Moses was converted into Yahwism in Sinai desert seing burning bush. Then fires from the mountaintop inspired him to give his people 10 new principles of faith. So the religion of Jews en route from Egypt to Palestine was changed once and for all.
Was that Thera (Greece) volcano with columns of smoke and fire visible across the Med struck him that hard that he saw it as a revelation of a real, terrific god Yahweh? God of volcano eruption, fear and terror? Moses abandoned his older gods from Egypt, and various Baals, and created a totally new religion - that of one, powerful and deadly god. The god that secretly protects all Jews once they follow Mosaic instructions.
What if their Exodus happened some time before that great volcanic eruption? Would we have now a religion of Egypt, or maybe Mithraism, or even better that of Zoroaster?
2007-02-03
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Yahweh is another name for God,did you not know that God is known,by many names
2007-02-03 19:50:20
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answered by TOM 5
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He is an ancient volcano God.
1. "Yahweh is added here because there was a short time in which He was simply part of the Canaanite pantheon. When the Khabiru moved into Israel, their young Volcano God, known as Yahweh (or "Everflowing"), was accepted as a Son of El; and he joined the court of El as cupbearer along with Baal. Later, Yahweh was equated with El, and Asherah became His wife."
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2."Jehovah-Yehova was most probably a volcano god. This superior entity has entered the scene with the famous stories of Exodus, and the Law-giving. Egyptians could not have worshipped him, because there are no volcanoes in Egypt, active or inactive, young or ancient."
2007-02-03 19:51:50
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answered by Anonymous
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I do not believe Moses could have influenced all of Israel to follow him and trust him unless God had been performing miracles to confirm his existence to them.
Such as when God parted the red sea so that the Israelites walked across the sea on dry land, or how God fed them with bread from the sky (manna), how God made water flow from a rock, etc. The account of the giving of the 10 commandments describes clearly what happened: there was a loud and long trumpet blast, and peals of thunder and smoke on the mountaintop. This could not have been a volcno, the eruption would have burned the Israelites alive since they were at the base of the mountain.
And what of the various plagues in Egypt? When God struck down the firstborn of every family in Egypt, where he brought frogs and locusts, and turned the waters of the Nile into blood?
It is not so easy to explain away the miracles of God.
2007-02-03 19:53:00
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answered by Anonymous
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No Yahweh came from the minds of ancient ignorant men who also believed that if you got too close to the edge of the earth, you fell off. Unfortunately, religion has forced us to accept a god concept from people who were wrong about so many things.
2007-02-03 19:55:36
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answered by liberty11235 6
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no not a volcano. otherwise the bush would have been consumed by the fire.
God is in another diminsion. and when He does make a personal appearance he radiates light different then humans do. check out the mount of transfiguration in which selected disiples saw Jesus, Moses and Elijah talking with each other. Also the whirlwind and light that was seen by the people traveling with paul on his road to damascus.
2007-02-03 20:07:59
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answered by sodajerk50 4
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answer: i might have a sparkling faith, my cutting-edge one, Orthodox Christian. faith is (portion of) our life and it relatively is not approximately worry, no longer in recent times. faith is in basic terms about the know-how of all the cases right into a perception, which isn't in keeping with worry, yet ON know-how, love, information, reasoning, historic past of human form ... Into the case you defined i may be relatively surprised and that i may be avid to be attentive to as much as conceivable with reference to the hot faith, my relatively one, which regardless of if it relatively is taught in the churces or study study advert literam, it relatively is heavily comprehensible, nonetheless. Any faith might desire to be lived simply by fact the life in itself, interpretated, understood by very own reviews. faith isn't yet stable experience utilized on the particular situations of a quantity of time. This situations had replaced, regrettably is that persons regularly replace and wash in basic terms their clothing, yet do no longer replace their recommendations, behavior, do no longer wash their souls by and in basic terms by love - simply by fact it relatively is rather puzzling! it relatively is Christianism approximately, love. i in my opinion see how puzzling is for myself to alter from a sort of questioning, behaviour, and so on, into yet another one. in basic terms for myself is puzzling some cases, many cases, to get rid off the anger. I even have labored at it, information that even the place there is the superb love, expectancies we would seek for in return are a large evil ... ... Who is familiar with if, on your specific tale, i would not get lower back into the previous behavior of the stated tribe in basic terms for my inner peace in the comunity, which inner peace is obviously settled upon well-known believes from our teenagers, nonetheless ?!? in basic terms for residing a non violent life ... in spite of each little thing i became into taught in basic terms we, people might desire to love, and it relatively is what i'm searching for and that i won't stay without - i don't get the different experience of life without feeling the exhilaration of the affection, an elementary love - giving & receiving, no longer complicated, no longer inquisitive, no longer shadowed, in basic terms unfastened sharing ... How could somebody replace this for the shine of ... regardless of ?!? the alternative might desire to be of a extra robust faith than the Orthodox Christian in my specific case, au opposite on your case-tale wherein we would desire to continually truthfully replace our "Volcano God" perception !!!
2016-10-01 09:55:38
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answered by ? 3
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