[Quranic Reflection]: The Aten.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Aten’ refers to the disc of the sun (deified), it doesn’t mean ‘the light of heaven and earth’ in any sense.

And, considering  what happened to Atenism after the pharaoh’s death, he pretty clearly backed the wrong horse.

Boru

Aten is the light, see here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten

Aten was considered to have been everywhere and intangible as Aten was the sunlight and energy in the world. Therefore, he did not have physical representations that other traditional ancient Egyptian gods had, instead represented via the sun disc and reaching rays of light.

BTW Muslims too do not "draw God" or "represent him" through Anthropomorphism.

The same description of Allah being everywhere is present in Islam too.

If Atenism worshipped the same God as Islam, why did Atenism fail so spectacularly? It seems that God could have sent the Egyptians a prophet and gotten the ball rolling eighteen centuries earlier.

Boru