Multiplicity Of "God"



What is it with "GOD" anyway? Now before I inflame my readers (the ones who believe completely in the sanctity of the book known as the "Holy Bible"), let me re-phrase my question.

Why, through-out the entire old-testament writings, does it frequently show the diety known as "God" changing his mind?

This particular article is simply another exersize in alternate thinking. For the sake of the arguement, let's allow that the creation story is the truth, and not spontaneous evolution.

This article is made for the possible evidence that there is more than one creator/guardian of this planet. If you are still here and haven't "x'd" the window, read on.

The first, and the largest idea in this article, is the story of the creation of Mankind. Something the majority of us (at least of the Western Nations, I do not discount the Eastern beliefs) were all taught in Bible School as children is that "God made Man in his image."

We also learn very early in life that there are differences in our friends, and that is because they are not the same gender as ourselves.

I could really get controversial here, and allude to the idea that "God" is dual-gendered. But I wont.

What I would like to draw attention to, however is an oft-overlooked set of texts. Deliberate or accidental, it doesn't matter, it's just overlooked. Most people I knew in Bible School either didn't read them at all, or read it quickly and made no comment.

I refer, first of all, to Genesis 1, verse 26. If you want to check it, go ahead, but here's what it says: "...God said let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves."
With the use of the plural form here, it indicates to me that there were several (or at the very least, more than one) beings who created people.

Further along in this tragic tale, after it was written about the knowledge these two people took on, is another interesting plurality. If you want to look at the third chapter of Genesis, within the 22nd verse, the creator seems to lament "The people have become like we are, knowing good and evil."

Who is the creator talking to?

This would be a good time to say that this story is indeed the most obvious suggestion of the multiplicity of god. But there are other indications. I have said very early in this article that the creation story was the largest idea I would use. But there are many other stories I could mention, taking up reader time and a lot more space in the page. I'm not going to load up the page with lots of stories. I'm sure most bible readers know the stories in the Old Testament scripts. if you want to test my biblical knowledge, feel free to *email me and I'd be happy to relate more stories.

But here's the basic gist - Anyone who has general biblical education has read how "the Lord God" is constantly dooming and condemming one group of people or another, and then changing plans and not destroying whomever it was. The story of Jonah is a classic example.

Personally, I think the story of Jonah ends rather abruptly, and in my opinion, is left unfinished. In some more modern biblical versions, it reads like a Shakespearean comedy!

As I said near the beginning, for the sake of the arguement, let's allow that the creation story is the truth. Isn't it possible, and plausible that there were many, and that during that long historical time they were occasionally at odds with each other, with one group saying to destroy some nation, and the other group countering that idea?

It is, at least, something to think about.

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