Yahweh, a god of war?

[Fluffy]

The ancient Hebrews were a warlike people. It's no wonder that they should project onto their deity warlike qualities.

Most cultures were like that back then. You only tend to get anti-war feelings after a particularly bad/pointless/long/meatgrinder type war. I think the longest period of such feeling is that created by WW1, before that it tended to be relatively short lived. The human being just does not inherently see much wrong with war.

 

[may]

what a loving God Jehovah is to protect his people from badness he always protects those who love him .dont think that the God of the NT is any less protective to his people, because when Armaggedon happens, (which is Gods war) those not on Jehovahs side will go down ,but the difference then will be that gods people HAVE NOT learned war they do not fight ,it is Gods war and it will happen .Gods people now do not learn war we do not fight or litrally kill others it will be Gods war. now is the time to put ourselves on Gods side . only the wicked will go down

And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;


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And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.​

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But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,


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And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace psalm 37; 10-11

 

[Smoke]

We all know that the god of Judea was violent and warlike in the old testament, is this because he was originally the war god of a larger pantheon of deities?

What do you think?

Maybe. I think the Hebrew legends preserved in the Bible have been edited and "sanitized", but still preserve evidence of polytheism -- for instance, it seems virtually certain to me that El-Elyon, the god of Melchizedek (and at least indirectly of Abraham), was not the same as Yahweh.

There's direct evidence of the amalgamation of traditions in Exodus 6: "And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Yahweh, and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Yahweh was I not known to them."