”The religion of yesterday becomes the superstition of today.”

It is beyond dispute that God does not change, as he is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

However, man’s conceptualization of God changes from time to time, generation to generation, and culture to culture due to some kind of progressive revelation whose authentication itself is an open question.

In the ancient Near Eastern world, it was once postulated that God had a family—wife and children. Thus in the Semitic religion God had a spouse known as Asherah, a name which had cognates in other cultural groups such as Ašratu(m) in Akkadian, Aserdu(s) in Hittite, and Athirat in Ugaritic traditions.

In all, this goddess bore children to the male head God, who themselves were deities including among others, Shapshu (sun), Yarih (moon), Shahar (dawn), and Shalim (dusk).

In the contexts of the 20th and 21st centuries, the framework within which these divinities functioned, has come to be characterized by such terms as mythology or superstition.

God is now viewed to be ontologically self-dependent, omnipotent and omniscient. He is the “I AM” who causes to exist by his word of mouth without needing a medium.

In all this, the question that bears talking points is whether or not future generations shall come up with a different conceptualization of God from our own.

Will there come a day when all that we now believe shall be nothing but superstition? Everything we say at this time is mere speculation and yet it is undeniable that ”The religion of yesterday becomes the superstition of today” as J.A. Montgomery observes.

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