That's not polytheism.
Polytheism posits that there are individual gods that each garner different elements of reality, and manifest in only those specific elements.
That's not polytheism.
Polytheism posits that there are individual gods that each garner different elements of reality, and manifest in only those specific elements.
Sort of like God for good and Satan for evil?
That would make at least two deities, ergo polytheism.
I'm not stating anything radical, here. Arianism, which the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches have been arguing against for at least 17 centuries and Unitarianism both subscribe to a single being-ed(?) God.
Christianity is to religion as English is to languages or Microsoft is to software companies. It's able to take aspects of local customs, deities, vernacular, properties and add them in effortlessly. Sort of like allowing priests in Africa to marry while maintaining a policy of celibacy elsewhere or using a Roman holiday or a Persian God's birthday, December 25, as the birthdate of the Messiah.