(Ron) The Evolution of Emphasis (was Isaiah 42:8)

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>HELEN:

>Or maybe, just maybe, Ron, what's going on is that Jewish religious 

thought

>

>began in polytheism and grew progressively more monotheistic. This 

causes 

>some of the earlier Jewish writing to disagree with the cosmology of 

later 

>Jewish writings, but also caused the later Jewish writers to state with 

>great emphasis the oneness of God. Then a non continuous tritheistic 

faith 

>borrowed some of the Jewish written texts that truthfully do not always 

>support the claims of this tritheistic faith. This is particularly 

amusing 

>when you realize that the tritheistic faith claims far more cosmic 

>truthfulness for much of these texts than the original Jewish faith did 

or 

>does. I presume you do believe there really was a woman named Ruth, for 

>example? Or that the Song of Solomon was actually written by Solomon 

and 

>deals with the relationship between God and his church, with God 

getting to

>

>be the boy in this epic and drink the wine from our collective navels

>(7:2)? 

>Slurp!

>Helen

>hhiwater@bright.net

>

>

RON
  Can you show conclusive evidence of this transition based on direct 
statements found in Scripture? I don't mean where Scripture quotes 
someone elses words.
  

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