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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh

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Questioning the Nature of Gods in Religious Texts

Exploring the concept that the God who created the world might be evil, Jesus not being the son of that God but having a different God who is distinct from the God of the rabbis. Some interpretations suggest that the God of the Hebrew Bible is associated with the malevolent demiurge in certain Christian traditions, leading to beliefs such as Gnosticism. This perspective is exemplified in texts like the Apocryphon of John, where the creator God is seen as a product of a primordial mistake.

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