@nerthos @georgia @shibao

It's not Yahweh I see as my enemy. Certainly no moreso than Marvel's Spiderman is my enemy. What I see as my enemy is the rhetoric in the BuyBull which causes people to react with prejudice and violence towards people outside their faith group (such as Pagans, etc).

If that weren't the case I'd be happy to reciprocate mutual respect and tolerance as I do any other religious community or spiritual tradition. But since that's not the case, and so long as the literature continues to be promoted it will remain the case, I can only in good conscience regard it with the level of abject disdain it has amply earned.

Anyway, to understand the concept's of your own belief system, you should also look into the belief systems which heavily influenced the development of it's theology. For example...

Rebirth in John and the Hermetic Literature | M. David Litwa
https://youtu.be/cl_Y3ofrYjo