Thread:User talk:Mikalos209/Hebrew Gendering/reply (4)

YHWH is also very limited by some kind of unwritten rules. He cannot "find" adam in the garden. He must kill people just to get his way. he's an amoral jerk quite often, by the way.

Pre-monotheistsic isrelite religion is a trip and a half. What we "know" (informed guess, might be the best term) is pretty extensive, actually. Not that any Christians and only a few Jews will likely EVER agree with what is found. :-) God has always been one and only one.

I've always played around with (on a non published level) 'how one becomes monothesitic", and it's almost always "science" that is in my answer. We begin to understand that lightening is not a god; that rain is not a god; children come from sex, etc., and that pushes "gods" father away.  and as they are more and more removed, they cease being so human, and become something more "universal".   To the point that today, if there are any religious folk in science, their "god" is almost as removed from a personal god as you can get.  "creator", "first mover", "part of everything" etc.