Ok, so lets see. We have many ancient advanced civilizations that believed in many Gods, right. Greeks, Egyptians, Azetcks, Mayans, Incans, Romans, etc..etc. Now these were all very powerful, very advanced intelligent civilizations. They were genius's of there time, and invented many of the priniciples of science that we still use to day. (remember, they were polytheist) Now, we have some people, jews, who really didn't accomplish anything as civilization, well they were barely one, mainly just a group of people who lived in a certain part of the desert. They didn't really accomplish anything, nor made any impacts on human history, besides, you know monotheism. Now, my question to you is why would we believe a civilization who didn't really impact anything, nor intelligent at all, oppose to those of the great ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Azetcks, Mayans, etc..etc.. Seems like we followed a dumb crowd, in my opinion.
Zoroastrians follow monotheism, and they had the Persian Empire. Almost destroyed the Greeks except they had a little bit of bad luck crossing the Aegean
it was also that the greeks outsmarted them. sailed out of hiding spots and rammed their boats into the persians. but look at it the other way. almost all those polytheistic religiuons dont exist. no one in the world believes in Zeus. and the muslims made huge science discoveries. they made the first medical encyclopedia, discovered blood circulation, learned the world was round long before columbus.christians were too busy trying to escape the romans wrath so they diddnt have time to develope things, and right wen the romans died, the dark ages came and everyone in europe forgot to read! the jews were too busy kicking the cannonites out of their land and having every other nation pretty much to ever exist try to either enslave them or exterminate them. they are too busy trying to survive
Well, that was a pretty ignorant post. "They didn't make great monuments so everything they said was worthless." You're basis for deciding the truth of a religion is pretty lame, dude. Oh, and just for clarification, the Greeks knew the earth was round long before the Muslims did.
I'm a bend the this discussion a different way. The one god of the jews is refered to as many different names. It was a sin to use Gods real name. The jews realized that all those Gods doing all that stuff was just really one EXTRA busy GOD. you don't need a fertility god and a fire god when your GOD can make fire and life.
Yeah, that was the second wave though (if I am not mistaken). The Persians would have taken Athens but the runner from Marathon outran the fleet and was able to warn the city...The second campagn was a disaster and the greeks did outwit them quite a number of times... But this is neither here nor there....
isn't the God in the Old Testament sometimes referred to as "Elohim"? And isn't "Elohim" a plural word? huh? edited because we should never make the mistake of confusing the Christian old testament with Judaism.
Its just because the monotheisms starting with Judaism put a hold on knowledge of the previous civilizations of Sumer, and Egypt. They worshipped one alien god, behind the guise of the all-god preached by the humane annunaki alien Enki. The god that made the universe (aten) vs the gods (elohim) that made us. Its evident in the first 2 chapters of gensis. The polytheisms is what were dominant in ancient egypt and sumer, worhsip of many aliens with different attributes and attitudes towards humanity. That could help in different ways, then through time they evolved and changed and characteristics were swapped to meet the times, but you can see http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/names_gods.html here. This explains the booms in architecture and sciences and everything hidden within the Jewish priesthood. Yet thanks to them they brought it out of Egpyt, and all the world would still be a corrupt battle of United Egypt. Causing no Western Civ evolution. We would still have kings and Pharoahs, so how can you say Jews did nothing. They also carried the occult sciences, from Egypt, then got them stolen and corrupted by the Babylonians during the captivity. They only had them as relics of the past, and not for use because Yahweh/Allah/enlil forbid personal knowledge. Which all ends up in the same result anyway.
the question of one or many, is also speculation as to the nature and origen, and like all such speculation, begins and ends therein. whatever the truith might be, it is under no obligation to resemble what anyone thinks they know about it, no matter how popular of otherwise a given perception might be. polytheists and montheists are still two people arguing about religeon and still therefore BOTH wrong. how can this be? i don't know. but i do know that NO ONE knows either. one POSSIBILITY is that whatever that which gets refered to as god, is something so strainge, that the question of one or many becomes meaningless. the mystery of that which is greater then ourselves is a mystry intrinsicly. if all things are effemeral how can a mystery not be as well? perhaps this is the one exception. =^^= .../\...
