11. Is Yahweh the One True God?

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Published 2024-04-17
Does the God of the Bible exist? Are El and Yahweh different names for the same God, or different gods? Did God have a wife?

Chapters:
00:00-01:12 - The names of God
01:13-01:57 - El
01:58-03:56 - The patriarchs worshipped El and his wife, Asherah
03:57-05:05 - Yahweh and El interact
05:06-06:02 - Was Yahweh like Zeus?
06:03-06:24 - Yahweh replaces El
06:25-07:45 - Israelites worshipped Yahweh and Asherah
07:46-09:00 - Asherah was a goddess
09:01-13:21 - From polytheism to monotheism
13:22-15:44 - Combining traditions, conflicting accounts
15:45-18:38 - A modern analogy

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All Comments (14)
  • Gods evolve according to the needs of society. If God is not useful, a new one will be created.
  • @brett7794
    Great stuff! Can i add to it!? Yhwh turned into a storm/war god but originally was a Mennonite volcanic deity basically they worshiped a volcano 🌋 just go back and read the descriptions whenever Yahweh speaks and you'll see lol
  • @redteck
    Thanks for this video. I grew up in the church, Baptist on my Dad's side, Pentecostal on my Mom's, and thoroughly embraced it all in my twenties. I was in and out of several CCM bands over those years, until I started having some doubts about time I turned thirty, and stopped going to church entirely. Even after all that, this video hit me like a brick, particularly the section about Deuteronomy 32:8. Even with the names hidden, it still portrays Yahweh as a lesser god. Huge, indeed! Thanks, again! I watched all the videos and gave them the thumbs-up.
  • @jmd1743
    The Old Testament had no problem with saying that there are other gods when Mosses had to show the superiority of his god over the gods the Egyptians worshiped. It's just that in later chapters it had revisionism to say that there are no other gods. If those gods existed to be challenged then they likely continue to exist in some form, and if the Egyptian's gods exist then other gods must exist as well.
  • @MaK-13-
    "Is Yahweh the One True God?" no.
  • Do you believe in any Lord of the Universe? If so. How many do you believe in?
  • @truthgiver8286
    Yahweh was the thunder god the Hebrews adopted he was no more real than any of the other gods they could have chosen.
  • Who knows? The Israelites came from Ur in southern Iraq so that's the original home of the Jews but settled in Palestine after being slaves in Egypt.
  • 2 Kings 6;17 it doesn't say Yaweh travels in chariot but the host of angels, you need to familiarize the Bible before making these stuff to avoid wrong conclusions😅
  • @haddow777
    This is dumb. It acts as it the bible doesn't actually state many of these things as true. God wasn't exclusive to Israel. He entered into an exclusive relationship to them and they were to be exclusive to him. After entering the covenant with them, they were to be his special people. Still, there was a lot of time before the Israelites entered into the covenant with him. He formed relationships with many people. Job wasn't a part of Israel. Abraham had another son who God protected and helped in many ways, but kept separate from Israel. Before entering into their land, the encountered a prophet of God from another land who used what he knew about God against the nation of Israel. The bible also speaks of other prophets in other lands warning them about various things. Also, making a pillar of stones wasn't about idolatry, not back then. There were certain things people did to show they entered into a covenant with another. Sometimes a place or a person's name would be changed to signify the covenant. Back then, it was common to make a pillar of stones as a sign of a covenant. It wasn't built to be worshipped, but to act as a visible sign of the promises made. So many times bible debunkers miss nuance and call it contradiction. God speaks many times about the heart condition of people. How some are haughty and unrepentant while others are contrite and repentant, changing their ways. So in other areas where two different people or groups do the same thing with God acting in different ways, they call it a contradiction ignoring that God would be judging these people/groups not just by action, but heart condition.