Your faith is in the atheism which says that "religion is syncretic."
Seriously? I honestly thought you were smarter than this.
FIRST, all other religions have definitely been demonstrated to be syncretic, hence EVIDENCE.
The OT is incredibly syncretic. It's taught at Yale Divinity, Genesis is a reworking of Mesopotamian stories?
The wisdom books are borrowed -
" Borrowing ideas from Greek philosophers who held that reason bound the universe together, the Wisdom tradition taught that God's Wisdom, Word and Spirit were the ground of cosmic unity.
[32] Christianity in turn adopted these ideas and applied them to Jesus: "
". The third unit, Proverbs 22:17–24:22, is headed "bend your ear and hear the words of the wise". A large part of this section is a recasting of a second-millennium BCE Egyptian work, the
Instruction of Amenemope, and may have reached the Hebrew author(s) through an Aramaic translation.
We can go DEEP into the scholars who have entire monographs on Greek and Persian influence, like David Litwa, Richard Miller, James Tabor, J.Z. Smith,
the NT is Persian and Greek:
During the period of the
Second Temple (c.515 BC – 70 AD), the Hebrew people lived under the rule of first the Persian
Achaemenid Empire, then the
Greek kingdoms of the
Diadochi, and finally the
Roman Empire.
[47] Their culture was profoundly influenced by those of the peoples who ruled them.
[47] Consequently, their views on existence after death were profoundly shaped by the ideas of the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans.
[48][49] The idea of the
immortality of the soul is derived from Greek philosophy[49] and the idea of the
resurrection of the dead is derived from Persian cosmology.
[49] By the early first century AD, these two seemingly incompatible ideas were often conflated by Hebrew thinkers.
[49] The Hebrews also
inherited from the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans the idea that the
human soul originates in the divine realm and seeks to return there.
[47] The idea that a
human soul belongs in Heaven and that Earth is merely a temporary abode in which the
soul is tested to prove its worthiness became increasingly popular during t
he Hellenistic period (323 – 31 BC).
[40] Gradually, some Hebrews began to adopt the idea of Heaven as the eternal home of the righteous dead.
[40]
Again, this is EVIDENCE.
Then, the 1st Gospel, Mark which closely follows Romulus, OT stories, Paul and other stories, we can also go deep into.
As well as Hellenism from works by Paken and others who decribe the early Greek influenced mystery religions as exactly what is happening in the NT.
EVIDENCE, that syncretic borrowings are happening. No faith. I didn't make it up and hope that it's true. And yes it's absurd that you would even think so. I am truly baffled, is this some type of protective denial mechanism? Didn't you give ma a hard time for posting scholarship? For the exact reason people wouldn't flake out and call it faith, I provide evidence. And yet.........
The Egyptians know of a group of people in Canaan where they should be according to the Bible and politically as they should be according to the Bible. "a loosely affilitated tribal confederation".
Merneptah witnesses to the truth of the history in the Bible.
Archaeology witnesses to the falsehood of the early scriptures.
"
William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical archeology, perhaps 150 years ago, scholars, mostly western scholars, have attempted to use archeological data to prove the Bible. And for a long time it was thought to work. [William Foxwell] Albright, the great father of our discipline, often spoke of the "archeological revolution." Well, the revolution has come but not in the way that Albright thought. The truth of the matter today is that archeology raises more questions about the historicity of the Hebrew Bible and even the New Testament than it provides answers, and that's very disturbing to some people."
In this article, archaeologist and biblical scholar William Dever discusses how archeology can offer vivid insights into the biblical world.
www.pbs.org
and no, Merneptah does not prove anything about cooming from Egypt. It actually backs up archaeology which shows through archaeology, DNA and more that they came from Canaan cities and there was no conquest.
Biblically the Hebrews left Egypt about 1450 BC and were not then known as Israelites. There is an inscription on the Egyptian Soleb Temple about a nomadic group of people whose God was Yahweh around 1st quarter of the 14th century BC (around 1375 BC) This imo was Israel in Canaan as a nomadic people, defeating Canaanite cities and beginning to settle there. There was no land called the land of Yahweh, so the name Yahweh was the God of those people.
And evidence for the much-debated era of the Exodus
armstronginstitute.org
The consensus in scholarship,
Canaanites Were Israelites & There Was No Exodus
Prof. Joel Baden
1:20 DNA shows close relationship between Israelites and Canaanites. Israelites ARE Canaanites who moved to a different place.
6:10 Consensus. Biblical story of Exodus and people coming from Egypt and taking over through battle is not true. With slight variations here and there basically everyone will tell you they gradually came from the coastlands into the highlands. Canaanites moved away to the highlands and slowly became a unified nation after first splitting into tribes.
No Israelites until after 1000 BCE.
18:18 Isaiah 1 is 8th century. Ch 40 is suddenly different. Cyrus shows up, enter end times, Persian influence. Messianic concepts.
The only reason one would not see this is if committed to the idea that it’s not written in separate parts.
YHWH in Genesis is El the Highest God. That is who YHWH is, the Most High God, but nobody at that time used the name YHWH.
El was the father of the Gods in that region an an early variant of Deuteronomy shows El gave Yahweh Israel as his inheritance.
"Scholars have long suspected that El, not Yahweh, was the original God of the people known in the Bible as "Israel"; his name not only occurs in the traditions of the patriarchs, but is embedded in the name if Israel itself. (yisra-el), and is explicitly revealed in the divine name of a temple Jacob is said to have built at the ancient city of Shechem, in what is now West Bank. "He erected a temple there and called it "El, god of Israel. Yahweh would eventually come to ursurp his father El by supplanting him as the head of the pantheon. But quite how this happened remains frustratingly unclear..........the need for kings to exhibit themselves as warriors endorsed by fearsome fighters, Yahweh, a storm god, was naturally a god of warfare, equipped with weapons of thunder, lightning and rain clouds, and it was Yahweh's personal patronage the kings of Israel and Judah claimed."
Professor Stavrakopoulou
Yes the Israelites and Canaanites did their syncretic thing and made YHWH into a Canaanite God who probably had Ashera as consort. That sort of thing is in the pages of the Bible narrative and those whose faith is that there is no God turn it around and say that the Bible history is false and it did not happen that way, but that the Bible history was made up later, just as you have done.
No that is what the vast amount of evidence shows.
Yahweh was a warrior in other cultures, part of a pantheon. His name was Yaho, Yahu or Yah in early Hebrew.
Before this we have Ugaritic pantheon, typical of Levantine religions, where we first see Yahweh.
The Bible history is false, it's a later interpretation and doesn't represent all of the evidence.
Again, different scholar, similar info
The Real Origins of Ancient Israel
Lester L. Grabbe
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, England
10:21 Abraham is probably a fictional character, a foundation myth/character developed for theological and philosophical reasons. The Biblical text was not written down until 7/8th century from oral stories. Abraham was an envisioned character who did things but likely is a literary invention. Anachronisms in his story show they were developed later on.
His story was likely developed with the oral history. Hebrew language was developed around the 7/8th century.
21:34 we have enough historical information to know there was no Exodus and early Israel was in Canaan.
33:43 Genesis uses what we would call plagiarism from Mesopotamian literature.
Plagiarism as an idea was not around back then.
38:30 When it comes to the flood story Noah is “almost exact” to the older flood stories.
Hebrew story is probably a borrowing from Mesopotamia. The creation story was influenced by Mesopotamian creation myths.
47:35 Yahweh possibly borrowed from Egyptian text (Yahweh from south)
51:20 original text appears Yahweh was given Israel from the head deity El. Appears authors tried to remove these early beliefs from scripture but missed some references.
Yahweh is also a “son” of El.
1:01:01. Israel was Canaanite, they were people who lived in Canaan but made Canaanites the villain in their stories.
There are other translations. 
