(November 29, 2021 at 7:48 pm)T.J. Wrote: I always found it a little interesting that, to my knowledge anyway, the only religions that cite to there being only one god is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All the others to my knowledge cite there being multiple gods all with different purposes. I wonder what came to the authors of the above mention religions to decide it made more sense for one god to exist instead of many?
Discuss.
Your premise is flawed.
The great heretic of ancient Egyptian history Ahkenaten introduced monotheism to Egypt in the 14th century bce. This was in the form of the sun god, Aten. All of his works were destroyed by his son, Tutankhamun, and all of the old gods were restored. The Egyptian religion lasted for another 1000 years. The Torah was not written for at least 500 years after Ahkenaten.
Hinduism is around 3500 years old. It has 30 million, 15 million, a few dozen, or one god, depending to whom one speaks. There are Hindus who claim there is only one god, that all of the other gods are simply aspects of the one god. I once ran across a man who asserted that he was both an atheist and a Hindu.
Zoroastrianism was first written about in the 6th century bce. It is still around. This religion asserts there is one creator god, Ahura Mazda.
All of the religions mentioned above are far more complex than I've stated. However, the basic claim is correct. That there were monotheistic religions long before Judaism and the two other Abrahamic faiths, Christianity and Islam
