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Are you saying the branching of Judaism into Catholicism then the multitude of offshoot Christian denominations is analogous to the differences between Judaism and the Norse pantheon or Native American animistic beliefs?

Again, if you asked a Jew from 2000 years ago if a snake handling church was an eventual possibility, he would be enraged. So if you add an additional 5000 years to the founding of Judaism to get to snake handlers, then yes you can expect the branchings to get even more broad as in Nordic religion, and animalistic beliefs

Because it is a certainty that sects of Jews worshipped idols of animal. How much time would you really need to get to the worship of cows in India, or nature in a new world from a migrating tribe?

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Except that they worship the same God. That's a pretty big link.

Wow, you missed the entire point. Again. For the Bible to be correct, we all once worshipped the same God. But due to cultural migrations his name has been changed, as well as the rituals in observing him. Heard of the trinity? 3 gods, yet the same? How long has that been around? A whole lot less time than it would have taken to go from El Shaddai to Buddha

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I get the feeling you want to tell me what this is, but you don't want to ruin your "credibility"

I have no idea what this even means. You need to quit conjuring up things that continue to reinforce my understanding of your intelligence

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Posted by WildManGoose

Member since Nov 2005

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Posted on 11/9/19 at 1:59 pm to RobbBobb

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For the Bible to be correct, we all once worshipped the same God. But due to cultural migrations his name has been changed, as well as the rituals in observing him. Heard of the trinity? 3 gods, yet the same? How long has that been around? A whole lot less time than it would have taken to go from El Shaddai to Buddha

You're beginning from a position that the bible is a legitimate, written history and making up a whack theory to justify your belief. We did not all worship the same God. Nothing you have said is supported in anyway by written record or archaeology. The old testament is a derivative of earlier works like the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is fictional.