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Originally Posted by PolishHebrew1
One of the big theological differences that i came across was the Fall of Lucifer and the many other Angels that started a rebellion against G-d.
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My question i guess is how it got started in the first place and why it continued in Christian theology?
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Those who rebelled against the gods in the first place were the lower class gods and then the men.
If you really want to know
how it got started in the first place you have to read texts older than the Hebrew texts.
As regards Christian theology, it produced only one original idea and that is that the God is omniscient (the God of the OT is not) and also all beneficent and merciful (which the God of the OT is also not).
Moreover, the Christian theology was forced to take a step back and recognize a female deity. A Goddess (the "Mother of the gods" of the polytheistic religions) that does not exist in the purely theocratic OT.
If you truly want to understand theology, you have to take into consideration tradition and mythology because theology borrowed the idea of the existence of gods from popular tradition and not the other way round.