Zone1 The Ten Commandments don't apply to us.

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Your definition of monotheism is more like a prime mover theory

How so?

 

[The Irish Ram]

 

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but I am using an understanding of the text that is significantly subtler than a simple reading -- the written words aren't gospel. The entire concept is and that is explained and fleshed out as part of a larger theology. You are reducing it to my "taking these accounts as gospel" and repeatedly insisting that humans were the authors. I disagree. Simple as that.

The lessons these authors were teaching were lost through time. I'm not reducing anything. You are convinced that God wrote these accounts. I'm explaining to you that these accounts were written by men for specific reasons. The early accounts were allegorical accounts of historical events because that's how they passed down knowledge back then. Polytheists had oral histories they passed down which had polytheistic slants. Same for the monotheists. They had oral histories they passed down and they had monotheistic slants.

 

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So I know.

you can't know, so you believe. I can't know so I believe also.

I didn't provide a definition. I was explaining the key difference between polytheism and monotheism.

except that that isn't a difference between them.

These accounts were adopted from polytheistic myths during a time when polytheism was the dominant belief of the land. And was then passed down orally from generation to generation for thousands of years. The original meaning was lost through time. For example, the Tower of Babel was about a migration away from Mesopotamia. It was an historical event that was embellished to teach lessons about the covenant, obedience and justice. That's how they passed down noteworthy historical events back then.

that is your view.

 

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How so?

here is a quick AI generated summary

"The philosophical concept of the Prime Mover (or Unmoved Mover), originally advanced by Aristotle, is defined as a primary cause that initiates all motion in the universe without itself being moved. In this framework, this "God" is completely detached from the physical world, remaining uninvolved in its day-to-day operations"

 

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The lessons these authors were teaching were lost through time. I'm not reducing anything. You are convinced that God wrote these accounts. I'm explaining to you that these accounts were written by men for specific reasons.

you cannot explain, only claim

The early accounts were allegorical accounts of historical events because that's how they passed down knowledge back then. Polytheists had oral histories they passed down which had polytheistic slants. Same for the monotheists. They had oral histories they passed down and they had monotheistic slants.

great summary of your belief. Thanks.