[Avodah] Was Lavan daft, dense or what?

[Arie Folger]

On Monday, 19. November 2007 13.20:37 Zev Sero wrote:
> No, I'm saying that there was nothing in the revelation that ought to
> have made him reexamine his pagan beliefs.  All the revelation showed
> him was that there is at least one god, which he already believed.
> Why exactly should he have deduced from the confirmed existence of one
> God that all other gods are false?

I guess I implicitly assume that revelation is so overwhelmingly powerful and 
unequaled, that one would instantly distinguish that from other experiences 
and feel the truthfulness of that particular experience, intuitively leading 
to dismissing all other experiences, hence making monotheism obvious.

Note: Considering that G"d's statement to Lavan was quite clear, I do not 
consider it different from prophecy, but this point is just my hunch, not 
based on any sources besides chumash.
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Arie Folger
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