At the core of all human endeavors is the burning desire to be like God. The desire is already expressed in the third chapter of Genesis: “For God knows that on the day you eat of it” (of the Fruit of Knowledge) “then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as God..” (Genesis 3:5).
But what does it mean to be like God?
The serpent expresses it explicitly: “You shall be like Elohim, knowing good and bad” (Genesis 3:5) (Elohim is Hebrew for God as the creator).
Jewish prophets have incessantly preached differently:
“I am Jehovah speaking righteousness, I declare things that are right” (Isaiah 45:19) (Jehovah is Hebrew for God as source of morality and virtues).
Human history is the tale of nations and individuals seeking to be as powerful as Elohim via dominating resources (whether of knowledge, of humans beings (erroneously perceived as resource) or of physical properties).
Human history is also a tale of nations and individuals ignoring the message of the Jewish prophets that to be like God also means to be like Jehovah
(all the while concurrently harming the carriers of this inconvenient message).
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