"...Today, Christians have a cosmology that’s been—well, dumbed down since the apostolic age. We’ve been taught for the last 1,600 years that since God is the only true god, then the gods of the countries around ancient Israel were nothing more than imaginary beings represented by carved images.
That is, to be blunt, spectacularly incorrect.
The authors of the books of the Bible understood that there were many small-G gods. They knew that these supernatural entities had been assigned to the nations, but that Israel had been reserved for Yahweh. Their writings reflected this. It’s in the Bible. We just haven’t heard about it in church."
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