Update re "Origins of Evolution and Religion"

A Personal Update

Hi,

I am currently working up the next phase to humanity's origins and religions. The new title may be "Evolution of Civilizations" or some such.

Be patient. I am simply catching up with other topics before proceeding further.

Articles forthcoming will look at late mesolithic and early neolithic civilizations and their beliefs.

This will then transition to the major Mesopotamian civilizations and religions forming the background and context for Israel's civilization and religion.

To conclude, I would like to view Israel's polytheism with its later developing monotheism. It's quite evident in the Psalms, for instance, when knowing Yahweh's background as a Semeitc "god of storm".

Thus, we will examine into the developing Hebraic tradition behind the various names of God such as Yahweh, Adonai, and El Shaddai (many gods).

For those of you who haven't done so already, go to the Index - Evolution of Man & Religion to catch up across the past six weeks of work (basically the first thirty articles).

One last, my wife and I are taking a two week spring break ahead of a scheduled infectious foot surgery... something I've been dealing with since my hospital stay gone-wrong in 2016. It's been hellishly brutal and the dee[ infection will not go away without amputation. Hence another clean out and another span of weeks or months to heal again.

This is probably my eighth surgery on my foot and ankle. The first being the worst pain-wise; the second prevented me from dying due to full body sepsis; and all my later follow ups have addressed infectious abscesses as they come up every six-twelve months. So it's serious but something I am living with as non-disruptively as possible....

In summary, I will be using this week to draft-up future articles and hopefully not slow down when returning back home - and a week later, back to surgery one more time.

So prayers and patience for a bit. There's enough here on this website to keep one's attention and I've written everything so the content can be utilized in the classroom, conversation circles, and the church across a number of subjects.

Blessings,

R.E. Slater
April 1, 2023