>>509665854
Christians worship God, the Creator who came in the flesh as thr Christ Jesus.
Jews are pagans pretending to be worshipping the Creator when they are rather pantheist were all of the elohims/gods are different forms of God with Satan, that is Saturn/Moloch/Baal/Remphan as their highest.
Muslims are monotheistic satan worshippers believing him to be thr Creator.

Since you mentioned Seth
hyksos indeed are a very likely fit for the Israelites. they were identified as such by flavius josephus in example and the term meaning about as much "foreign shepherds" which israel was for the most parts. Hyksos are told to have worshipped Seth as they see him closest to their own deity baal hadad (zeus basically) which i would identify as Michael and in general is the one God sends all the time. In Example when Israel is led out of Egypt by God, it is said it was an Angel of God thed led them as a pillar of smoke or light, and ultimately destroyed the egyptian forces persuing them. Usually its Michael thats send for "military operation" and defeat enemies. Now Seth is the god of foreigners, and Israel is repeatedly called foreigners in the land of egypt.
There is even an inscription that is claimed to link hyksos to the red sea crossing
https://www.biblehistory.net/newsletter/Red_Sea_Parting.htm

As for circumcission (and extent animal sacrifices) consider all the pagan practices of human and child sacrifices and so by commanding these sacrifices in these ways he outlaws all ither forms and thus essentially a means to keep them from worse practices (which they still got attracted to)

>>508693580
Paul adresses how God was known since the beginning
>20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
Likewise we see that Melchizedek already has a priesthood established before Abraham was ever contacted, and indeed since Melchizedek blesses Abraham it shows Melchizedek to be greater, and thus priesthood to be greater than Abrahams, that is the levitic priesthood. And in fact, as per Paul it is this order of Melchizedek in which we are made priests through Christ (Hebrews 7)

Likewise we see God sending Jonah to Nineveh, a foreign people to make them repent of their sins and call them to God.
And its further prophecized that the Messiah will call onto all the nations
>10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him,b and His place of rest will be glorious. 11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush,c from Elam, from Shinar,d from Hamath, and from the islandse of the sea.
>12He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Israel always was just a tool to bring all the nations back to God

Lso im of the believe that the pagan gods are just the biblical angels, some fallen (pic related). Im sure the others shared some of the good teachings and maybe even told of the coming Christ.
But Christ, that is God born in the flesh, remains a unique occurance.

>>508346984
I think Satan is best explained on the example of the book of Job with Job taking the role of humankind.
Mankind/Job was loved by God, and he was rightouss. Then Satan said that Mankind/Job just loves Him for all the good things God gives them, and that he/we would stop caring when things would go south. So to prove Satan wrong he is allowed to take our good things away, to tempt us and try and make us fall from faith. He brings poverty, illness, famine, natural disasters just so that in the end Job/Mankind is still there and praising God.

Now one may ask why God tolerates it, but this way He proves to all in existence that Satan is wrong, God is right, while using our own wickedness to create the right struggle to make us stronger through preserverance, like hammering iron in the fire

I would add that we see the story of eden and the battle of satan and michael in many cultures, where sometimes satan isnt malicious but incompetent, kind of like the gnostic demiurge

How the Bible fits with the mythology around the world

How the Bible fits with the mythology around the world