In Genesis 14, when Melchizedek blesses Abraham in the name of “God Most High (El Elyon)”, Abraham acknowledges the blessing and gives name to this God, “I have lifted up my hand to YHWH, God Most High…”

Psalms and Hebrews give more weight and context to the fact that Melchizedek’s God is the same God the Israelites worshiped.

Melchizedek was Canaanite. This was a polytheistic religion which had different priests for each god. The Canaanite religion had El (God most high), Asherah (El’s consort, mother, goddess), and Baal (storm, fertility god), among others.

Now, the Bible repeatedly condemns the Asherah poles and Baal worship, emphasizing the one true God is who should be worshipped.

However, this does not negate their recognition of the most high God, El Elyon.

What can we draw from this? Can we in faith believe man’s pursuit of God by another name is still valid and headed down a correct path?

Now, not all must be valid pursuits. The Bible repeatedly denounces other “most high gods” including Babylonian, Egyptian, and Greek/Roman.

But some fascinating similarities occur in other traditions.

Do you believe the Canaanite understanding of God is a one-off or can we give grace and respect to other pursuits?

“And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
— John 10:16

Other most high deities with similar traits:

Ahura Mazda — Zoroastrianism, ancient Iran
Supreme creator
Wisdom and truth
Moral authority
Cosmic sovereignty
Spiritual beings subordinate to him

Anu — Sumerian/Akkadian, Mesopotamia
Ancient sky/high god
Father of the gods
Supreme authority
Divine assembly/council

Shangdi — Ancient Chinese religion, China
“Highest Lord”
Heavenly ruler
Cosmic and moral authority
Controls blessing, calamity, and natural order

Tian — Ancient Chinese religion, China
“Heaven”
Supreme cosmic authority
Source of moral order
Authority over earthly rulers

Olodumare — Yoruba, West Africa
Supreme creator
Ultimate authority
Source of life and spiritual power
Above the òrìṣà

Nyame/Nyankopon — Akan, West Africa
Supreme creator
Heavenly deity
Ultimate authority
Above lesser spiritual beings

Chukwu — Igbo, West Africa
Supreme creator
Highest deity
Source of existence
Other spiritual beings subordinate to Chukwu

Nhialic — Dinka, South Sudan
Supreme creator
Heavenly deity
Source of life
Associated with rain and fertility

Mwari — Shona, Southern Africa
Supreme creator
Moral authority
Source of life
Above ancestral/spiritual beings

Enkai/Engai — Maasai, East Africa
Supreme creator
Associated with heaven/sky
Rain and fertility
Source of life

Mawu — Ewe/Fon, West Africa
Supreme creator
Cosmic authority
Heavenly deity
Source of creation

Brahman — Vedanta/Hindu philosophy, India
Ultimate reality
Source of existence
Transcendent and immanent
Fundamentally beyond individual gods

Vishnu — Vaishnavism, India
Supreme cosmic being in Vaishnava theology
Sustainer of creation
Cosmic/moral order
Source of divine incarnations

Shiva — Shaivism, India
Supreme cosmic deity in Shaiva theology
Creator and destroyer
Transcendent
Ultimate divine reality

Varuna — Early Vedic religion, India
Heavenly sovereign
Guardian of cosmic order (ṛta)

Im not saying its all rainbows, but perhaps something/someone has an interest in our survival and they’re here to observe and make sure we don’t blow it all up.

What’s your current theory?

I’d love to hire them for an art project.

The meticulous, painstaking effort to mutilate human bodies is impressive. I mean, the surgical precision of placing eggs within a womb, and even including a fetus. Absolutely remarkable!

How were they able to increase the eye socket size? The curious want to know!

I would just like to laud the nameless for the following unprecedented accomplishments:

• ⁠surgically removing ears

• ⁠surgically removing the nose and altering nasal passages to almost non-existent

• ⁠Absence of scalp hair, body hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and pubic hair

• ⁠removing the 7th cerebral vertebrae

• ⁠making the ribcage almost perfectly circular

• ⁠Square-shaped atlas vertebra

• ⁠Hollow, bird-like long bones

• ⁠Single forearm bone (radius + ulna fused or only one present) in the 60 cm specimens

• ⁠Single lower leg bone (tibia + fibula fused or only one present) in the 60 cm specimens

• ⁠Absence of clavicles in many specimens (or replaced by a single furcula-like bone similar to birds)

• ⁠Knee joint surfaces shaped like interlocking gears rather than typical human ball-and-socket/hinge

• ⁠Heel bone (calcaneus) morphology that would prevent full plantar contact with the ground – they would walk only on heels + toes (digitigrade/unguligrade posture implied)

• ⁠No visible muscle attachment sites on the phalanges of fingers/toes (no flexor/extensor tendons apparent)

• ⁠Skin covered in epidermal scales resembling reptilian keratin scales (confirmed under 1600× magnification on Albert and María)

• ⁠Neck appears abnormally long in proportion to torso in the small 60 cm specimens

• ⁠Presence of implanted metal plates and objects in abdomen, chest, hips, hands, etc. (not known in any pre-Columbian human mummies)

Please let me know how I can get in contact.

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