How did people come to believe in the divine, before there was a book to tell them about it? (Or before people started telling the tales that ended up in the book.)
I don't want to ask how humanity came to believe in gods.... I just want to ask, given that other people already believed in something, how did they keep on believing without a book to sustain their belief?
Oral tradition? How easy would that be to corrupt?
And where did such beliefs come from, when somewhere else some account of a god appears?
If the christian god already existed, before christ, how come people didn't believe in it? Oh, they sort of did... further back... If Yahweh already existed before the hebrew people, before Abraham, before Moses wrote anything, why did people throughout the world believe in other gods?
If Allah already existed before Mohammad, how come people believed in other gods elsewhere?
If Buddha is right, why did people accept other worldviews, before?
Well, I think you can see where this is going....
Where did such knowledge of other gods come from, if only one of them is right?
bonus: which one is right, if any?
I don't want to ask how humanity came to believe in gods.... I just want to ask, given that other people already believed in something, how did they keep on believing without a book to sustain their belief?
Oral tradition? How easy would that be to corrupt?
And where did such beliefs come from, when somewhere else some account of a god appears?
If the christian god already existed, before christ, how come people didn't believe in it? Oh, they sort of did... further back... If Yahweh already existed before the hebrew people, before Abraham, before Moses wrote anything, why did people throughout the world believe in other gods?
If Allah already existed before Mohammad, how come people believed in other gods elsewhere?
If Buddha is right, why did people accept other worldviews, before?
Well, I think you can see where this is going....
Where did such knowledge of other gods come from, if only one of them is right?
bonus: which one is right, if any?
