YOU SAY: Please note: This is not an absolute claim. It’s a hypothesis based on analysis of the preponderance of archeological and textual evidence at this time.
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I SAY: There is no preponderance. The preponderance is with pure Monotheism within Abrahamic faiths.
I have no idea why you keep citing AI either.
YOU SAY: Yes, Yahwism evolved into Judaism, and is the basis for the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
I SAY: I’m unsure of the correct word to use for this tactic but l’d call it Circular Reasoning / Begging the Question.
You’ve created “Yahwism”. Therefore Yahwism exists. You then discover … wait for it … evidence of Yahwism!
This is like my saying that Sauron was originally a Hobbit, as evidenced by various fanfictions clearly showing that Odo Bracegirdle, or in some instances Farmer Proudfoot, was corrupted by the Ring and became a Darklord.
The Ring caused Hobbits to be “Sauromorphed”. So, there is a preponderance of accounts whereby Hobbits have Sauromorphed. Sauromorphing likely happened around 1985-1990, but may have occurred as late as 2016, because Christopher Tolkien was in Oxford that year to receive the Bodley Medal, and he would have crossed paths with Professor Mary Beard at the same awards. She was a professor in Classics and thus there would have been a transfer of the concept of ZOOMORPHING in Greek Myth, to the Middle Earth mythos.
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YOU SAY:
Yahwism
The worship of Yahweh, a deity originally worshipped by the Midianites in the Arabian Desert. The Israelites and Judahites adopted Yahweh as their national god.
Second Temple Judaism
The Yahwist religion coalesced into Second Temple Judaism after the Babylonian captivity in the 4th century BCE.
Monotheism
During the Second Temple Period, Judaism was revised to establish monotheism, the belief in one deity.
I SAY: I’ve already covered this. There is a push-pull between Materialistic vs. Spiritual zeitgeists. At the time of Prophets, Monotheism was restored. After the prophets left, the materialists would resurge and set up idol-intercessors, with attendant priesthoods, sacred groves, donation pots, etc. etc.
I’ve also explained that polytheism has never generated any Prophets. That’s because the ORIGINAL MESSAGE always came from Montheistic Prophets, who are the ONLY Prophets except perhaps in the case of Zoroaster, who let’s face it, is lost in the mists of time, like 99.9% of the Yahwist hypothesis’s elements.
YOU SAY:
Islam
Islam developed the deity Allah (“the God”) beginning in the 7th century CE.
The Torah explains the origins of the Jewish faith, and states that God first revealed himself to Abraham, who is known as the founder of Judaism.
I SAY:
OH MY GOSH. Have you any idea how hard it was for the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him?
Think of the ENTIRE Alien / Aliens franchise. Think of the turmoil Ripley endured from start to finish. Basically that’s the average Prophet’s life, especially Muhammad’s, Jesus’s and Moses’s. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. Living in constant fear of being murdered by the polytheists, and being confronted with terrifying beings, both Good and Evil (the Prophet Muhammad tried to kill himself when he first saw Gabriel in his terrifying glory, he could’t accept that he was now a prophet).
Also you completely ignore what the Qur’an ITSELF SAYS about polytheism, and thus you bypass what it offers by way of PRIMARY EVIDENCE. This is Argument from Omission, your go-to Fallacy.
The Qur’an explains that the Polytheists will always answer that Allah created everything.
The Qur’an explains that the Polytheists ascribed wives to Allah (l think by mudering female babies, burying them alive, and dedicating them to become wives of the Creator?). The Qur’an asks them if people’s daughters are for Allah and their sons are for themselves?
The Qur’an explains that nevertheless, the Polytheists scoff at the idea of resurrection and an afterlife.
The Qur’an teaches that Polytheists never produced a prophet
The Qur’an teaches that evil-doers would just use divine revelation as a pattern for evil, by doing its opposite, because they themselves had no clue.
This shows that as far as Montheism is concerned, Monotheism came first. Idol-intercessors then came about after the prophets died (often murdered by their people). This was a state of Deism, such that people still believed in God, but for them God was just a really powerful entity WITHIN THE UNIVERSE. No longer supreme.
The same applied to Israel / Canaan. You are just picking out examples when Monotheism degenerated into Henotheism etc. and saying the degenerate form was the ORIGINAL. This is baseless in the face of what l keep telling you, above. About how Monotheism denegerates into Polytheism / Deism, which any evidence of Henotheism you cite, would be supportive of. That’s right, your evidence supports the Montheistic theory.
You go as far as making it sound so easy, you now have the Prophet Muhammad arbitrarily deciding to give polytheism a lil tweak and turn it into monotheism - yay!
You clearly have NO IDEA (best case) or are WILFULLY IGNORANT of how hard it was for Muhammad to instate Monotheism in a city full of proud wealthy Polytheists, their power centre in all of Arabia Felix. It could only have happened if it was genuine, nobody would be so foolish as to invent Monotheism in Pagantown.
YOU THEN SAY:
One hypothesis with evidentiary support is the Midianite hypothesis.
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The Midianite hypothesis, also known as the Kenite-Midianite hypothesis, is a theory about the origins of the deity Yahweh. It suggests that Yahweh originated with the Kenites, a nomadic tribe in the area of Midian.
Evidence for the hypothesis:
Moses’ marriage: Moses married the daughter of a Midianite priest
Old poetry: Yahweh fought wars from the southern wilderness
Egyptian texts: The Egyptians called the region “the land of the Shasu, YHW”
Archaeology: The Qurayyah oasis in northwest Saudi Arabia may have been the capital of the Midianite kingdom
Impact of the hypothesis
The hypothesis affects how people understand the story of Genesis. For example, the hypothesis suggests that the story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden is part of Midianite mythology.
Reception
The hypothesis is not universally accepted, but it has some supporting evidence from archaeology and etymology.
Related reading
“The Archaeology of Cult of Ancient Israel’s Southern Neighbors and the Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis” by Juan Manuel Tebes in Entangled Religions
I SAY: You clearly don’t even understand what YHWH / YHW means. I am not going to tell you because l want you to be confronted with the fact that you are a stranger to this lore.
There was probably no “Land of Shasu, YHW”. There was probably no old poetry of Yahweh fighting wars in the wilderness, whatever that could possibly entail.
The only possibly true thing there was that the northwest of Saudi Arabia likely was the centre of the Midianite Kingdom, a place called Ar-Rass. But YOU have no idea why l would say that, because YOU are a stranger to their world, as evidenced by your rambling skeletal threadbare baseless hypotheses.
I ALSO SAY: *Sauromorphing is further evidenced in the life of DOSTOEVSKY, who was sent to a Siberian prison camp, which was much like a small Hobbit settlement. The harsh conditions there focused him, and his talent for writing was like Sauron’s ring, and thus he was transformed, he was SAUROMORPHED. *
No, it’s utterly baseless.
You’re wasting your time. There’s as much reason to believe Sauromorphing as your Yahwist theory.
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