• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    11 hours ago

    Here’s a fun fact: Some scholars believe Genesis 1 is a later addition than the rest of the story, because Judaism was originally polytheistic.

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        2 hours ago

        Correct, and fundamentally you don’t make laws to prohibit something nobody is doing.

        A few different gods had to get rationalized or syncretized in one way or another as I understand it.

        Not only Baal but that pesky Asherah and her complicated and inconvenient situationship with YHWH.