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Originally Posted by BigJohn
Maybe, but.........
Yahweh became the predominate God of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Parts of the Bible were not written from the Northern Kingdom of Israel's viewpoint. Those specific writings were written from the Kingdom of Judah's viewpoint. When the 2 government's fought against each other, I suspect the real cause was not fully documented in the Bible. One of the main causes of the battles seems to revolve around Yahweh's consort Asherah.
Archaeologists have 'dugged up' ample evidence of this. Her statues, alongside Yahweh's statue, portray her as a woman with a male appendage.
I suspect this 'anomaly' put Yahweh in such a position that attributes to one of the reasons why Yahweh's name is not known by most people and the obversion of certain sexual practices.
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I've been suspecting for quite some time that Yahweh was just a lower god.