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after Our likeness
Here is another good Collab with The HU and Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach.
I've always found this interesting, who was God talking too? His wife? Another God/dess?.
It goes on to say "So God created man in His own image;" I would say that God was speaking to Himself.
To use the collective or royal "our" in that capacity is strange.
I'd never create something and say, look what we've done. Or look at how our piece is coming together.
Unless, there was another deity/person there.
I sense coverups of the Polytheistic roots of Christianity.
Which seems accurate given YHWH was a War-God from the Canaanite pantheon.
Another person who was also YHWH is what the Bible goes on to tell us.
I would say that YHWH entered the Canaanite pantheon through the Israelites who came to Canaan and started dabbling in Canaanite gods and so some god mix and matching happened.
According to the article I posted based on biblical archaeology, posits it was the opposite. YHWH was a metallurgy god of the Canaanites, who became the sole protector eventually of the Israelites.
Edit: but yes, God/dess mix and matching was pretty common then. Also, leading credence to my Polytheistic bent. Many Gods, under many guises
I would say that much of Biblical Archaeology these days is based on the philosophy of science in which the miraculous is presumed wrong and the truth of any gods is presumed wrong and so the Bible is presumed wrong and the God of Israel, YHWH, did not come to the Israelites as Genesis and Exodus tell us, but came from other cultures.
I think there is a biblical archeologist on staff as a mod here (and he's a believer), that would find this a silly rebuttal.
Most biblical archeologists aren't against the Bible but in full support of it.
****... As an archaeologist (1 semester from grad) myself, I think it's silly rebuttal myself. I don't doubt some biblical miracles or even some accuracy. But I do doubt it's supposed "innerrancy", nothing is without fault and problems.