If god exists and other gods don't, why did god tell Moses to not have "other gods before me"?

Ma-a-a-ate, that was some pretty damned effective bait-laying you did there - I was hoping for more comedy, specifically IRONY, but "He was referring to manmade[sic] gods such as buhhda[sic].” AND “… for this makes God angry and was one of the main sins that he held against the Isrealites[sic]." weren’t bad.

I love how so many of ‘them’ are so confident and ‘knowledgeable’; they much prefer NOT to use spell-checker.

Keep up the good work.

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The Bible recognises the existence of the Canaanite god Ba'al in several places.

The truth is that Christian monotheism originated in the deserts of Egypt which was formerly Polytheist. Hence the early followers were on very close guard for the old influences.

In later times the Egyptian ideas were tempered with the ideas of Zoroastrianism with its bi-polar right/wrong mentality which remains the lynchpin of Christian morality to this day. Before that it was simple obedience hence Commandments, Deuteronomy etc.

Because he wanted to iniate a rap battle to get his street cred up but the mixtape only went so far because he didn't call out amun-ra by name(Egyptian god Jay-Z). All good, cause the label exploded years later when his kid started dropping dope rhymes on some ill beats son.

I agree with geshorse95;

He means to not make a god of something, meaning an idol. Such as money, for example. When someone starts obsessing too much over money, that would be making money your idol, or, "god".

nor should you have an other god in place of him, as if there is another god whom provides for you, what he does.... having faith in such gods will only frustrate you, not to mention, your asking such another none existing god for things, you aren t going help from and frustrate yourself, for guidance and help, it can t provide for you.......

Ever heard of the Grigori? they were fallen angels that were given a job to watch over mankind but they fell in love with humans and taught them how to use white magic and had children with humans, which was called the Nephilim.

I think that the Grigori fooled humans to worship them in exchange for pussy and I think they are the gods of the Greeks, Norse, Egyptian etc...

lol why would God be jealous? he just wants to keep mankind at the right path.

People create gods. (another word for it could be idol)

1 Timothy 2:3-6

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all...

Israel was completely surrounded by and lived among people who believed many deities existed. The Hebrews began as a small tribe, a band of people who abandoned belief in other deities ( they believed to be real ) the language of the Torah is as much replacement theology to the beliefs of Baal, Molech, Beelzebub, Dagon, Astoreth, Tammuz, etc etc etc..and many aspects of the language came from polytheism and were adapted and redefined for the covenant faith of Israel. The word EL in Hebrew means deity...much the same way that God means deity in English. El or Al originally meant ( pre Abraham and pre Torah) the NAME of a primary Sumerian deity, in much the same way the word Gott ( Germanic ) from which our word God is derived from the primary Visgoth deity Gott.( I don't think any English speaker is praying to a Visgoth deity when we pray to God.) When a new belief appears, the existing language is used to describe it, and often reassigns meaning.

Jews complain today as we have for 2,000 years about the reassigned meaning that Christianity has tried to give to many terms found in the Tanakh. But like it or not, we have to admit..Judaism did the same thing to the meanings of many words that first belonged to peoples who worshipped many gods, the ancient Hebrew's ancestors were of course, polytheistic and every time Israel tried to introduce elements of foreign or idolatrous belief into Judaism, the Tanakh relates of calamity that befell Israel.

In fact, one could even claim that it was not coincidental that the Second Temple was destroyed just as a belief was starting in the land of Israel that turned a Jew into a deity!

The story of the Passover has a passage where God tells Moses that he is punishing the false Gods of Egypt with the plagues. Pharaohs were believed to be man/gods, they also worshipped deities of borh sheep and goats and the paschal lamb could be either. They took the blood ( they believed blood was the very life force) of the Egyptians false god and dipped hyssop, used to purify the Egyptian temples no less, and placed it on their doors as an act of defiance and trust that God would pass over and protect them and that the false deities of Egypt could do them no harm. They were to roast and eat the representative of the false God in the very presence of the Egyptians without any harm befalling them. don't take my word for it. Read the story in Exodus and see what the Paschal lamb really represents in Torah. An act of defiance to false gods and an act of trust in the God of Israel. It was never ever..I repeat..NEVER viewed by any believing Jew as any form of sin sacrifice.

So, after the Israelites had this massive demonstration to them, breaking the yolk of idolatry and superstition that had been tearing at them for 430 years, they rededicate themselves as an eternal covenant people at Sinai when Moses received those commandments. Don't forget..the Shema was also heard there. Hear O'Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is ONE.

Jews believe in one God. Others are free to believe in as many as they want, or to believe in man/gods, or to not believe in any god. It isn't something Jews are going to condemn you to hell if you don't believe God exists. (Actually we don't even have that eternal hell thing of Christianity either, and no demi-god Devil of the underworld) I was simply trying to explain a little bit of the Jewish perspective and to consider how language was used and how the Hebrews/ Israelites/ Jewish people have struggled with the God who is ONE> The very NAME Israel means struggle with God. Am Yisrael Chai! (the people Israel, live!)

Shalom :)

edit: Everard..I hope I didn't come off arrogant and fundie like..I'm not ya know. I am married to an agnostic and I don't try to convert him so I'm not about to try to convert anyone else :)

And I didn't use spell check..so excuse any misspellings.

Don't expect a rational answer from Christians on this one. For that matter, don't expect a rational answer from Christians on any of the contradictions contained in their contradiction-laden belief system.

If no other gods existed, there wouldn't be any other gods for people to have in the first place, false or not.

he meant no other idols, not to worship something false. I guess you're a retard because only retards have to have everythin explained specifically or they won't believe it

He was referring to manmade gods such as buhhda.They are fake gods that man made up and carved instead of the one true living God.It is better not to worship anything at all than to worship something manmade for this makes God angry and was one of the main sins that he held against the Isrealites.