Monotheism

Religion started as an awareness of oneself and then the awareness of something more than us and probably began at the time when humans began to cultivate in the Paleolithic era between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago. Religion has occurred in each segment of art in different cultures. As history evolved, culture evolved from cave paintings to elaborate sculptures and architecture. Polytheism I believe started as an earlier practice than monotheism since the earliest cultures like the Egyptian culture is associated with god and goddess and the Early Christian, Jewish and Byzantine cultures are associated with one god and were also established in later years. Polytheism and monotheism has been discussed for centuries throughout history in the world…

The study of the awareness of monotheism was the study of Israelites who went from a henotheistic culture to a monotheistic culture. The Israelites were a henotheistic culture from the Exodus of the people from Egypt and gradually changed over their history and settlement in the land of Canaan to become a monotheistic nation at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 586 B.C.E. During this time as well as the exile of the Jews, the Pentateuch was written as four documents. This is…

Monotheism is the belief in only one god. For many, there is a lot of different "gods". However, I choice to believe in the one true God. Some people have asked me, "Why do you believe in God? He doesn 't exists!" My response to them is quite simple. "He created you and me. He created nature and the beauty all around us." They then proceed to ask "How do you believe in a God that allows pain and suffering?" I believe in God because he gave me life. That 's why I know I can out my faith in God…

Judaism and Hinduism are both some of the world’s oldest religions. Followers of these faiths pay tribute to their religion in different ways while each faith plays majors roles in the lives of their followers. Although Hinduism consumes an incredibly large amount of the population in comparison to Judaism, Judaism is both a religion and culture whereas Hinduism remains strictly a religion. Judaism and Hinduism are more different than alike because of the different beliefs they have, the…

passage in Second Isaiah, composed during or after the Exile, which is sometimes cited as a Jewish rebuke to the Zoroastrian idea of a dualistic God: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7) This passage, which is a major source for Jewish speculation on the source of good and evil in the world, denies the Zoroastrian idea of a God who is the source only of "good" and favorable things. The philosophical minds of the…

One thing that connects all of us humans in some way is religion. For some it’s a way of life for others it’s just a norm they follow. But we never ask ourselves how our religion got to be at the point where it is now. Roughly 3.8 billion people, over 50% of the world population believes in the Abrahamic idea of God. So how did we go from worshipping many gods thousands of years ago to just worshipping one all knowing God, and what kind of repercussions has that brought upon the world?…

The goal of this paper is that of discussing the interconnections between some elements of Schelling’s Berlin lectures on mythology and revelation. In particular, I want to focus on Schelling’s reading of monotheism as exposed over the course of the first six lectures of the series concerning mythology. In Schelling’s own words, monotheism is ‹‹the first presupposition of the theogonical process››, and is ‹‹posited together with human essence itself››. Moreover, this concept ‹‹contains the law…

Monotheism is a belief that there is one Supreme Being, rather than many. As with every religion, it had implications for the human who fall into the arms of God, both in sacred, and secular ways. Not only the monotheist religions were able to convince people, but also abled those people to form closely knitted communities according to their likeness. Such communities, gathered on the basis of faith, would make efforts to live up to the God’s laws, and attempt to convince others to follow the…

Comparison of Polytheism and Monotheism of Different Groups Religion is a cultural system that designates world views and beliefs, as well as behaviors. Polytheist in the Middle East and Monotheists in the Middle East and India use their gods as a way to guide them through life. The way all the groups worship their gods are similar, and usually, all gods expect their followers to be obedient, whether there are several gods, polytheism, or one, monotheism. After establishing their first complex…

saw the world, and how the made life decisions. Abraham is considered to be the founder of the Hebrews. The Hebrews were considered to be amongst the poorest, but most influential. They followed the Bible, also known as the “Torah” to the Hebrews. Hebrews also followed a few major concepts such as practicing monotheism, the ten commandments, and they have a covenant with God, therefore they are considered to be the “Chosen People”. Although some civilizations were able to be have a homeland…