Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus by William Harwood

Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus William Harwood ebook
ISBN: 9780879757427
Format: pdf
Page: 416
Publisher: Prometheus Books

May 1, 2014 - Why is Peter, a Jew, assigning Greek mythology characteristics and actions to the one God, YHWH? Jesus would be one of these Benevolent teachers. The most mystical and theological of the four gospels in the New Testament is the Book of John, the latest of the four (written between the years 90 and 100 CE) and it has clearly been influenced by (pagan) Platonic philosophy. Jan 6, 2014 - If El was the high God of Abraham—Elohim, the prototype of Yahweh…” – See 2 Kings 23:15 -The Oxford Companion to World Mythology-. Feb 5, 2013 - In a bible study I'm part of we have been going through the book of Hebrews. By saying that Jesus doesn't change, especially in this changing world, the writer of Hebrews is saying Jesus is God (Yahweh). .Benevolent teacher, not really god. Sounds like we have given the teachers "god" status. Ok, so what does it mean to say that God doesn't change? Besides the obvious commonalities of such themes with other ancient religions now taught as mythology, this hardly appears to be monotheistic at all. Yahweh can't possibly visit Earth, so he must send another entity. We're on the last chapter, where we've been somewhat (and yet happily) stuck, and last week ended up covering a single verse (Hebrews 13:8): "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. After the exile (which was one of the final nails in the coffin of worldwide matriarchal religious structures), people like Elijah went around and killed all who still followed her and had any reference to her destroyed. Apr 8, 2014 - To put it simply “Jesus was God made flesh,” and to have deity here on this planet as a human was a one-time only thing, never before written about or comprehended. The head of these teachers is what we think of as god, but there is a chain of command.