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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reskinned cultic Persian diety known as Mithras. Mithras was not related in any way to the Abrahamic god and it's not known how the historical Jesus borrowed large elements from the Mithras legend other than plagiarism.

El is the name of an abrahamic storm god believed to be God. He was once a member of a Canaanite (and probably before then) pantheon but its clerics overthrew the old order and installed El as the sole god. Hilariously the clerics didn't remove all references to El's divine wife, Asherah, from the bible and you can still see references to her even today. Although most references are to the symbols of Ashera and not the goddess.

Religious scholars do backflips to try and explain why a pagan god exists in the bible and they can't get around the most obvious answer that it's a error and the name had been partially edited out of older versions of the bible.