Let’s not digress this thread into another debate about the age of the earth or evolution vs creation.
I’d really like this thread to be a discussion about what sort of religion most of mankind originally held in ancient times -— monotheism or polytheism.
The Ancient Hebrew texts and the Masorah tell us plainly that people began calling other things “god” during the time of Nimrod.
Nimrod tried to get people to worship him and ascribe their happiness to his government.
The first commie.
It only followed that soon people would fall from the original monotheism and begin to worship a multitude of gods as was convenient.
Sorry for digressing.
I’d really like this thread to be a discussion about what sort of religion most of mankind originally held in ancient times -— monotheism or polytheism.
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impossible.
There’s no way to debate it or to prove one way or the other. It was(and is) as constant struggle between one religion or another. There are even struggles between two different monotheistic religions...even between two related sects of the same branch of the same monotheistic religion.
The endless struggle began the day that god created eve. Maybe before then.
I’d really like this thread to be a discussion about what sort of religion most of mankind originally held in ancient times -— monotheism or polytheism.
I would think that it would be clear, absolutely so, that when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden that they didn't think in terms of "religion" but in terms of "reality" and they knew that there was only one God, "in reality".
It was later on as men rebelled against God and also as their rebellions produced lies and "religions" to compete against the "reality" of the One God, that you have all the resulting confusion in the world.
As the Bible says, Satan is the father of lies and it's in his own interest to tell all sorts of lies about "diety" and to invent competing "religions"... :-)