A Brief History and Critique of the Academic Search (1854-2010) for the Pre-biblical origins of the Serpent who could walk and talk to man in the Garden of Eden via parallels appearing in Ancient Near Eastern Myths and “Why” the Hebrews blamed a walking, talking Serpent for man’s removal from a God’s garden in Eden. […]
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TTHE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD by Grant Allen
CHAPTER I.—CHRISTIANITY AS A RELIGIOUS STANDARD. Ipropose in this work to trace out in rough outline the evolution of the idea of God from its earliest and crudest beginnings in the savage mind of primitive man to that highly evolved and abstract form which it finally assumes in contemporary philosophical and theological thinking. In the […]