I believe it is something like, "I am your God and you shall take no other God before me."

I've been thinking about this for awhile now, and maybe it's just the way it's worded combined with my crazy thinking but... Has anyone else ever considered that maybe God (if he exists) isn't alone? The fact it says "No other God" implies that maybe God could be just one individual among another species, with each person in that species all having the same "powers" and/or "knowledge" has the God that created us.

Maybe the God that created us was just experimenting one day and surprise! here we are, a new species in the universe.

It explains (to me anyway) why "God" got screwed by Satan and is follows. Maybe some other member of his species that found out what was happening and didn't like it?

Just a theory, you can laugh & pick it apart now.

The Tanakh(Old Testament) routinely mentions that there are other gods, but that they are false, so they are gods only in symbol. False idols.

There were several other active religious cults in Israel, up until the reign of Ezra. The completion of Monotheism is major in any study of Judaism. The theology is that The G-d slowly reviled himself as the only god, so to not alienate the Polytheistic Hebrews.

Yes.

The way I take that commandment is that there are indeed other beings that you can worship, but not to actually think of them as above "God" the being.



[This message has been edited by Merlinman2005 (edited 10-28-2006).]