as God Most High
God established the concept of Monotheism through the Hebrew epic because the ancient pagans didn't have the concept clear in their minds that there was a Great Spirit over and above our human representations of It. However, monotheism as real belief system is quite impossible for human beings because our brains only conceive of things in terms of contrasts, i.e., "this vs. that". Oneness as a concept is really impossible to imagine. Try it, you always wind up contrasting One with more than one. Oneness cannot be comprehended by human minds with their "on/off" biochemistry. This is why monotheism as a concept quickly devolved under Hebrew religious definition into God the Father representing the whole Godhead. The Godhead, the Holy One of Heaven & Earth is above the Man, but it is spiritually important that human beings have a heavenly model of Man so God the Father becomes that model. But who really is "God the Father" in Judeo-Christian belief? Is it EL Elyon or Yahweh? It wasn't Yahweh but EL Elyon who was said to have stated in the Canaanite Ugarit cuniform texts, "War is against my wish; Plant the seeds of peace in the heart of the earth."EL is Jesus' "Good Father"
EL Elyon is the Masculine aspect of the Holy One that Yieshu-Jesus worshipped and served and told us to do likewise. EL was originally the Canaanites' highest God, their God Most High, EL Elyon which is also what Hebrews called Him too when they came into the Promised Land and eventually absorbed much of Canaanite religious concepts about EL and tried to add them to their God Yahweh's character profile. Unfortunately, EL was quite a bit different from Yahweh so the assimilation didn't take hold deeper than becoming an alternate name for God for the Hebrews. But EL was not Yahweh. EL was called the "Kindly One", "EL the Compassionate", "EL the Merciful", "EL the Father of Humanity", "EL the Father of Years" ("Father Time" and the "Ancient of Days"), "EL the Creator", and "EL the Father of the Divine Assembly" which shows up in Genesis as "Elohim", the very interesting pluralization of EL, the Creator as "Us". "'El is latipanu Žilu dupaŽidu, "the Compassionate God of Mercy." He is not easily moved to anger. The Kindly One, He blesses us and He forgives us when we do things we shouldn't. If we say we are sorry, this is usually sufficient, and He accepts this as atonement. He mourns for our pain and rejoices in our happiness. `Anat says to ŽEl: your decree, ŽEl, is wise; your wisdom is forever; A life of good fortune is your decree. ŽAsherah says to ŽEl: You are great, ŽEl, indeed you are wise, the gray hair of your beard indeed instructs you." EL was "Father of the Divine Assembly" on the "Mount of Assembly". EL ruled this Heavenly Council but He wasn't a jealous God for He shared co-dominion with Asherah, and He wasn't a Storm God like Yahweh, Baal, or even Zeus, ready to send a lightening bolt down on anyone who disobeyed him. EL didn't punish humans for their foibles living in Creation with its natural laws dividing Life between order and chaos. And it was to EL to whom Jesus cried out from the cross. "My God EL, My God EL, why hast thou forsaken Me"? before He died because the Spirit of EL did leave Jesus at death and left most of traditional Christian communities when Paul brought back Yahweh's schizophrenic Love/Hate Spirit into the religion and made Christianity the religion most people know today with its horrible history of spiritual repression, love and hate combined. Jesus was named after Yahweh but he knew his Good Father EL and tried his best to fulfill the transformation of Yahweh into EL by initiating the Spirit of Christ as unconditional love and compassion for all in need of healing and comfort. The Spirit of Christ comes from EL, not Yahweh before Jesus.Yahweh's "love" was always conditional on obedience and only extended to those who showed obedience to his Law. All others Yahweh would punish.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" Yahweh rules by fear. EL rules with compassion and wisdom. When EL was God Most High in Canaan, the fearsome one was Baal, "the Lord" and EL's underling enforcer of Order over Chaos. The battle Yahweh wages against Baal reflects Yahweh's jealousy of Baal and Yahweh's lower state of spiritual consciousness. Jesus taught us not to fear our heavenly Father but to fear Him, "the one who is able to destroy both body and soul in Gehenna." -Luke 12: 4-5 "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 The Rastafarian "Jah" as "One Love" reflects the transformation of Yahweh's characteristics into EL's through the Spirit of Christ. Rev 3:12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God." EL is the name of Jesus' God and Ariel is the name of spiritual Jerusalem.** See Isaiah 29
God established the concept of Monotheism through the Hebrew epic because the ancient pagans didn't have the concept clear in their minds that there was a Great Spirit over and above our human representations of the Creator of all Things. The pagans got lost in the confusion of proliferation of gods and goddesses, the symbolic meaning of the Tower of Babel. For a full discussion of the ramifications of worshipping two different gods as God Most High, please go to the EL vs. Yahweh chapter.