RE: One God versus many
November 30, 2021 at 7:48 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2021 at 7:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(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.
Uncontested authority, plain and simple. That's the thrust of the ot. Why, according to post exilic compilers, they suffered. As it's the thrust of the nt - declaring a new king of men in the immanent holy war. In both cases, some of the stories were bolted together from sources that wouldn't have believed their narrative or theological contents - but a good story is a useful vehicle no matter who came up with it - as the manufacture of abrahamic religions demonstrates handily.
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