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   SuperLutheran (kicky half) (superlutheran@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:15:54 JST SuperLutheran (kicky half)
   100 years or so after the Exodus, Pharaoh Akhenaten decided to make Egypt into a monotheistic state and destroy its idols. He destroyed the power of the priesthood and insisted that "Aten" was the true and sole creator deity which all Egyptians were to worship.
   
   The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether this was an attempt to get Egypt to repent and worship the true God. After Akhenaten's death, the country went right back to idolatry and paganism. Why? I suspect their lack of revelation (e.g., the Pentateuch) contributed to it, making Akhenaten the only authority on this monotheistic revolution. Couldn't last, especially since he ticked off the entirety of the pagan priesthood.
   
   But there's another element at play - everyone in Egypt would have known that this creator deity, "Aten" was the same deity that wiped out their armies and killed their firstborn a century prior. Telling them to submit to that same God was telling them their ancestors were *wrong,* and pride got in the way.
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     Branman65? (branman65@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:15:54 JST Branman65?

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     @SuperLutheran Akhenaten was horribly slandered by the succeeding dynasties (neither of Tutankhamen's children survived and he died at 19, ending the 18th dynasty) as "that criminal" or "the enemy", people would call him "heretic" "mad" and "possibly insane", his monuments destroyed. if He and Nefertiti's attempts were a legitimate attempt to bring Egypt to worship the one true God, and that the couple believed in the one true God, may God rest their souls.
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     SuperLutheran (kicky half) (superlutheran@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:17:37 JST SuperLutheran (kicky half)

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     @FourOh-LLC You...you trust in ChatGPT for your religious beliefs?
     Well, I will stick with what my Bible says.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:17:39 JST FourOh-LLC

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     Just ask this question to ChatGPT - be amazed.
     "What religion focuses more on ceremony, dogma, tradition than the actual God or Gods?"
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     King_Noticer (king_noticer@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:17:44 JST King_Noticer

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     • FourOh-LLC
     @SuperLutheran @FourOh-LLC The only GPT to trust is God's Perfect Text :blinksmug:
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     Crux_Invictus (crux_invictus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 10:18:02 JST Crux_Invictus

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     @King_Noticer @SuperLutheran @FourOh-LLC You know it
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