Sorrrrrt of. It depends on whose rules you want to follow. The original Jews were polytheistic, though during the time of Jesus most had become monotheistic. In any case, the “you shall have no gods before me” is literally saying that Yahweh is the top god, not that he is the only god. There’s plenty of other gods in the old testament and Jesus even references some of them, like the Son of Man.
It’s pretty easy to argue that all Christians have lost their way when it comes to their polytheistic origins. Even if you don’t want to argue that, you just have to point to all the arguments in the early church about whether Jesus was a god or not, and if he was, was he the god or not to basically throw out any idea of what a proper Christian is.
(An aside, Jesus did not believe himself to be a god or in any way divine. He never made any such claims. He believed he was the King of the Jews, like David and Solomon, except that he was going to be the last one. He believed that within his lifetime the Judgment Day would come and God would decide who got to live in the next world, based on how good they were in this world. Jesus would become King and his disciples would help rule his kingdom in this next world.
There’s a lot more to the story of Jesus and it’s all very interesting but this whole comment was already mostly pointless rambling so I’m gonna stop here.)
Yeah, I have heard that early Judaism accepted polytheism as a given, maybe even something like pandeism, they just believed there was a single ultimate power.
Sorrrrrt of. It depends on whose rules you want to follow. The original Jews were polytheistic, though during the time of Jesus most had become monotheistic. In any case, the “you shall have no gods before me” is literally saying that Yahweh is the top god, not that he is the only god. There’s plenty of other gods in the old testament and Jesus even references some of them, like the Son of Man.
It’s pretty easy to argue that all Christians have lost their way when it comes to their polytheistic origins. Even if you don’t want to argue that, you just have to point to all the arguments in the early church about whether Jesus was a god or not, and if he was, was he the god or not to basically throw out any idea of what a proper Christian is.
(An aside, Jesus did not believe himself to be a god or in any way divine. He never made any such claims. He believed he was the King of the Jews, like David and Solomon, except that he was going to be the last one. He believed that within his lifetime the Judgment Day would come and God would decide who got to live in the next world, based on how good they were in this world. Jesus would become King and his disciples would help rule his kingdom in this next world.
There’s a lot more to the story of Jesus and it’s all very interesting but this whole comment was already mostly pointless rambling so I’m gonna stop here.)
Yeah, I have heard that early Judaism accepted polytheism as a given, maybe even something like pandeism, they just believed there was a single ultimate power.