It's still the idea that wood and stone embodies a deity.
2007-08-17 07:51:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes. Most of the Jewish stories in the Torah were adapted from ancient Egyptian and Sumerian fables.
2007-08-17 07:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wood and stone is not the house of the lord. The temple of god is the body of the believers. If you think that either the Jewish or the Christian religion believes that wood or stone embodies God then you are misinformed.
2007-08-17 15:15:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. That's a reasonable take on it.
Let's extend the thought a bit. The building of temples, and fortifications and palaces was the high magic of those early times. The knowledge that allowed us to work in heavy materials
became our own symbol of empowerment (Masons, you see)...
Previous to this, men huddled in fear of open nature. With such buildings we became less fearful of nature as a veangeful being (God); and so the move toward more modern religion from the previous animism was in essence a statement that we were becoming closer to gods ourselves.
Culminating, two thousand years ago, in claiming a man as a direct embodiment of God.
It might be said that the worship of Jesus was the first step in the road toward the killing of God.
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yikes two thumbs in less than a minute? You religious people sure hate to think too deeply.
2007-08-17 15:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not really. Idols were worshiped as an image of a god. Christians and Jews do not worship their temples, they worship in them. The temple itself is not a representative of a god, only a place of worship.
2007-08-17 15:24:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mike W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All aboard the liberal hate train. Bound for religion. Time to arrival, very very soon. Stops along the way, short stops to progress from social concern to indignation to anger to hate.
Completely on schedule.
For those of you without a sense of humor, I'm predicting the liberal agenda will push for hatred of all religion. Just as it pushed for hatred of Bush, Carl Rove, conservatism, free market societies, capitalism, the military, and anything else that doesn't fit into the grand liberal scheme of things.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I've seen the pattern to many times.
2007-08-17 15:12:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christians but i have never heard of a Judeo-Christian.
In fact Judeo is not a word.
Univee-you have not one idea of what you are talking about.
2007-08-17 15:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the idols were many different gods. The Jews and Chirstians usse the temples and churches as a place to meet and praise the one true God.
2007-08-17 15:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by namsaev 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thought they replaced temples with churches?
But, yeah, organized religion is organized religion. No matter how much they may like to kill eachother over the details, they're basically all the same.
2007-08-17 15:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no such thing as "Judeo-Christianity".
It's a herecy to merge two religions either from Christian or Jewish point of view.
It's a herecy to talk about "Judeo-Christian" values, too.
2007-08-17 15:07:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did your Satanic pagans do the same?
2007-08-17 15:56:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋