You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan. It's great to be with all of you

today. If this is your first time listening in, we welcome you to the program.

For the past couple of episodes, we've been looking at who the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians and Canaanites and Hebrews and Zoroastrians tell us that God is.

And we found that they universally tell us that God reigns as a celestial king over a celestial

kingdom.

And we just shouldn't see this.

Considering we're talking about different civilizations, I mean, we're talking about the Egyptians

and the Persians and the Canaanites. We should expect to see much, much greater variability in how God

is described, but we just don't. They all tell us the same thing, that the God in heaven

reigns as a king.

It's an incredibly important, stubborn bit that we can trace all the way back to the very onset of human civilization

where we find it talked about in the world's earliest written documents.

When we can do this,

when we can trace something like God's royal nature as a king all the way back

to the dawn of time, I argue that it constitutes an original, pure, or dare I say it, true

tenant of the original religious tradition, which we call on this program the ancient tradition,

that the ancients tellus was imparted to them in the very beginning.

Here's the thing.

Scholars have no idea where the notion of kingship is a form of government and kingship rights came from.

They just suddenly show up at the same time that writing and written records show up around

3000 BC.

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