Long before there was a Torah, a Gospel, or a Quran, there was Sumer. Before One God traces the real origins of Yahweh through Canaan, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, uncovering the ancient gods that influenced the Bible and the history behind biblical stories you were never taught in Sunday school.
Rob Cliff Lowe spent years sitting in the same pews, singing the same songs, and accepting the same version of the story everyone around him accepted, until one small, reasonable question refused to stay quiet.
What started as curiosity about the origins of Christianity and Judaism turned into years of independent research into comparative religion, ancient Near Eastern history, and biblical textual criticism, the same questions at the heart of every real faith deconstruction book.
He is not a theologian, a pastor, or an academic with a framed degree on the wall. He is, in his own words, "a guy who started pulling one thread and watched the whole sweater come apart", and Before One God is the record of exactly what he found once he did.
"Man creates God in his own image, and then, to make the masterpiece complete, stitches together the limbs of dead myths to rule over the living."
Before One God is a biblical history and archaeology book that answers the question millions have quietly asked: did the Bible borrow from ancient myths? The evidence says yes, and this book lays out exactly how.
Before Israel ever wrote down the name Yahweh, the Canaanites had already built him an entire family: a father, a mother, and a house full of squabbling siblings on Mount Zaphon. Before that, Egypt was building its own gods out of clay and floodwater. And before any of it, there was Sumer.
This book traces that lineage, starting in Genesis, Chapter 1, and working backward and outward through Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Greek pantheon, laying the biblical account next to the older stories it was assembled from. It's a clear eyed look at the ancient gods that influenced the Bible, and the history behind biblical stories most readers assume started with scripture instead of ending there.
This isn't a fringe theory. It's the mainstream conclusion of decades of comparative religion, archaeology, and biblical scholarship, finally written for the person lying awake at 3 a.m.,wondering why none of it ever quite added up. If you're questioning Christianity, or just questioning where any of this actually came from, this is the book for you.
If you've ever wondered where the God of the Bible really came from, or found yourself questioning Christianity and the story you were handed as a kid, Before One God was written for you. Get your copy today and see the history behind biblical stories for yourself.
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Before One God has resonated with readers questioning Christianity, exploring faith deconstruction, and simply curious about where it all began.
I have read a lot of books like this, and none of them were as clear as this. It didn’t tell me what to believe; it just showed me the evidence and let me think for myself. Truly interesting.
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This book has all those questions in which I had been sitting and thinking but never had the courage to say out loud. It felt less like reading a book but more like finally coming to reality
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As someone in the middle of my own faith deconstruction, this was exactly the book I needed. Thorough, honest, and never preachy about it.
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