Genesis and the Religion of Primitive Man (Was monotheism the original religion of primitive man?)

Xenos ^ | James L. Graham

[BigCinBigD]

Cylons fault.

[FrdmLvr]

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[HangnJudge]

From whence did Cain’s wife come?

[SeekAndFind]

For explanation regarding Cain’s wife, See here :

http://www.gotquestions.org/Cains-wife.html

Here :

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c004.html

and Here :

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/who-was-cains-wife

[mountainlion]

Can science be believed? Global warming zealots are as closed minded as Darwinists

[cripplecreek]

Outside of the big 3 monotheist religions it looks to me like many religions have lesser gods under a single creator god.

[vladimir998]

From Cain’s mother and father.

[mamelukesabre]

French sociologist, writing in the 1920s and 1930s claimed that the primitive mind was “pre logical”, i.e., unable to reason from premise to conclusion and without any concept of cause and effect
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there’s plenty of “modern” humans that fit this description.

[Just mythoughts]

Why are there two different days and accounts Written regarding the creation/formation of the flesh body?

[SeekAndFind]

There really are two MAIN competing thoughts when it comes to man’s religion.

One is ORIGINAL MONOTHEISM. Anthropologists who gravitate to this point of view believe that mankind everywhere originally believed in ONE GOD but slowly gravitated towards the polytheistic form as Shamanism took over and charismatic figures became god-like, causing people to follow and worship them. This eventually led to agnosticism and atheism.

The other major competing thought is EVOLVED MONOTHEISM. This school of thought believes that monotheism WAS NOT the original state of mankind’s religious belief. It slowly EVOLVED MUCH LATER.

This particular article supports the former ( ORIGINAL MONOTHEISM ). I am sharing this for discussion purposes so that you can share YOUR point of views ( which point of view do you support more and why ).

Kindly keep smart-alec and wise-guy one liner remarks to a minimum.

[HangnJudge]

From Cain’s mother and father.

Would seem implausible...
The know rate of genetic mutations
generating various traits and diseases
would be difficult to explain over a
less than 10,000 year interval

Would seem more likely that the Genesis story
is a data point in a continuum,
instead of a origination point of an entire species

Call me a skeptic (along with C.S. Lewis and Tolkien)
that the Genesis story might be better described as
“True Myth”

http://protestantism.suite101.com/article.cfm/biblical_creation_is_a_true_myth

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“The know rate of genetic mutations
generating various traits and diseases
would be difficult to explain over a
less than 10,000 year interval”

With God anything is possible.

[SentForth5]

According to the King James Bible, Cain’s wife came from a land called Nod, most probably what today is called outer Mongolia.
On the 6th day God created all the races...MANKIND.
On the 7th day God rested for the sake of His creation.
AFTER that on the 8th day God created Adam and Eve...hence, Israel.
There were 2000 years worth of people on thw earth BEFORE Adam and Eve ever made the scene. Oh, and Adam WAS NOT cain’s son.
To understand these things is to possess THE KEY OF DAVID.

[Uri’el-2012]

Outside of the big 3 monotheist religions it looks to me like many religions have lesser gods under a single creator god.

There is only one G-d.

He has given us His NAME; His NAME is YHvH.

YHvH has provided us His Salvation
to all who will call on His NAME

Allah is not YHvH.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[HangnJudge]

There were 2000 years worth of people on the earth
BEFORE Adam and Eve ever made the scene.

That would seem to be a very long “Day”

[SentForth5]

2Peter
ch 3 v. 8

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

[HangnJudge]

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

OK, that helps somewhat

[SentForth5]

#15...Beautiful. YHVH is our life Yah’shua is our light!
And so we pray.

[cripplecreek]

Personally I tend to think monotheism came first. As I said, most religions (outside the big 3) tend to have one creator God and many underling Gods.

It just seems to me that it would be most natural to believe in one creator God at first and then add others as time went on.

We could also look at it in our Christian context of God along with angels and demons. What we consider to be angels and demons could easily be seen a lesser Gods by someone with no knowledge of Christianity.