In Exodus 24, 9-11 there is an encounter with God which highlights the following:
"Those who go to meet him are seeing the God (Exodus 33.20 Although it is said that God can not be seen).
- There is an allusion to the architecture of the palace of the God, which disappear with the idea of \u200b\u200bGod unique heritage and untraceable.
- There is a reference to the feet of God anthropomorphic view, normal before the monotheistic revolution.
-assemble there Those who eat and drink in the presence of that divinity, this reason is also very old.
These four characteristics will disappear completely after the change to monotheism.
In Deuteronomy 4, 12 is a new encounter with God which highlights the following:
-Moses goes up only to find with him.
"No food.
"No reference to the body of God.
"It emphasizes that God is not seen, only heard it (one voice coming out of the fire.) It is an invisible, is not represented.
What appears now is a divine voice that comes out the fire, a voice is invisible, unknown. It's something that can not be accessed. Mount Sinai is an extra, mainly of Nehemiah (Ezra's partner). In Exodus 15 there is a triumphant song about the exodus from Egypt and there is no mention of what happened in Mount Sinai or the rules obtained by Moses.
Nehemiah 9 In speaking of the monotheistic God gave Moses laws, so it makes you look, you want to see and get that new idea of \u200b\u200bone God and Moses was as Whether this new vision was like that since forever.
invisible God is a way of showing that is beyond the world in which humans live. One way to emphasize a radical ontological heterogeneity. Duality disappears too masculine / feminine is not said as her voice sounds. It also creates an image of the other religions (where the gods can be represented in a visible) which are devalued, their gods are false, only God who can not see is real. Moreover, these pagan gods be harmful, and therefore contain evil will be eliminated, and persecute them. (Greeks and Romans were free to worship change.)
must make war on other religions that hold these evil and harm and have no ethical guidance. The satire of these cults can be seen in Psalm 105 and in the book of Wisdom of Solomon (text in the second century BC, one of the last built in the Old Testament), it can find consequences of worshiping false gods, a message repeated today. Monotheistic vision created this vision of the other as false and harmful, but remember that these "false" religions are common at this time. The Hebrew God (monotheism) gives detailed laws on how they should behave at all times (even in the smallest detail), which does not happen in Greece, Rome and Egypt, where standards of conduct regulating the leaders.
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