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presupposes there are other gods they could be listening to

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Again, that is eisegesis and ahistorical. You can keep repeating it, but it's a juvenile misunderstanding of a simple concept. It's doesn't mean that they thought the "gods" were real in the same noumenal sense as YHWH, except for when they characterized them as demonic and not to be worshipped. You are wrong on this just like everything else

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not to do their will

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List the verses

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it’s not a translation difference. The source texts are different

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Prove that the authors of the ESV ("all gods") and the NASB ("you nations") are quoting "different source texts" of Deuteronomy 32:43 as opposed to the more parsimonious explanation that they are merely referring to the same thing - pagan "false" gods and people of other nations which also matches meaning found elsewhere in scripture. You're actually trying to assert that conservative evangelical textual scholars are quoting a DSS manuscript for the express purpose of describing polytheism while all of the other textual scholars are quoting the MT in order to preserve monotheism.

You are off your freaking rocker. Where are you getting this crap, the loons at skeptics annotated bible?

And BTW, the "older" extant text is not always the accurate one. The Essenes were considered deviant and eccentric. That's why it's not helpful to quote a strictly Essene characterization for Judaic theological purposes without acknowledging they were outside the mainstream. That's likely why the MT clarifies the phrase so there's no confusion. Well, at least among rational people, not you apparently. And it doesn't matter anyway because:

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the Dead Sea scrolls and from the Septuagint talk about the gods in the skies

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Now you're getting into variants which I'm almost 100% positive you don't understand. This is out of your academic depth.

?????? ???????? is NOT "gods in the sky." As I have already corrected you on this, it means sons of God which is equivocal to sons of Israel. Two references to the same people.

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The Masoretic Text, which is much younger has been edited to remove some of the polytheism

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No and I just explained this so you can stop saying this stupidity. The Samaritan Penteteuch also agrees with the MT so that is even more corroboration

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They relocated / exiled parts of the populations of every people group they conquered

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Not specifically in the Levant and you're once again being disingenuous. There was a short Assyrian campaign into Tyre and Byblos starting in 745 and then there was another tiny excursion into Sidon in 671. Guess what happened between that? 30 years of exiling the Israelites. Babylon was essentially the same with 3 waves of deportations happening over 3 decades.

So the question remains - if the Jews were just another small Canaanite tribe that looked essentially like all the other tribes, why did the mighty Assyrian and Babylonian empires focus so heavily on the Jews for such a long time with multiple deportations through both empires? How were the Jews so distinct for that to happen? It makes no sense and is ahistorical. The Assyrians pretty much only cared about Tyre and the Babylonians pretty much only cared about breaking Egyptian influence. Since those were the military objectives, why focus so much on the insignificant, little ole Jews who ostensibly had no influence in the area?

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You’re presupposing those prophetic works are all ancient and historical

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There we go! "Wah. If I don't like what it says, it was made up and fake."

So you're basically saying the strict monotheism of the prophets which predates any of the alleged polytheism and is completely historical is LESS believable than your fantastical speculations which matches basically nothing from history?

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They were a spec of sand on the beach in terms of their religious behavior

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:lol: Kings had them as close advisors. They carried massive, huge theological, practical, social and even military weight. You have this 180 degrees wrong.

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Everyone else around them were worshipping all the gods of heaven

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Not everyone

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They worshipped all the gods of the Canaanite pantheon. That is an archaeological fact

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What you're not telling the court is that not everyone did this and it didn't happen all the time. I have pointed this out to you already but you keep repeating already refuted assertions

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That never happened

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You said "no scholars" and I gave you a list of scholars. I proved you wrong

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Do you see any irony or hypocrisy there?

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No. I proved you wrong. Did you even bother to study their works so you could learn how you are wrong or did you just continue to be ignorant? Clearly the latter. Does it bother you that you are ignorant of competing scholarship that refutes your stupid ideas?

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I don’t even believe those “prophets” were real historical people

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Because you are a delusional person. That is called cognitive disonance. You are emotionally ignoring something that falsifies your worldview. It's the mark of an intellectual loser and a mental midget.

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that polytheism came first, and still exists in the Bible is a fact

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This farce has been torn to shreds itt.

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Paul was a Gnostic

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Laughably false

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Paul didn’t even believe Jesus came to earth, and that his death and resurrection occurred in the heavens, and that only those who possessed the heavenly secrets of Jesus’ sacrifice would be saved. One of those secrets was that Yahweh (Greek “Kyrios”) had taken a body of flesh and been killed by the gods of the firmament and then exalted and earned the name “Jesus”

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This is the most incredible example of building a castle in the air that I have ever encountered

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If it weren’t for him, we probably wouldn’t have any of Paul’s epistles today

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You have got to be the most delusional person ever. 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 is considered the earliest Christian creed meaning, Paul received it prior to anything he had written. If 1 Thessalonians was written around 49–51 CE and he had already received the creed which was already in circulation by prior believers, that testimony about Jesus' EARTHLY crucifixion must have been in practice merely a few years after Jesus' death. There's almost no gap between Jesus' death and the circulation of Paul's works stating that Jesus was crucified and there were witnesses.

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the Gnostics believed the god the Jews worshipped was evil, and so they did not worship the Jewish god

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SOME Gnostics believed that along with numerous other crazy things

It is absolutely astonishing how truly mixed up and utterly wrong you are on these matters. It's impressive how one person could accumulate such a monumental and stupendous amount of ahistorical beliefs

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So they are mentioned. Glad we agree on that

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Not in the form of them thinking false gods were real or to worship the false gods

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they didn’t believe the golden bull was a god. It was an idol that represented their patron deity, Yahweh

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The text isn't 100% clear on that but it doesn't matter. The point I was making was in reference to worshipping something worldly as opposed to YHWH, which is also the point of the passage. With Moses gone, they wanted something tangible and visceral and copied Apis from Egypt. So again, in response to your Psalms references, don't worship false gods. They are not real like YHWH is real.

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Nope

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So you're denying reality. Ok. What happened when Moses returned? What were the prophets preaching against?

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This is a constant complaint and lament of the major and minor prophets which you have never read

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Idol worship, yes. Thoroughgoing polytheism, no. It makes no sense. The prophets were Judaic. Why would they be preaching conservative traditional Judaism if polytheism had been the religion all along? It makes no sense. And this is all supposedly hundreds of years before the "switch" to monotheism. You've never explained the timeline.

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I’m not going to respond to every minor retarded thing you allege

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The cry of a loser. When questioned to substantiate your retarded views, you can't.

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This guy?

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helping incite riots :lol:

Do you know what "helping" and "riots" mean? Of course you don't. You can't have a one man "riot."

And did that one person burn down an entire section of the city. No.

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Bama Mountain

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Stop being a wus. Has a healthcare professional diagnosed you as being mentally ill like other liberals/progressives?

Why are so many Democrats and progressives mentally ill?

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The fact that the "Pelosi Guy" was obsessed with right wing conspiracy theories is well documented

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I've already refuted this lie

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“The takeaway I got is that she wants to turn our schools into pedophile molestation factories

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This is NOT "right wing" you buffoon

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He voted in Republican primaries

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:lol:

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The claim that he was close to Tim Waltz is a lie

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Who is saying "close"?

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He is an outspoken evangelical Christian

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Even if this is correct, which is debatable, THAT'S ONE. Even if you're right, which you aren't, the left has about a million more of these examples, mentally ill people who either threaten violence against people who don't bow down to the LGBT mercenaries or actually commit violence against them

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If the MAGA media machine

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There is no such thing. That's made up in your head

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what else are they lying to you about?

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Says someone who posts information from FREAKING ANNENBERG

Are you mentally ill like other leftists?

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He is one of your guys

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That stupid citation just reiterated that "the roommate said" blah blah blah

Do you have any brains?

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who had a long of Democratic target

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:lol: Yeah that wasn't planted.

How about you check out the list I posted. You won't dare touch that topic

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You mean like the Trump supporter who shot multiple Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota?

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Vance Boelter's roommate says Boelter “voted for Trump” and is "a strong supporter.”

Oh so now we're going with "the roommate said" as hard hitting journalism

Are you the most gullible person on the planet? And I noticed you haven't acknowledge the list I posted. Why is that?

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the GOP Candidate who shot at multiple Democratic lawmakers?

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Your stupid link doesn't work. Like your stupid brain

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Bama Mountain

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Here are the loons you're defending

Is this you?

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Losing 78% of the time is "consistently won"?

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He's infinitely less of a loser than you are

How many peace treaties did you preside over

BUT MUH KING HATES THE CONSTITUTION

you're a joke of a human being