You crack me up ding. You know I'm not militant. I may be atheist, but I'm not sure yet.
Just saying your God in the ot, is schizophrenic, and that's so. It's the telephone game from Sumerian writings which had multiple gods, specifically en.lil and en.ki.
En.lil followers conquered, and en.ki followers had to retreat to the underground. Not literally, but they had to stay quiet or face death.
En.lil wanted to destroy us. En.ki wanted to save us. He was the serpent who told ziasudra to build a vessel to save us from the upcoming flood. He saved us.
In your religon, en.lil became "God", while en.ki became "Satan".
Thus the "Brotherhood of the Snake" began. And is the basis of secret societies today. Though they don't necessarily know it.
That's why God (en.lil) smites us, while the Lord (en.ki) loves us in the next paragraph. That's why the Biblical god is schizophrenic. There's at least two different people caught up in the telephone game. And it's all based on the original Sumerian texts from 4000 bc
Your Trinity religons tried to merge the multiple "gods" as one.
Dude, you already called it. It's the telephone game and you got the wrong message. I got the right message.
But my point still stands. Before the great migration we would expect those people to have the same culture and heritage and that's why you see similarities.
Here let me help you with the message.
1. God created existence
2. Everything he created is good
3. What he created was done in steps
4. Man is a product of that creation
5. Man is unlike any other creature in creation
6. Man is made in God’s image in that he is a being which knows and creates
7. Man was told to go forth and be fruitful
8. Man was told to do as the original creator; to create for 6 days and then rest
9. Man knows right from wrong
10. Rather than abandoning the concept of right and wrong when man does wrong, he rationalizes he didn’t do wrong
11. Successful behaviors naturally lead to success
12. Failed behaviors naturally lead to failure
13. Pass it down to the next generation