Re:On the Shortness of Life - Seneca (50 AD)
by barry-cotter on Saturday March 13, 2010 @04:25PM
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You will have no gods before me
That's henotheistic not monotheistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism#Judaism
Re:On the Shortness of Life - Seneca (50 AD)
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday March 14, 2010 @05:17PM
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Well, I've never seen that claim promoted seriously for the Jews who followed Yahweh. Yahweh has many names, granted, and there are many false gods mentioned in the OT, the point being they are not gods but people worshipped them as such.
Example, in Exodus 3:6 (NIV)
'Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.'
So Abraham, Jacob and Isaac were monotheists. Moses was a afraid to look at God, not to look at "a god". Monotheism.
The reference to the triune creator God as plural is not unsurprising.
So the Jews weren't monotheistic and the Torah never had "you will have no gods before me" in it? You might say, "that's not modern monotheism" but how can that be as Christians worship that same God.