The world seems chaotic and disordered. There is no sense to the way good people suffer while evil people prosper. If it weren't for the Bible, I would believe there were many gods, at war with each other, with mortals mere pawns in their game.
Really? Because people believed in polytheism for thousands of years before the monotheistic religions. Are you saying all those millions of people are/were irrational?
God's warring at eachother with us at the center? Lol, that's the issue with faith, believers look at the world like its Middle-Earth or some other high fantasy bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Believers think that mankind is the center of the universe and that there are other-worldly forces constantly fighting over us. That just isn't the case; the world is chaotic because it was born by chance and bears no significance other than what we give it. Also, the one thing that the Trinity, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, Odin, Cthulhu (lmfao), and all the other gods have in common is that there isn't any evidence which suggests one is more likely to exist than the rest. There's thousands of gods and if you choose the wrong one you'll be condemned to hell by another (assuming one existed). It's pointless; you should abandon you're faith in favor of Nihilism. It's bleak but it makes sense.
Interesting observation. The Hebrew people were polytheist before and after the exodus. Many parts of the Bible attest to this as does History, Archeaology and so forth. The move to strict monotheism did not really take hold until well into the first millenium BC. It was after the move to monotheism that Bible was written and so those that edited the stories of the past to create the OT did so with monotheism in mind. They kept many stories of the pagan past but they left out the evolution of monotheism from the Trinity of El, Baal, and Asherah. El is the father, Asherah the consort/wife, and Baal the son. Even the God of the Bible does not say there are not other Gods. He only says that the Israelites are to worship only him. " You shall have no other Gods before me" I would argue that the move to monotheism created more chaos and conflict rather than less. Both the Jews and Christians had problems because of their claim to only one God. From the time of Constantine the idea of one God was used by Religious and Political leaders to subjugate people. These leaders claimed to be God's spokesperson on earth or to have Divine right and so were unchallengable. All kinds of unspeakable horrors were committed in the name of the one God. At the height of the Israelite Empire (King Solomon) Israel worshiped many Gods. At the height of the Babylonian and Greek Empires many Gods were worshiped. The American Empire became great because of the Constitution .. IMO. This document was created in part to take Religion out of State affairs and allowed for the belief of many Gods. As the American Empire declines I look around and see denegration of the Constitution in relation to its emphasis on individual rights and freedoms. It is not only the Religious right that is responsible for this admitted however they are one of the worst offenders. I look around and see folks and countries fighting over Religion. It is not the believe in one God that I see as the problem but when the masses try to force personal beliefs based on others on the basis that "this is what God says". The idea that there is only one God has
That's not the way logic works. You have no proof that there aren't invisible, intangible pink unicorns dancing on your head. Are you going to believe in them just because some book tells you they are real? You shouldn't believe in anything that evidence has not been demonstrated for.
It's certainly possible and I hope that there are, but we have yet to find any ofthem or evidence of their existence. We could very well be alone, although the Drake Equation makes that highly unlikely.
Polygamy is not outlawed in the bible. The only time it is even mentioned is the part that says that church Bishops can only have one wife. Bishops are the only ones who are not allowed to be polygamists.
