More than one God

Greg, Nancy, and James Todd todds@pa.net
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:44:42 -0500 (00888785082, 199803011444.JAA17839@emh1.pa.net) 


>GARY:

> Still the LORD, YAHWEH, says, Isa 45:21 .....Who

>> has

>> declared this from ancient time? ....Have not I, the LORD? And there is no

>> other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.

>> How do these fit together?  Is there God that is different than the Savior?

>

>MICHAEL MCGILL(2/28)

>

>Isaiah 45:21,22 seems to contradict Exodus 18:11, "Now I know that the 

>LORD is greater

>than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above 

>them." Here we have the Bible alluding to the existence of more than one 

>god. Note that it does not say 

>"the Lord is the only god" but rather that he "is greater than all gods."

>

>

NANCY
The ancient Hebrews seem to have first become monolators, and over time
developed into monotheists. Worship of one god out of the many came first,
and this later developed into a belief in the existence of one and only one
god. Even the commandment "you shall have no other gods besides me"
indicates monolatry rather than monotheism.

Nancy Todd
todds@pa.net