Not chosen by “God” …. But chosen by Yahweh.
Gnostic cosmogony presents a distinction between a supreme, hidden God and a malevolent lesser divinity (sometimes associated with the biblical deity Yahweh) who is responsible for creating the material universe.
The Gnostic interpretation of Yahweh as a self-absorbed lesser demiurge is far more in line with scripture than the ultimate Heavenly Father interpretation.
To briefly explain it, Gnosticism places Yahweh as a lesser God to the Supreme Being. This demiurge is narcissism personified, and in the pursuit of self-glory created the universe. Of course, this is a very complicated belief system that cannot be fully explained in two sentences, but that's basically the gist of it.
Thanks, this explains a lot. Supreme Being - is something I actually believe in. A higher, non-material, timeless consciousness with which all people, animals and plants are connected, or even are parts of it. This explains even the basic question that people should ask themselves: why am I here? What is the purpose of life?
On the other hand, accepting this idea makes all religions useless
The greatest mystics of all the World Religions, all the greatest Scientists and Philosophers including Einstein, Carl Sagan and Spinoza were Pantheists that understood that if God is Infinite then Everything is God. How can anything exist outside or separate from the Infinite ? Everything is connected because everything is the same infinite substance. Everything is One, there is nothing else.
Amen
So many gods … even in the Jewish Bible (Torah)
Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, and later with Canaan. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age, if not somewhat earlier.
In the oldest biblical literature, he possesses attributes typically ascribed to weather and war deities, fructifying the land and leading the heavenly army against Israel's enemies.
Weather and War.
The early Israelites were polytheistic and worshipped Yahweh alongside a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal. In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated and El-linked epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone.
Some scholars believe El and Yahweh were always conflated. Characteristics of other gods, such as Asherah and Baal, were also selectively "absorbed" in conceptions of Yahweh.
Over time the existence of other gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed the creator deity and sole divinity to be worshipped.
During the Second Temple period, speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as taboo, and Jews instead began to substitute other words, primarily adonai (אֲדֹנָי, "my Lords"). In Roman times, following the Siege of Jerusalem and destruction of its Temple, in 70 CE, the original pronunciation of the god's name was forgotten entirely.
Yahweh is also invoked in Papyrus Amherst 63, and in Jewish or Jewish-influenced Greco-Egyptian magical texts from the 1st to 5th century CE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh