Monotheism

when Aye tried to save her, he was murdered and Tey became the queen. Horemheb married her and took credit for all of the reigns in that dynasty. Aye had the motive to kill Akhenaten. Aye killed Akhenaten because he was trying to convert Egypt to monotheism. Horemheb became allies with aye, and attacked King Tut, who bled to death. Horemheb wanted to be the Pharaoh of Egypt, but Aye was the next in line. Though,…

Top 10 Craziest Facts About the Origins of Christianity (That They Don’t Teach You In Sunday School) Christianity is currently the world’s largest religion, with around 2.4 billion followers worldwide (LINK 1). Those of us who were raised Christian, or in predominantly Christian countries like America (where 83% of the population identifies as Christian and almost all of the U.S. Presidents have been Christian), are pretty well versed in the basics of Christianity’s history and tenets: Egypt,…

his reign without any precedent or foreshadowing. However, it has also been speculated that he may have drawn his ideas from the rule of his father. Akhenaten, with his revolutionary focus on Aten and being the first Egyptian king to truly embrace monotheism coupled with henotheism, revealed the importance of the sun cults in the Egyptian world. Akhenaten was raised in the court of his father, and as such was constantly exposed to and heavily influenced by Amenhotep’s progression towards a…

that I can support. Based upon some of my research and arguments that were presented in “The Word Became Flesh.” Thomas Streilferat, stated that, “Belief in one God is so deeply rooted in Judaism that this would be blasphemy of a departure from monotheism would have been a psychological impossibility. He surmised that the supplanting of erroneous doctrine began to creep into the church by men who refused to be led by the inspiration of God. (1 Tim 3:16) This caused them to rely on their own…

Arius is one of the most pivotal figures in the development of Christian thought. This is quite a statement because Arius is most definitely a heretic. However, this does not mean he was a bad person by any means. Instead, it means that his theology does not line up with what is now considered to be orthodoxy. Still, the reason this orthodoxy was established was due to the Council of Nicaea in 325, which occurred to establish if Arius, and the other members of the Unbegotten Father line of…

Religion Daddy where are you? Please forgive us. These are words that are coming from around four billion Monotheistic people around the world every day. They ask for his forgiveness and kindness in their lives, but the question is where dad is? Why he is not doing anything about all these wars, poverties, hunger, and genocides that gripped human society. Where was him when over 60 million people died in World War Two. What was more important than Darfur genocide, and what does stop him to…

“theism,” we are able to understand and break down the basis for the two main types of religion; monotheistic and polytheistic. When a person does not believe in a god or gods, they are atheistic; one category of atheism is monistic religions. Monotheism is the belief in only one god. Monotheistic religions, such as Christianity, believe that God created man and that man became somehow separated from the likeness of God through sin or wrongdoing. Therefore, God created a way for man’s…

The manifestation of a deity in today’s western world is associated with an image with a human form but Egyptians associated gods with an assorted variety of animals as Horus was with a falcon and Wadjet with the snake. The idea of multiplicity of approaches was common as some deity’s had two animals representing them such as Thoth who can be seen as an Ibis and Baboon. Some god/goddesses had two forms to express aspects of their nature, angry Sekhmet turns into a lion but when mildly angry,…

all three religions believe in the oneness of God, “The affirmation of the oneness of God by Christians is sometimes misunderstood, because some Christians believe that the one God is triune (the Holy Trinity). However, this is not a denial of monotheism but an affirmation of the complexity of the Divine Being”. (Los Angeles Chinese Learning Center). All three religions believe in one God. In Qur’an, Allah says: “He, Allah, is one. Allah is he on whom all…

The Great Hymn to Aten was created by Egyptian king Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt from 1369 BCE to 1353 BCE, and it provided Egypt with an outlook at monotheism which means worshipping one god, Aten, instead of the past which focused more on polytheism which focused on the worship of many different gods. The purpose of the Great Hymn was to praise and worship the sun god Aten for being the creator by creating the world and providing humans with special needs like food and water. Egyptians…