Has the Abrahamic God changed according to each faction?

The book to read is A History of God, by Karen Armstrong. It addresses your question as completely as can be done. If you are truely looking for an answer, read the book.

It is my understanding that most faiths believe there is one God. Different faiths worship different earthly manifestations of that one God. Christians worship Jesus Christ. Muslims believe Muhammad is God’s messenger. Bahá’ís believe Bahá’u’lláh is God’s manifestation for today. All worship the same God and believe the writings of a different prophet of God.

This website will give you a good, quick guide to the origins of the myth of Jesus Christ. It turns out that the idea of a godman bringing salvation was common in Mediterranean religions including those in Egypt and Greece. I would venture a short answer to your question would be that the myth of god and other religious ideas was as easily traded among ancient tribes as cattle and wives.

I think you can just look at how the various Abraham Religions have treated one another and answer that. Jews, Christians and Muslims all have had their goes at killing one another because their beliefs in the great Sky Daddy are not in sync with one another. For that matter, various flavors of Christians have purged one another, held their inquisitions and wars of the protestant reformation. And Muslims routinely blow one another up because their Muslim brother doesn’t believe the same line of succession down from Mohammed as they do.

Karen Armstrong wrote great books. I can also recommend them.

I don’t believe in different entities. I believe in one God and it doesn’t matter what names we use. In a galaxy one billion light years away it’s still the same God and the same natural laws and intelligent beings might use yet again a completely different name. God might have sent his daughter to live and teach the beings there.

But why would people write about Enki, Enlil, An, Ligash, and others in first and second person as though these entities were speaking directly to them? I can always presume that these entities, every single one of them including YHWH, were all human beings as were we; with the intent to develop nations and using mysticism and intellect to manipulate an influential person to convince others of their work. That’s pure speculation and many others can be manifested, but the only reason I want to know this is because why would Sumerians depict gods as earthly and interpersonal, whereas the changed versions of these became more and more personal and singular in the sense that….Oh….Nevermind, I just figured it out. It became the beginning of controlling knowledge. He who controlled the knowledge controlled the people. Oh wow. Nevermind.

For an interesting speculation about the changing relationship between God and man, I recommend The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind The book is much more readable than its title would suggest. The first user review gives a good summary. The only thing that I would add is that Jaynes cites passages in the Bible to back up his claims of a change in perspective. How accurate the theory is, is impossible to judge, but it will give you something to think about.

@LostInParadise Thank you.