I'm afraid you just don't understand the nature of evidence, Agnos. Evidence is not just the data you are willing to accept, but incorporates all available material, including the bible.

You mention Akhenaten who introduced his people to the worship of Aken, but the best estimate for this practice is around the middle of the thirteenth century BCE. Moses lived and Israel flourished a century before this, and the record of Job was written two centuries before that. You are simply grasping at straws.

Around 2000 BCE, Abraham brought the knowledge of his monotheistic belief to the Pharaohs
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
-- Genesis 12:14-20

It is not unreasonable to suggest that the reverse of what you claim, is true - Ra was the invention, and was a by-product of the Pharaoh's encounters with Yahweh.

Just caught this before my 15 minutes expired:

Absolutely. All the way back to Adam and Eve.

Cheers,
enegue

I should have seen that coming, but you got me. “All the way back to Adam and Eve.” So, Christianity, rather than being the upstart religion usurped from the Jews, presumes an unbroken lineage back to the first humans. Well done, Enegue.

I had thought Christianity began after Christ’s death. Apparently Christianity began with Genesis, at the moment of the creation of time, or perhaps five days later.

Set the wayback machine, Sherman, we’re rewriting history today.

— Wynn

Right, but the academic community has agreed that the God Aten was the first attempt at monotheism ever in the history of mankind. So excuse me, but I prefer to believe them. That is the informed consensus.

enegue, I could not find a source that backs you up. Please feel free to point me to such sources. Here is the definition of monotheism"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheism

Read the whole article please.

It appears the Jews had other tribal Gods too. Anyway, all reputable sources I could find speak of Akhenaten as the first attempt at generalized monotheism in the history of man. This is the terminology they are using, and I have to study this further. It's kind of a grey area. You could be right, I could be right. This requires more research. I only used what is available from reputable sources anyway, and they do say this about that Aten God-Dude. We'll continue later.

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enegue, I figured it out. I regret to say it, but you were clearly incorrect in stating the early Jews were monotheistic. When Abraham came from Mesopotamia, and the land of Ur, the Jews had many tribal deities. You can find this proof all over the Old Testament anyway, it's full of examples of the Jews worshipping all kinds of other "pagan" Gods. That practice and tendency continued throughout that era. Yahweh was just one entity out of many and became prevalent through the efforts of some and as a result, became homogenized into one entity later. But Yahweh is actually a conglomeration of older pagan deities. Even the Bible itself, in Hosea 2:16, attests that the Jews were calling Yahweh Baal, and they were praying to Baal. Yahweh is a pagan deity that was coalesced from and ended up incorporating other earlier entities like the Sumerian God Enki, and the Akkadian God Ea. Just like the all-encompassing God Marduk did for the Babylonians. It was simply an age old practice to do that.

Out of all the research I have done, this below is a most excellent and scholarly site, you can study the information in depth there.

http://personalpages.tds.net/~theseeker/Yahweh.htm

Man, these time limits suck... Enegue, I forgot, here's another tidbit. If they were monotheistic, as you falsely claim, then why were they calling Yahweh Elohim, which is plural, as in many gods? Really, study that site, the information there blows your assumptions out of the water. That should make you rethink your "beliefs".

And BTW, "I am that I am" is not really what you think, but a mistranslation. It's all there, read.