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The First Commandment
By Justin Jenkins | April 13, 2008
“The first commandment is not just promoting monolatry; it is getting at monotheism another way. Although it does not say explicitly that no other gods exist, it does remove them from the presence of Yahweh, if Yahweh does not share power, authority or jurisdiction with them, they are not gods in any meaningful sense of the word.
The first commandment does not insist that the other gods are non-existent, but that they are powerless; it disenfranchises them. It does not simply say that they should not be worshiped it leaves them no status worthy of worship.”
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament, John Walton, p. 156
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