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96:1.12 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites Canaanites] had long [[revered]] [[Yahweh]], and although many of the [[Kenites]] believed more or less in [[El Elyon]], the supergod of the [[Salem]] [[religion]], a [[majority]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannanites Canaanites] held loosely to the [[worship]] of the old [[tribal]] [[deities]]. They were hardly willing to abandon their [[national]] [[deities]] in favor of an international, not to say an [[interplanetary]], [[God]]. They were not [[universal]]-[[deity]] minded, and therefore these [[tribes]] continued to [[worship]] their [[tribal]] [[deities]], including [[Yahweh]] and the silver and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf golden calves] which [[symbolized]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouin] herders' [[concept]] of the spirit of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Sinai] volcano.

96:1.12 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites Canaanites] had long [[revered]] [[Yahweh]], and although many of the [[Kenites]] believed more or less in [[El Elyon]], the supergod of the [[Salem]] [[religion]], a [[majority]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannanites Canaanites] held loosely to the [[worship]] of the old [[tribal]] [[deities]]. They were hardly willing to abandon their [[national]] [[deities]] in favor of an international, not to say an [[interplanetary]], [[God]]. They were not [[universal]]-[[deity]] minded, and therefore these [[tribes]] continued to [[worship]] their [[tribal]] [[deities]], including [[Yahweh]] and the silver and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf golden calves] which [[symbolized]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouin] herders' [[concept]] of the spirit of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Sinai] volcano.

96:1.13 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Syria Syrians], while [[worshiping]] their gods, also believed in [[Yahweh]] of the [[Hebrews]], for their [[prophets]] said to the Syrian king: "Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them on the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_20]

96:1.13 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Syria Syrians], while [[worshiping]] their gods, also believed in [[Yahweh]] of the [[Hebrews]], for their [[prophets]] said to the Syrian king: "Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them on the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=First_Book_of_Kings#Chapter_20]

96:1.14 As man advances in [[culture]], the lesser gods are subordinated to a [[supreme]] [[deity]]; the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jove Jove] persists only as an exclamation. The [[monotheists]] keep their subordinate gods as spirits, demons, fates, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereids Nereids], fairies, brownies, dwarfs, banshees, and the evil eye. The [[Hebrews]] passed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism henotheism] and long believed in the [[existence]] of gods other than [[Yahweh]], but they increasingly held that these foreign [[deities]] were subordinate to [[Yahweh]]. They conceded the [[actuality]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosh Chemosh], god of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorites Amorites], but [[maintained]] that he was subordinate to [[Yahweh]].

96:1.14 As man advances in [[culture]], the lesser gods are subordinated to a [[supreme]] [[deity]]; the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jove Jove] persists only as an exclamation. The [[monotheists]] keep their subordinate gods as spirits, demons, fates, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereids Nereids], fairies, brownies, dwarfs, banshees, and the evil eye. The [[Hebrews]] passed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism henotheism] and long believed in the [[existence]] of gods other than [[Yahweh]], but they increasingly held that these foreign [[deities]] were subordinate to [[Yahweh]]. They conceded the [[actuality]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosh Chemosh], god of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorites Amorites], but [[maintained]] that he was subordinate to [[Yahweh]].

96:1.15 The [[idea]] of [[Yahweh]] has undergone the most extensive [[development]] of all the [[mortal]] [[theories]] of [[God]]. Its [[progressive]] [[evolution]] can only be [[compared]] with the [[metamorphosis]] of the [[Buddha]] concept in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_religion Asia], which in the end led to the [[concept]] of the [[Universal Absolute]] even as the [[Yahweh]] concept finally led to the [[idea]] of the [[Universal Father]]. But as a matter of historic [[fact]], it should be understood that, while the [[Jews]] thus changed their views of [[Deity]] from the tribal god of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Horeb Mount Horeb] to the loving and merciful [[Creator]] [[Father]] of later times, they did not [[change]] his name; they continued all the way along to call this evolving concept of [[Deity]], [[Yahweh]].

96:1.15 The [[idea]] of [[Yahweh]] has undergone the most extensive [[development]] of all the [[mortal]] [[theories]] of [[God]]. Its [[progressive]] [[evolution]] can only be [[compared]] with the [[metamorphosis]] of the [[Buddha]] concept in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_religion Asia], which in the end led to the [[concept]] of the [[Universal Absolute]] even as the [[Yahweh]] concept finally led to the [[idea]] of the [[Universal Father]]. But as a matter of historic [[fact]], it should be understood that, while the [[Jews]] thus changed their views of [[Deity]] from the tribal god of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Horeb Mount Horeb] to the loving and merciful [[Creator]] [[Father]] of later times, they did not [[change]] his name; they continued all the way along to call this evolving concept of [[Deity]], [[Yahweh]].

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