Do jews and christians believe the other gods like the ones people used to practice idolotry for exist at all or is...

Do jews and christians believe the other gods like the ones people used to practice idolotry for exist at all or is their stance that these gods are just fictional? I know they don't believe these gods are equal to their own god, but I don't know if that's because they're nonexistent or just because they're lesser spiritual entities.

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Yes demons exist.

Somehow all other religions on Earth are wrong but theirs is totes real.

The stance is generally that all polytheistic deities are completely fictional and that any monotheistic deities that aren't Yahweh, are either fictional or a false re-imagining of the one true god.

Yam and Mot were deities worshipped in the larger caanite area surrounding Israel by various non-israelite tribes. Yam was a sea god, Mot his buddy the god of death. They were two main evil gods in canaanite polytheistic religions.

Now what happens in the Genesis creation story that the God of Israel divides Yam, the sea (yes it literally says yam in hebrew in genesis 1) under the earth and above the firmanent, making land and creatures possible. Also Yams pets, the levathians seems to be pre-existent to creation in some jewish texts.Mot is also mentioned in the bible.

Of course, nowhere in the hebrew texts is it said these are gods, nor are they given any respect. But if one speaks purely textual and not theologically, it presents a way in which the jews incorporated two very powerful (and evil) gods of their neighbours in their own religion. Namely, that the God of Israel defeated them at the beginning of creation (one could assume ordened creation would not be possible with two chaotic gods).

Theologically, of course there is only one God in judaism and christianity.

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They're idols, not gods. They are impotent.

As far as I can tell, Catholicism allows for the possibility that they actually existed in some form. Of course, they're not, strictly speaking, actually gods. What they are, or might have been, is up for debate. They could possibly have been fallen angels, such as demons. They could be the Nephilim, the half-angel hybrids spoken of in Genesis. They could be other entities created by God that rebelled against him, even though their creation is not mentioned in the Bible. Remember, the creation of the angels isn't mentioned in the Bible, either.

There's some disagreement, but their existence isn't strictly denied. It's absolutely forbidden to worship them, however. Only God should be worshiped. This is the mistake the Israelites make more than once.