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So, did God create the world, or did he give birth to it? There are two historically significant viewpoints on this matter.
1. Pagan (historically older) - God gave birth to the world, and the world is part of God, and all people are God's offspring (gods, in essence).
2. Jewish - God CREATED the world, and the world is, therefore, something like God's poem, rather than a part of him. And man is God's slave, who, being a god (it is unclear how, if he is a creation), violated a rather strange commandment of the Creator with the help of some snake and lost his (it is unclear how it suddenly appeared) divinity. In order to "deify" the fallen man again, God makes a covenant with him (within one nation) about loyalty to him. Then comes a very complex structure for the salvation of the fallen man. The appearance of the Messiah in order to extend this covenant to other peoples and make God's slave a god.
In the first case, man is divine by default, but in the second, his divinity is very convoluted and quite dubious.
I would also like to note here that pagan belief is more universal, simple, and logical for faith. The very word "pagan" speaks of the belief of peoples ("languages"), i.e., it implies that world religion that existed in ancient times before the dominance of the Jewish interpretation of the origin of the world.
1. Pagan (historically older) - God gave birth to the world, and the world is part of God, and all people are God's offspring (gods, in essence).
2. Jewish - God CREATED the world, and the world is, therefore, something like God's poem, rather than a part of him. And man is God's slave, who, being a god (it is unclear how, if he is a creation), violated a rather strange commandment of the Creator with the help of some snake and lost his (it is unclear how it suddenly appeared) divinity. In order to "deify" the fallen man again, God makes a covenant with him (within one nation) about loyalty to him. Then comes a very complex structure for the salvation of the fallen man. The appearance of the Messiah in order to extend this covenant to other peoples and make God's slave a god.
In the first case, man is divine by default, but in the second, his divinity is very convoluted and quite dubious.
I would also like to note here that pagan belief is more universal, simple, and logical for faith. The very word "pagan" speaks of the belief of peoples ("languages"), i.e., it implies that world religion that existed in ancient times before the dominance of the Jewish interpretation of the origin of the world.
Настоящие герои - не те, пред кем мы преклоняемся, а те, кого мы оплевываем...[/COLOR]
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"So much has gone
and little is new"
David Bowie
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"So much has gone
and little is new"
David Bowie