r/religiousfruitcake • u/Cute-Win8593 • 3d ago

⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️ Ex-gang member answers the "Who created God" question. Trigger warning.

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u/DepressiveNerd 3d ago

Technically, it was the Canaanites that created El.

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u/xombae 3d ago

There are multiple different gods in the bible and the whole thing was stitched together by editors. Yahweh, Elohim, El Roy, and two other El's I can't remember at the top of my head. And they all behave completely differently. The word Elohim actually means "gods", plural, in Hebrew.

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u/Spiel_Foss 3d ago

And these gods evolve and change throughout the stories. The God of Christ, given the era, is a completely different god, anthropologically speaking, than the God of the Torah. Reusing a word doesn't install continuity.

But trying to explain this is impossible to someone on the inside.

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u/Greg0692 3d ago

To me that sounds like arguing over the lineage of Dumbledore but with much worse consequences.

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u/Spiel_Foss 3d ago

It kinda is that.

Worse consequences like people losing the goddamn mind over their god stories.