El is the god of gods, Yahweh is (I'd argue) his subordinate for much of the OT, and there are other gods spread throughout the earth who receive worship and are truly there. How is any of this remotely monotheistic in the modern sense? Not sure why Christ is brought uphttps://twitter.com/sabbathisback/status/1059138763434180608 …
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I'd agree to disagree with you immensely, would Zeus being the "King of the Gods, God of Gods" infer that Hellenics were just monotheists? El being "God of Gods" just puts him at the top of the Council which is typical ANE (and paganism altogheter) cosmology. Top dog.
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Hell, Krishna makes more monotheistic statements in the Bhagavad Gita and the readers of that text don't draw these conclusions. I see no reason to assume El being "top dog" denies the ontological statue of Yahweh, Baal, Asherah, or any of the other gods mentioned in the OT
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The Bhagavad Gita is explicitly monotheistic, if it can be called "theistic" at all. Affirming the Unity of God does not mean denying the Multiplicity of Divinity
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I'm still reading through the Gita so I can't say too much about this. I'll reserve my judgement, you may be right. It's a great text so far, btw.
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Surely, the Hindu tradition is very rich and respectable
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