Monotheism

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 known as documentary hypothesis which is considered the basis of all biblical scholarship and was first suggested by Julius Wellhausen. Documentary hypothesis has proven that there is more than one author to the first five books of the Old Testament.…

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…

The most essential part of every religion is understanding who their God is. Buddhists worship Buddha, Muslim’s believe in Allah, and Christian believe in god. The common view point of Christians is the trinitarian view. The trinitarian view point originated from the Christian creeds. The Creeds were formed and adapted through Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism. Gnosticism is a type of Christianity. At this point monotheism was part of the culture, and Christian still believed in three Gods: God,…

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?…

Introduction According to Schwadel and Hardy (2021), religion shapes the way people understand the world and their place in it. From monotheism, the belief in one God, to polytheism, the belief in multiple gods, each system offers unique perspectives and practices. As one learns more about these views, one might wonder which one is better and how they explain why there is evil in the world. I am also going to implement the ideas of people like Thomas Paine, which can help clarify how humanism…

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…

There are atheists, sinners, and offenders in God's creation simply because nobody is perfect like what we have stated above. Offenders and sinners are everywhere – including us, because we are not perfect. Offenders and sinners are those who violate the natural law, God’s law, as well as the rules and regulations prescribed by the society. There is no learning if we all know what to do. We will not learn from our mistakes, if we, people, do not offend or sinned from other people or even God.…