You've hit on quite an important point, and I've had exactly the same thought. As regards Yahweh of the Bible, what is virtually universally missed is that he radically alters his position just during the course of that document.
Yes, we start with all the "burnt offerings" and all the rest of this, but even the Ten Commandments says nothing of worship except "Remember the sabbath day". (Later, Jesus reminds us that the Sabbath was created for Man, not Man for the Sabbath.) Interestingly, there is a commandment to honor your father and mother but--again--Yahweh does not even include himself there.
By the time of Isaiah, we get this very strong plain and statement regarding worship from Yahweh (Isaiah 1:11-14):
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Right in the Scripture, from the man himself, yet completely ignored! Finally, by the end of the Bible (although similar things are mentioned several times before), we find in Revelation 21:2-3:
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
"A bride adorned for her husband"? "Dwell with them"? "Their God"? It all gives quite a different picture than that of some sort of blind worship.
Again, all ignored, which has greatly informed my view of "Biblical scholarship".
When carefully examined and properly understood, this is key to understanding the original history and relationship between humans and the Anunnaki. It all revolves around a single Hebrew word: avod. You can examine it more closely later, but just take a look at the title of this article:
Does the disjunction scream out at you? If not,let me break it down.
In the "Abrahamic" religions, there is a strong division between work and worship. W.H. Auden mentions, "My working week and my Sunday rest," and every Christian knows what that means. The Biblical Jews wanted to put two of Jesus' followers to death for gathering firewood on the Sabbath. Many modern Jews won't press an elevator button on Sabbat.
But in "avodah", we see work and worship fused together. It's unexpected, contradictory, extraordinarily baffling! How can this be?
If we go back to the true origin, though, it makes perfect sense. We learn that humans were created to do work the Anunnaki did not want to do, beginning with mining gold but of course expanding to everything else. In other words, we were created to work for the Anunnaki, which becomes "to serve the gods", which becomes "worship of god(s)". But you see how the original meaning has been lost and disguised.
As far as where the "day of rest" concept came in, I don't personally know but I would think even beasts of burden are not worked every single day. I suspect that one day out of seven was established by the Anunnaki as appropriate rest for their bests of burden. Indeed, this may have been the very purpose of originating the concept of "week". Why would primitive farmers and hunters have the least care to create such a period of time?
Well, in a larger sense, I'm only involved in trying to account for evidence we have at hand. I'm willing to speculate anything, but only so far as it provides a potentially falsifiable, well-defined hypothesis, or would at least serve as a framework for developing one.
There's a problem with introducing an all -powerful creator being into that. It's not that there isn't one because there are certain indications that there is, but as far as analysis you just handed yourself the ultimate wild card. Every single fact and circumstance can simply be explained as, "God willed it to be thus." Actual analysis becomes completely arbitrary, if not flushed right down the toilet. Just think of how liberals have a secret invisible asterisk at the end of every one of their statements. Do you want to be like them?
As far as the nature of consciousness, the biggest tip of the hand was the show "Westworld". We clearly see it as a technology that can be manipulated externally. If we look judiciously around at the current world and through history, we can find evidence of exactly that happening.
One might also analogize it to eyesight. We start with an in-built, "natural" facility. Note that different people have different characteristics, and some are even color-blind. We can augment it with everything from eyeglasses to telescopes and microscopes. With lasik and RK, we can also alter it in ways undetectable to all but specialists, who would need to examine the person carefully.
To sum up, instead of trying to "get somewhere", I simply try to make sense of what is already before me. When and as that is done and done well, where to look next is usually not much of an issue.
You've hit on quite an important point, and I've had exactly the same thought. As regards Yahweh of the Bible, what is virtually universally missed is that he radically alters his position just during the course of that document.
Yes, we start with all the "burnt offerings" and all the rest of this, but even the Ten Commandments says nothing of worship except "Remember the sabbath day". (Later, Jesus reminds us that the Sabbath was created for Man, not Man for the Sabbath.) Interestingly, there is a commandment to honor your father and mother but--again--Yahweh does not even include himself there.
By the time of Isaiah, we get this very strong plain and statement regarding worship from Yahweh (Isaiah 1:11-14):
Right in the Scripture, from the man himself, yet completely ignored! Finally, by the end of the Bible (although similar things are mentioned several times before), we find in Revelation 21:2-3:
"A bride adorned for her husband"? "Dwell with them"? "Their God"? It all gives quite a different picture than that of some sort of blind worship.
Again, all ignored, which has greatly informed my view of "Biblical scholarship".
When carefully examined and properly understood, this is key to understanding the original history and relationship between humans and the Anunnaki. It all revolves around a single Hebrew word: avod. You can examine it more closely later, but just take a look at the title of this article:
‘Avodah’: What It Means to Live a Seamless Life of Work, Worship, and Service
Does the disjunction scream out at you? If not,let me break it down.
In the "Abrahamic" religions, there is a strong division between work and worship. W.H. Auden mentions, "My working week and my Sunday rest," and every Christian knows what that means. The Biblical Jews wanted to put two of Jesus' followers to death for gathering firewood on the Sabbath. Many modern Jews won't press an elevator button on Sabbat.
But in "avodah", we see work and worship fused together. It's unexpected, contradictory, extraordinarily baffling! How can this be?
If we go back to the true origin, though, it makes perfect sense. We learn that humans were created to do work the Anunnaki did not want to do, beginning with mining gold but of course expanding to everything else. In other words, we were created to work for the Anunnaki, which becomes "to serve the gods", which becomes "worship of god(s)". But you see how the original meaning has been lost and disguised.
As far as where the "day of rest" concept came in, I don't personally know but I would think even beasts of burden are not worked every single day. I suspect that one day out of seven was established by the Anunnaki as appropriate rest for their bests of burden. Indeed, this may have been the very purpose of originating the concept of "week". Why would primitive farmers and hunters have the least care to create such a period of time?
Well, in a larger sense, I'm only involved in trying to account for evidence we have at hand. I'm willing to speculate anything, but only so far as it provides a potentially falsifiable, well-defined hypothesis, or would at least serve as a framework for developing one.
There's a problem with introducing an all -powerful creator being into that. It's not that there isn't one because there are certain indications that there is, but as far as analysis you just handed yourself the ultimate wild card. Every single fact and circumstance can simply be explained as, "God willed it to be thus." Actual analysis becomes completely arbitrary, if not flushed right down the toilet. Just think of how liberals have a secret invisible asterisk at the end of every one of their statements. Do you want to be like them?
As far as the nature of consciousness, the biggest tip of the hand was the show "Westworld". We clearly see it as a technology that can be manipulated externally. If we look judiciously around at the current world and through history, we can find evidence of exactly that happening.
One might also analogize it to eyesight. We start with an in-built, "natural" facility. Note that different people have different characteristics, and some are even color-blind. We can augment it with everything from eyeglasses to telescopes and microscopes. With lasik and RK, we can also alter it in ways undetectable to all but specialists, who would need to examine the person carefully.
To sum up, instead of trying to "get somewhere", I simply try to make sense of what is already before me. When and as that is done and done well, where to look next is usually not much of an issue.