Does the Bible actually tell us there are many gods? That would make more sense given God's prohibition against worshiping other gods... [Spirituality & Religion]

Thank you very much for this video.

I've never encountered such a thorough exploration of all the surviving texts, how they compare relative to their dates of origin, and a logical analysis of the implications.

My husband is Jewish and reads and speaks Hebrew - so I had heard about the interchangeable uses of El and Elohim in the Book of Genesis in the Torah.
To me, the widespread worship in ancient times of Asherah as the bride of God is proof that Judaism evolved and changed in proto-historial times (concurrent with cuneiform scripts). Archeologists have found thousands of small backyard shrines to Asherah throughout the tells (ancient towns) of Israel and the Middle East; it looks as though Jewish, Canaanite and Aramaic housewives regularly prayed to her.

If God commanded that his believers believe only in him, and was willing to punish them for disobedience, this suggests that he was extremely jealous of other gods. Why be jealous if he is the only god? Doesn't make any sense. So I think the leaders of the faith had a political need to gradually re-write their texts to exclude as many hints or references to other gods as possible.

I've always thought of the bible as sort of "creeping monotheism." The whole first part of Genesis isn't really all that original and most of the stories can be found in other places, but the farther along you go, the more monotheistic it gets.

You do have to wonder though, in the world in the time of Jesus, man didn't travel as easily as we do now, so who's to say that the "God" of the Christian bible is "The one True God", maybe the Buddhists were right and it's Buddha, or maybe it's Vishnu. The Muslims believe in Allah, who's to say they're wrong? Christians are very self-righteous in their belief in the "One true God" but can they prove what they say, no? Neither can the Buddhists or the Hindus or anyone else who worships some God. It's all conjecture and interpretation from one as much as the other religion. Hey maybe it's Elohim or the Thetans, or Aliens, no one truly knows for certain, it may all be BS...

The Canaanites had a polytheistic religion. But Abraham worshipped what he considered the one true god. The creator of all things. He deemed those others as false "stone" gods. Gods who were nothing more than mere statues. It was believed back then that building a statue and worshipping it brought you favour from that made up god. The Jews constantly made rules against statue worship. They had stories about such things as well. The tower of Babel, the city of Jericho, the plagues of Egypt, the Ten Commandments, etc. They all talk about people worshiping these stone gods and all being let down by their false gods over the one true god of the Israelites. And why are all these stories there? Because a lot of people worshipped polytheism. Israel and Judah were very multicultural. Many of the people living there believed in other gods. Yahweh was very much the god of the Israelites and so if you weren't an Israelite you really had no reason to worship him.

The earliest people of Abraham believed in many gods but only worshipped yahweh. That is why the first commandment is I am the Lord thy God though shall have no other gods before me instead of I am the one and only god. Genesis still has hints of polytheism with words like "they" etc

There are as many gods as you can imagine existing. In reality there are none.

DEUTERONOMY chapter 6, verse 4, read one god.

No.

Demons want to be god! When I first became schizophrenic they all told me that they were god! I was like NO You’re NOT! They’re deceptive little bastards! But I wasn’t going to be fooled!

I always found it funny that God and angels have sperm in order to impregnate people.