Babylon and the Bible
The Ancients
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The Rise and Fall of God in Babylon
When Jerusalem is attacked by Nebuchadnezzar and the Templars destroyed he brings those elite figures back to Babylon. It's only in this period do we get the reworking of the conception of God himself okay. Now you see the practice was that this story of the anthropomorphic God walking in the garden and creating Adam and Eve is a very ancient early bronze age myth. The Jews couldn't just delete that from their story it's too important but now in Babylon they needed to add another dimension to that story because their God was not visible to them any longer. So I think the priests come up with this incredible theological way out to say that God is omnipresent and omnip
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