Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
Many people find polytheism strange, I don't, I find it refreshing, what I don't understand is why so many people gave it up for montheism?
Monotheism came first. God (one) created the universe. All the other so called gods are actually fallen angels and I must advise against any contact with them. They are happy to decieve and make you join them in misery. We have free choice though, which God gave us and if we want to we can choose evil. It's worth remembering that that truth that we seek, especially us autistic people, is a person - God. There is only one truth and only one reality.
Why not give monotheism a chance? Isn't it infinitely more exiciting to know that one loving Father created all of creation. You as an individual were created for a purpose only you can fulfill. You are unique and important in His eyes. He loves you more than you can imagine and is always with you. If you want to know Him, he will let you and you will never regret it as the happiness of knowing Him is better than anything the world can offer. If you spend some time in the quiet and ask Him to let you know His presence He will do.... most often very gently as a feeling of intense well being and love. Aren't we made for truth? why seek the lies of the fallen angels. Lies are boring.
Monotheism came first.
The earliest known example of monotheism was introduced by the Pharaoh Akhenaten in ancient Egypt, around 1350 BCE, as far as we know archaeologically and historically at least. All known records of monotheism occur after the 1300’s BCE, seemingly around 600 BCE with Zoroastrianism, and 200 BCE with Judaism.
God (one) created the universe.
I take it you have not studied the book of Genesis so much, given that God said, "Let there be light" and so on and so forth with the expanse, water and land etcetera, and then further more ~ God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera; and the divine council collectively referred to as being the ‘Elohim’, which is normally transliterated out in English as being ‘The Lord God’.
Also, the Greek texts use at minimum masculine, feminine and androgyne grammar, so Genesis can be transliterated so that God and the Goddess created the heavens and the earth, and as such the Goddess said, "Let there be light" and [on account of God] there was light, and so on ~ which of course goes a long way for those who have had it up to the back teeth with secular and or religious misogyny.
Further more, in Psalm 82, it states, (1) God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgement among the “gods”. So monotheism did not come first in the bible either, with the book of Psalms having been compiled in the last thousand years preceding up to the Christ event, and the last text having been composed about 500 years before hand.
All the other so called gods are actually fallen angels and I must advise against any contact with them.
The pantheon of the Gods became as far as humans account for them as being the hierarchy of the Angels, all of whom did not side with Lucifer in the rebellion, and most polytheists treat their pantheon of gods as being representatives of nature and as such the spirit of life (i.e., God) and practice in ceremonies and make offering just as Christians and Catholic do with Easter, which was originally and still is a polytheistic tradition also.
take it you have not studied the book of Genesis so much, given that God said, "Let there be light" and so on and so forth with the expanse, water and land etcetera, and then further more ~ God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness . . . ” in that the God of gods El was talking with his divine consort the Goddess Ashera; and the divine council collectively referred to as being the ‘Elohim’, which is normally transliterated out in English as being ‘The Lord God’.
This is blasphemy - there is no Ashera or consort that's demonic. I don't where you got that but it is not in Genesis and is not even vaguely Christian. There are no goddesses.
God is a blessed Trinity, one God, three persons - the Holy spirit, God the Father and God the Son. The Trinity is a mystery as God's ways are above our ways.
Elohim was a Jewish word for God - Hebrew and it means Supreme Mighty One.
That earliest known example is incorrect, man did not invent monotheism. It just is. Man invented polythesism because his brain could not cope with the idea that one God did all this. God created the Pharoh you mention, along with every single male and female that has ever existed.
Nothing you say is vaguely Christian and is all a lie from the pit of hell. But you are free to believe that if you wish. I will pray for you - because reality is so much better! God is infinitely glorious and there are hundreds of references to Him being one in the Bible, both new and old testament. I'm not going to argue with you because you though. If you ever want to know the truth ask the Almighty God to help you... He holds you in being and is your Father and He's always listening.
May God bless you
Obviously people can argue which single perspective of a multi-faceted subject is the right one, but I just discuss them as they are, whereas the polytheistic elements remain as they are ~ whilst keeping in mind that monotheism and polytheism are ways of viewing things, neither of which exclude or suggest anything other than there being one true god as being the father of all.
Have a good one, and stay safely.
Obviously people can argue which single perspective of a multi-faceted subject is the right one, but I just discuss them as they are, whereas the polytheistic elements remain as they are ~ whilst keeping in mind that monotheism and polytheism are ways of viewing things, neither of which exclude or suggest anything other than there being one true god as being the father of all.
Have a good one, and stay safely.