Post by lawreyI find your side tracking into the tetrogrammaton,
No, it was you who used the term, "Jehovah" which is merely
a derivative of YHVH.
Post by lawreytransliterated into YHWH or JHVH quite astonishing!
YHVH is use by most of the Jewish people I know.
Post by lawreyAnd obviously pure
camouflage for your ignorance of our history.
Really!
Post by lawreyIf you look back to the
'Book of the Dead' 3500 B.C. and our very earliest recordings you will
learn, contrary to your beliefs, that there was only a Polytheistic
system of gods in place
Nice, try. I've studied the ancient religions. BTW, the earliest
Egyptian
dynasty had a clearly defined monotheistic religion. It is only in the
following dynasties that polytheism came to be popular. And as Budge,
one of the greatest of the Egyptologist, records, often, when studied,
the polytheism of the later dynasties were not really "many gods" but
rather, many names for one God.
Post by lawreyand as I have already said it was not until
Amenhotep lV that Monotheism came into being,
You need to read a bit more. Might I suggest Austen Layard's
"Early Adventures in Persia." You will probably have to stop off
at the Library of Congress in DC, because that is the only place
I could find a copy for myself. "Discoveries in the Ruins of
Nineveh and Babylon" are there as well. Very interesting reading.
Something easier to find is Wikinson's "Egyptians." I found a
couple volumes at a local university. He too cooberates Budge's
research concerning the fact that monotheism was Egypt's
earliest monothesim. And if that isn't enough, Egypt also
had a monotheistic triad religion. Not equivilent to Christianities
Trinitarianism, but close enough to draw a few comparisions to.
Also, your mentioning of the Book of the Dead, you should read
Budge's account of it in comparision with some of the Christian
confessions of faith. I believe that accounting is in his, "From
Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt."
Post by lawreyand was rejected. If you
care to read, 'The Philosophy Of One on the Many', you will find all
the references you require to back up everything I say. As for making
accusations; I make none! I deal only in facts, not beliefs.
Ya, right.
Post by lawreyMy work is
a factual account of history, well documented for those who are
interested in truth instead of pagan beliefs. Read and learn my friend
there is no defense in ignorance.
Done my own research.
Post by lawreyEven Jesus at the last came to
realise that what he had been taught was wrong and there was no god.
His final words were: "E'li, E'li, la'ma sa-bach-tha'ni?" He knew then,
that the god he had preached so faithfully about and taught was real
was indeed metaphysical and could not be called upon!
Nice try. Old argument that has more than dutifully refuted, just as
the
evolutionary presupposition of polytheism to monotheism. Just as
stupid
logically if you will but think it through. Did man suddenly think,
"Oh,
there is a God" and then at the same instant believe there were many
gods? Rather like fish with gills walking out onto land. If they had
lungs
they would drown. If they had gills, they wouldn't be out of dry land.
Not
very well thought through.
Post by lawreyThere was, nor
ever has been such a being as god save in the minds of men who wish to
believe it. His name or rather what the Hebrews care to call him is
irrelivant.
Well, this things are not gained by the reasoning of men. God, by very
definition, is beyond men's reasoning. Therefore, He must reveal
Himself.
This He has done. However, like the majority of men, you have refused
the
revelation that has been given so with the rejection of light comes
further
darkness.
As I wrote earlier, "Basically your post is little more than flame
bait."
Might I also suggest two other scholarly works:
"Manners & Customs of Anceint Egyptians," again, by the British
Museum scholar of the 1800's, John Gardner Wilkinson.
And for a better understanding of the Biblical declaration of plurality
of the Godhead in the Jewish Testament, read, "The Triunity of God
is Jewish," by John B Metzger.
And a word of advice, don't presume that everyone is unlearned in
what they post here. I've have spent several years studying the
ancient mystery religions from Babylon on into Rome. Nor am I
ignorant of Rabbinic Judaism and their commentaries on the Tulmud,
oral law and other rabbinical stides. Rabbinic Judaism with the
oral law which is the heart of the Mishnah, which is the core of
the Talmud. Rabbinic Judaism follows the interpretations of the
rabbis to the neglect of Scriptures.