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Do you think that the Ethiopians did not know or could not comprehend the idea of the living God behind all creation including the sun and moon before the introduction of this supposedly unique Yahweh?
Do you think perhaps the Ethiopians saw the cycles of the sun and moon as a natural pattern which could show some idea as to the pattern of the Most High who is behind all things in the INIverse?
All Judeo-Christianity is built on the former ideas - the same stories of the sun and moon are found within the scripture, but veiled in allegory with supposed historical characters. It is ignorance which states that Judeo-Christianity is anything new.
Some think that because they worship an image of a man instead of something such as the sun they are not bowing to idols. But I will say this - can man communicate without his symbols and reference points and with finite things to point to an infinite idea? NO. The true and living god is behind the creation indeed - but we refer to the Most High with finite I-cepts which our minds can grasp.
Idol worship is when our CON-cepts become what is worshipped rather than the TRUTH to which those I-cepts are supposed to lead I and I to.
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