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What is the difference between Hebrew Gods and Egyptian gods in ancient times?
what are some examples of the differances, besides that hebrew has one god and egyptians have many.
The ancient Egyptian religion (which, like many ancient religions has no agreed upon name and evolved over time) differed from early Judaism in a number of ways. Like you state in your question, the ancient Egyptians worshiped a “pantheon,” which is a group of gods. The religions of Abraham grew out of a need to move on from the polytheistic gods of the ancient Middle East, and rejected the idea that any living man could be divine (while Egyptians worshiped the Pharaoh.) Many Egyptian gods were also fallible, unlike the God of Abraham.
Further still, ancient Egyptian religion had no doctrine, and was mostly passed down orally; whereas Judaism was established with a set of texts pertaining to it, leaving it more rigid and developing dogma.
Related to that last point, the Pharaoh determined moral conduct through his rule, whereas the Hebrew God established a set of rules (most prominent among them was the 10 Commandments) which would ideally not change at the whim of any one person on Earth.
EDIT: Oh, one other thing; the Ancient Egyptian religion has a very strong focus on the afterlife. Jews seemed to believe that if one followed the word of God, he would be rewarded in the afterlife, while the Egyptians believed that ceremony and funerary rites would lead to a prosperous afterlife.
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