Polytheism and Omniscience-Deficient God in the Bible: "The divine reaction to the Tower of Babel was a response to a threat, not offense at human ambition or pride. Just before Yahweh stops work on the tower, he complains that now nothing will be impossible for them, nothing they can imagine doing (Gen, 11:16). The story demands a physical location of the deity in a realm vertically above the earth, and one who must engage in reconnaissance. There is not a theology of omniscience here. Nor even monotheism, as Yahweh is depicted alerting his fellows [other gods] to an unsuspected danger and using action to nip it in the bud." ~Robert M. Price, American theologian and writer, and Edwin A. Suominem, former believing but troubled Christian who wrestled with what he perceived as a grave conflict between evolution and his inherited faith, _Evolving Out of Eden - Christian Responses to Evolution_ (Tellectual Press, 2013)
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