Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00295)

stevestubbs wrote:
> One last irrelevant comment. We cannot prove or disprove the 
> existence of God but that is partly because the nature of the 
> question keeps getting redefined. The ancient Jews believed in (but 
> did not worship) a sort of goblin called the "el." There is a story 
> in Genesis about someone "wrestling with God" which is believed by 
> scholars to go back to the "el" period. But I am not aware of anyone 
> in the mainstream today who believes in els.
>
> Later they worshipped a volcano which is now extinct. 
Can you show some historical evidence of this outside of fundamentalist 
Christian, Islamic or Nazi literature?

Bart