God's wife edited out of the bible -- ALMOST

[MNBrewer]

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.

<http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html>

[lapfog_1]

1. A good excuse for every philanderer on the planet

"But I was just following God's example with Mary"

[JackintheGreen]

2. He just loved Canaan too much. n/t

[lame54]

3. Jesus was a mistake

[Iggo]

21. Jesus is Hercules now. I like it. (n/t)

[Deep13]

4. Some of the comments are really sad.

Don't think about that! You'll go to hell!

Jesus, grow up, people.

[Dash87]

5. lol The comments are pure comedy on this one.

"Don't read it! You'll go to hell! Heritics!"

:rofl:

[L. Coyote]

6. The comments are interesting. Good humor and some real looney toons.

Amma

so the Aethiest died and when he woke up, he found himself at the Gates of Heaven being greeted by St. Peter.

"What am I doing here? I don't believe in this." said the aethiest

"Oh sweet man, we accept ALL souls. Come with me and I'll show you around. Here are the Hindus, here are the Buddhists and over here are your friends, the aethiests.
There is only one rule in heaven that you need to know."

"What would the rule that heaven has possibly be?" asked the aethist.

St. Peter's eyes twinkled and he laughed, jiggling his belly a bit like Santa Claus, then said,

"We do not talk to the souls behind the brick wall."

"Why do we not talk to the souls behind the brick wall? who are they?" asked the aethiest, still incredulous that he was even there in the first place.

St. Peter laughed raucously again then replied, "The Christians live behind the brick wall and think they are the only ones here."

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Remi Owolabi

Be careful when reading baseless, misleading and confusing article that can lead someone's soul to hell if belief is put into the article. Remember we are now at the latter day.

[demigoddess]

14. Once some Jehovah's Witnesses were at my door,

One said she used to be Catholic and she knew no catholics would ever get to heaven. I said what if you get to heaven and there are nothing but catholics there?? she said "Oh, that will never happen!" I would love to see her face at that moment!! I personally believe everybody goes.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R #2 for, those exploding sounds are Fundies' heads...

I like the quote in the link that says that atheists are better informed about religious matters than the non-atheists.

[Stevenmarc]

8. Honeydew List

1. Create Heaven and Earth
2. Create Night and Day
3. Create Land and Seas
4. Create Vegetation
5. Create Animals
6. Create People
7. Take me Shopping

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. Excellent new DUer screenname======>> Asherah

[patrice]

10. Sir J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough has lots of similar stories in it.

Many creation myths include a duality, extrapolation of which always produces male & female manifestations.

[patrice]

16. avatars

[JoDog]

11. And?

Jewish mysticism has long held that the divine has a feminine part or manifestation, called Shechinah. These attributes are especially manifest in the temple or acts of public prayer.

[patrice]

18. Thesis > anti-Thesis > Synthesis > Thesis > . . . etc. manifested as Male > Female = children . . .

[mimitabby]

12. fantastic!

I just read the "Red Tent" (about Dinah, son of Jacob) and Asherah was prominent in the story.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. maybe Asherah is the "holy spirit" which would help with the whole trinity thing

this would put Yahweh as "God the Father"

Asherah as the Holy Spirit

and Jesus as the Son


and as a family unit they would be 3 in 1, a holy trinity



It also makes Mary more of a surrogate mom. Sounds like Jesus was Asherah's son and Mary just brought him to term. No wonder he never looks Middle Eastern in any of the paintings. :sarcasm:






Not that I buy any of this, but people can rationalize almost anything so I allow myself to go with it.

[patrice]

15. I believe in the Holy Spirit . . . of Earth!

a rose by any other name . . .

US Labor Solidarity!

STOP THE WARS!!!

[patrice]

17. Also read any Carl Gustav Jung on Species-Memories - inherited-archetypes

[toddwv]

19. Hmmm...after reading Genesis 1 again, I'm starting a thread on my favorite forum...

"God has boobs".

That should be fun.

[dimbear]

20. In a nutshell, the facts:

The religion of most people in ancient Israel was worship of Asherah. Asherah was the goddess of the women and common folk. There is a vast amount of evidence for this, perhaps a hundred times as many figurines of Asherah as any image of Yahweh.

Then came the Babylonian captivity. Somehow after the captivity the priests of Yahweh got the upper hand, the whip hand. Asherah went to the dung heap and women went into subjugation.

The Bible wasn't edited to write out Asherah so much as it was written from scratch without her, after the return from the Babylonian captivity. She joined the other defunct gods and goddesses of the Israelites, somewhere near the Golden Calf.

The Jews started out as polytheists, just like most other primitive people in the area, and rejected most of them one by one. It's in the book.