text: hence you are told to accept one god, is insinuating  that there are many gods? so is that saying there are many gods ,so then there must be a civilization of gods that again proves my alien theory about gods    ot that thou shalt not have no other gods before me. and, jesus said the only way to the father is through the son. i've heard that when judaism originated, the israelites regarded their god as their national god and recognised that other peoples had their own gods, but i'm not sure how true that is. i do find it interesting that in genesis, when adam and eve eat the forbidden fruit, god says, "now he has become like one of us!" so it's possible that the jews originally thought of pagan gods as real rivals to their god, rather than non-existent beings.