tribes, or even as the agricultural god of Canaan, had nothing to do with Sheol; the underworld of the dead was outside his realm.