Though we approach Jewish belief and ethno-religious practice in this way:
שמע ישראל ניטול את חלקינו בתיקון עולם!*
לא יהיה לי אלהים על פני.
זכור את יום השבת לקדשו.
It is important for all Jews to discuss the sacred national myths of our Jewish people. This means exploring “G-d,” without worshipping this human imagined “G-d” concept. How do we explore “G-d”? Through our inherited ANE literature, of course. To understand the myths, we need to understand the role of “G-d” in these Jewish myths, and why they are important to maintaining Jewish nationality within the Levant. So, like this Jewish New Year has begun, like the yearly Torah reading now begins, let’s begin our exploration into the purpose of “G-d” concepts within Judaism….
*- SHJ, Society for Humanistic Judaism, version of Sh’ma!
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Let’s talk about the way of divine land justice. The purpose of ancient Near Eastern creation myths in a single concise paragraph:
שמואל א כו:יט …כִּי גֵרְשׁוּנִי הַיּוֹם מֵהִסְתַּפֵּחַ בְּנַחֲלַת יְ־הוָה לֵאמֹר לֵךְ עֲבֹד אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים.
“For they have driven me out today, so that I cannot have a share in YHWH’s possession, but am told, “Go and worship other gods.” (1 Sam 26:19)” – David speaking to Saul, when he is forced to run away to Philistia.
This is what makes the difference between theology-based conquest religions, Christianity and Islam, and all the rest of the world’s religions, the ethno-religions: Judaism, Zoroastrianism (the ethnic religion of pre-Islamic Iran), the ancient Egyptian religions, the ancient Babylonian religion, etc., etc.
All ethno-religions possess chaos-conquest stories of the people’s deity, creation of the land (earth), battles with horrific creatures, assignment of portions of the land to lower gods, while keeping the people’s land to their creator deity (the high god), thus justifying why the people have the divine right to living on the land their creator deity possesses.
This is why both Christianity and Islam inherently hate Judaism, and seek to speak to the world for Jews about Jews. Because, neither Christianity nor Islam has a divine right to the ancient land of the Jews, according to the ancient established myths of YHWH Elohim’s land and people. And, without the Jews, they have no ancestral land and nation myths to validate their assumed right to (religious) people-hood existence.
The Christian’s homeland is European Rome, and Christians are the vassal property of the demigod Christ (which is the semi-divine Aeneas, son of the maybe-a-virgin goddess Venus). The Muslim’s homeland is Saudi Arabia, and Muslims are the vassal property of Allah (which is the god Hubal and the goddesses al-Lāt, Al-‘Uzzá and Manāt in Kaaba in Mecca).
Just like Babylon and its people were the property of the god Marduk, Egypt and its people were the property of the gods Amun and Ptah, and just like India and its people are the property of the god Brahma. Israel-Judea and its people is the property of high god YHWH Elohim, who assigned the gods to the another nations (to be fair, though, every ancient nation claims that their deity is the creator high god, and their land is the chosen land of this god).
The hate by Christianity and Islam for the maintained Jewish possession over the land of Jewish Israel is unwarranted and unfair, for both Christians and Muslims have a land and high god already – and *do not* need ours, also!
“The evidence from the Bible [Jewish ANE literature] and the cognate ancient Near Eastern literature [Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, etc.] demonstrates that there is a strong connection between accounts of world creation and the designation or elevation of a specific land as the special home of the creator deity and/or that deity’s people. Although R. Levi could not have been familiar with the ancient Near Eastern sources discussed here, he seems to have intuited the connection between establishing a deity as the creator God and supporting the claims of that deity’s people to the importance of their homeland, and their divine right to it.”
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-torah-begins-with-creation-to-defend-israels-right-to-the-land
The Torah Begins with Creation to Defend Israel’s Right to the Land?
The theme of a divine creator’s right to assign territory to his people is pervasive in the Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. Perhaps the rabbinic midrash which suggests that the Torah begins with creation to defend Israel against the accusation they stole the land of Canaan were onto something.
Prof. Jason Radine
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Let’s talk about differing conceptions of the divine creator. You do understand that Torah is imaginative national fiction, right? That Torah (Genesis to Joshua) is meant to be read as one continuous story, yes? So, why do people say that it has two creation myths that are meant to be the same myth of creation repeated twice and, then, also say it actually happened – like in for actually real?
The “beginning of Genesis contains two different creation stories” that are meant to be read as *two different stories, in parallel with each other*, describing *two different events of creating*. Unlike the later Greek time period Gospels, the Torah was meant to be read as one continuously revealing story – from Genesis to Joshua.
In Genesis, the first creation story is about the organizing of a flat earth out of the already existent matter (the first creation act is “light” imbued within the darkness, light without a source for its existence – yes, go read the story again, correctly this time!) and the general creation of humans, males and females together, upon the land. After YHWH’s first Shabbat, the creation process begins anew, this time the planting of a garden and the forming of the Levant humans that this sacred Torah is all about, the Levantine Arabs and Jews – specifically, the Jews. After the children of YHWH (lower gods) mate with the humans and humans displease YHWH god, the third creation takes place through the flood – but this is a partial recreation, not a creation from scratch, like the first two.
https://www.thetorah.com/article/differing-conceptions-of-the-divine-creator
Differing Conceptions of the Divine Creator
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Let’s talk about demigods and the birth of Noah. Hmmm, the high god YHWH Elohim creates a flat earth out of the already existing chaotic watery-world abyss, and then creates humans, male and female together, to populate this land. Then, after taking a Shabbat, high god YHWH Elohim creates the Levantine people upon his portion of the land, a desert with a garden that he planted in it.
After the two human populations begin to mingle, through Cain’s prosperous banishment, the lower gods descend upon flat earth to impregnate beautiful women, thus giving rise to the mortal demigods of oral lore. Because, both the humans and the demigods prove to be so independent in their decision making and so given to their inherent lusts, high god YHWH Elohim decides to re-create all over again, mostly from scratch. He keeps Noah and his family and a little bit of the best of the other creatures, then floods the land.
After the flooding and re-population of the land through Noah’s family (must have been a fairly large tribe, despite the incestual behavior of Lot’s daughters, the high god YHWH Elohim divides the flat earth into portions, each portion belonging to a lower god, and the Levant belonging to him. Again, the humans are punished – with limitations this time, rather than extermination – for being too much like the gods themselves.
But, still yet, even YHWH Elohim occasionally feels the need to impregnate various legendary women with god seed, resulting in the births of Issac, Samson, Jesus, etc. And, potentially, other mortal demigods, as well?
https://www.thetorah.com/article/demigods-and-the-birth-of-noah
Demigods and the Birth of Noah
The Sons of Elohim sleeping with women and producing demigods (Gen 6:1-4) is sandwiched between the birth of Noah and the flood. This juxtaposition of passages prompted 1 Enoch and Genesis Apocryphon to question whether Lamech was Noah’s father or whether Noah was a demigod.
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Let’s talk about the three laws of the modern Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Israel is the only example I know of where the indigenous of the land has regained possession of some of the land and has been able to re-establish full sovereignty upon this portion. ….
The land of indigenous Kurdish people are still occupied by Muslim nations, the land of indigenous First Peoples and Hawaiians are still occupied by a Christian nation. …
In this article below is the self-evident history upon the ground, and why conquesting religions need to stop trying to own lands that belong to the indigenous of the lands.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/3-laws-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
3 laws of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
1 – When the Palestinians demand everything, they get nothing.
2 – The more the Palestinians refuse [during negotiations], the less they are offered.
3 – While the Palestinians delay accepting peace, Israel becomes stronger and the Palestinians become weaker.
It is time for Muslims across the Middle East to accept that Jews have always been the indigenous of Israel-Judea lands, whether we have sovereignty over our lands or not.
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