You don't want to discuss you want to argue. Find someone else. Have the last word if you want.
as I suspected your not taking your time and thinking about what your wrote.
you painted yourself in a corner.
Its not about argueing bud, its about the truth and history and not letting theism close your mind.
Here are the facts about the abrahamic deities that turned into a deity
Yahweh was worshipped long before Israelites existed in others mythology.
El was worshipped a long time before Yahweh existed by Mesopotamians who in turn influenced Canaanites.
when Israelites formed from displaced Canaanites after 1200 BC they inherited the deities of their fathers and culture before them. At this time many of the major civilizations had collapsed, and many different semetic communities and people from all over the levant had migrated to the highlands of Israel slowly! The majority were Canaanites though, and not escaped Egyptian slaves as written.
Israelites started worshipping a family of gods, El the father and Yahweh and Baaal the sons. Asherah was Els wife/consort. There were other deities but these 4 were the primary deities. The evolution of these deities was wide and varied. El was the "father" deity and yahweh a warrior deity. In times of war people rallied around yahweh. In times of peace El and Asherah and Baal became more popular.
there were different people loyal to different deities at differnt times. Around 800BC we see yahweh take on all Els traits as the father and Asherah as yahwehs wife. But this was only worshipped by some tribes in some geographic locations. deity worship was dynamic to say the least. At some points we had Yahweh worshipped in the south and El in the north as primary.
It wasnt unti King Josiah around 622 BC who was a strict yahwist reformed the culture to monoheism, which still took hundreds of years to impliment within the religion, none the less, monotheism was born.
yahweh was the new national deity, and books were written and redacted around this new movement within judaism.
Yahweh had taken on all Els traits permanantly and some of Baals as well, Baal and Asherah redacted out of all scripture as primary deities but here traces can still be found. After the fall of the temple in the babylonian exile, all scripture took on more Mesopotamian influences burying the Cananites history and and new Egyptian herritage forged.
the abrahamic deity should not ever be called such because, as a man abraham never existed. And the deity never was abrahamic, it was Canaanite.
This is the real history of Israelites and the OT and the formation and compilation of the deities into a deity.
is this what you knew?
