Who was god talking to in this passage? Was he talking to marty from true detective?
He was talking to Rust and Rust memed on him.
>rule over all animals
>>1802777
Royal we.
>>1802805
Or addresing the angels, or the trinity.
Or the rest of the pantheon, if you subscribe to the whole "YHWH did a Stalin on the rest of the celestial Party"
>>1802839
Polytheism going monotheistic is hardly unusual. Zoroaster tried doing exactly that, even to the point of using the inherited indo-iranian word for "deity" for demonic beings. He was kind of an autist though, and the Younger Avesta is a lot more varied and polytheistic than the Gathas. Also some weird strands of Hinduism I guess, but I'm not sure if it's even appropriate to call them *theisms.
What is peculiar about Yahweh (and not a Trinity YHWH because it's an Old Testament text) is that his name does not appear in pre-exile Palestinian inscriptions except possibly in certain patronymics, suggesting that he was either an imported deity syncretized with El or one of five million epithets for El that happen to not have epigraphically survived.
>>1802943
>Did the angels exist before man?
Yes
>Did the trinity exist before man?
Yes
>How is that possible if jesus wasn't born yet?
His physical body on earth didn't exist yet.