Oddbean

i think that the fact that you have to make so many distinctions about the word God says something in some places the text means "who made the universe" aka "God the Creator" in other places it means "God the Father" who is the Father referred to by Jesus and anthropomorphic (the prior one is not anthropomorphic), this one wants the best for us and most certainly isn't in the business of choosing and weeps for all who are lost in still other places it basically means Satan, and blinding people is one of his games, if i understand the way that some little parts of the bible (especially the ones full of rules about chopping people's body parts or stoning them to death) or who calls for war, these are false Gods that are either idols or the ideals of a dictator or a dictatorial cult in still other places it means people whose knowledge is incomprehensibly greater than ours, and sometimes these ones are also called Angels but the most high ones are called Lord and these ones in Genesis are the ones blamed for snubbing the welcome gifts such as the case of Cain or other ones which you can find later in Genesis, and notably the one where Jacob "steals" the blessing of Abraham is an example of the same dynamic, the godhood is imputed by one of the individuals upon a human and is taken to be a curse and this leads to psychotic behaviour (ie, making war or murder) the more i learn about the apocrypha the more sure i am that this is the gamut of the various kinds of God that are often named with confusingly similar words it's my opinion that one of the gifts we have as created beings is the ability to make our own judgement how we wish to percieve the world and that this choice is key to what is weighed up at the final Judgement at least, that's how i read it all

"For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him." 1 Corinthians 8:5–6 (CSB) I recently read some things that are stretching my understanding of theology. "Psalm 82 explains that God rules over this assembly of other ‘elohim whom He identifies as gods. They are not eternal, all-knowing, or all-powerful like He is, but they are still called gods", Tim Chaffey, Fallen: The Sons of God and the Nephilim (Richmond, Kentucky: Risen books, 2019), p. 91. ... "As strange as it may seem to modern readers, when we put all of these passages together, we see that God gave control of one nation to each bene ’elohim of the divine council. Or put another way, he allotted gods to each of the nations, although He kept Israel for Himself. He charged these gods to rule justly, and now we know why—so that the people would seek God. But we learn from Psalm 82 that they showed partiality to the wicked (v. 2) rather than providing justice. They failed to uphold the practices God required of them, such as defending the poor and fatherless and being just toward the afflicted and needy (v. 3). Do you remember the last line of that psalm? It will make more sense now that we’ve looked at these three passages in Deuteronomy. Psalm 82:8 states, “Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations” (ESV). "At Babel, God gave the bene ’elohim authority over the nations, except for the one nation He would start with one man and his barren wife (Abram and Sarai). By the time Psalm 82 was written, the divine council members had failed miserably in their assigned tasks. They had led their own peoples into idolatry and injustice. Consequently, they deserved to be judged, and Yahweh would inherit all the nations", ibid, pp. 147-48. 🤔😯🤯

yeah, i'm pretty sure i've got a gist of what the real story is on this stuff God the Father is the one you want to be on your side God the Creator made evil also the gods - this is just an alias for the angels who are just people who primitive people thought to be omnipotent because of their science some were good, some were evil, and some messed up shit happened because of them... it was they who instituted the human sacrifice of the aztecs, for example, it was they who started the cults of the phonecians and prescribed the sacrifice of babies born of rape of slave girls you can read it over and over and over again in the bible as the catholic church selected, that the "fallen angels laid with the women and begat cursed children" and similar expressions as this everywhere and they were "giants" of course because they were F1 hybrids and the "angels" were another variety of human just as it has been recently determined that Erectus (neanderthal) also bred with humans they even have a name for the variant of human now, it's the Iberomarussians and they come from the region between spain and north africa and there is skeletons from this subspecies dating back over 40,000 years

also, "elohim" means "the bright ones" and refers specifically to their pale skin the genetic mutation of white skin, and lactose tolerance both concentrated in the iberomarussians, which might be better known as the "atlanteans" by their most famous kings Poseidon and Atlas they already had gravity control and antimatter power systems and in most cases where you read "The Watchers" in the old testament, such as Daniel, this refers to the fallen angels.

the irish had a special name for them too, the "tuatha de danaan" or "aes dana" and the norse had names for them you can find references to them all through the americas with their pale skin and red/blonde hair and even probably through asia and africa you can find references, the Dogons are one of the most famous ones who managed to keep some facts about the stars near Alpha Centauri that were not known until we discovered how to see X rays