Monotheism

MONOTHEISM'S THREE-PRONGED PROBLEM Monotheism also contains another essential problem--one with implications for the future. The Western God of the Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition illustrates the core difficulty in monotheism, a philosophical conundrum that has been called the theodicy problem. It is formulated as a trilemma and can best be illustrated this way: Among the following

rebellious individualism, they all understood they had to act as one mind and purpose (Godfrey). This unified the gods massively and eventually one god became almighty. All the other gods became demoted to below “god-level” in the hierarchy of society. Monotheism became the common religion.     The history of religions has changed, but why? Some argue because it gives the ruler more power over the people and some argue that as society advances, the thoughts and religion should as well. Both would be valid

In contrast, the old and modern day Christians believe in monotheism, which according to Merriam-Webster is “the doctrine or belief that there is but one God”. Although, “The Hymm to the Aten” is only speaking about one god Aten, the people of Ancient Egypt believed in thousands of gods, which contrasts the most

Spiritual Truths which can be applied to anyone at anytime[2]. For this reason, I think that it will be hard to say what each of these types of Hinduism are and instead focus on arguments for and against the types of theism e.g. monotheism, henotheism and polytheism. Monotheism is the belief in one god and is very common in European religions such as Christianity. If Hinduism were to be monotheistic, I think that the God/Goddess that they would worship would be Brahma (the creator); Vishnu (the preserver)

reading Euthyphro and analyzing the contradiction that Socrates poses I believe that monotheism does solve the stated contradiction. With a belief in a god(s) what is holy and unholy is not based on the action we committed but is rooted in what the god(s) find holy and unholy. With polytheism, any effort to be entirely holy will be fruitless as there will always be a god(s) that views your actions as unholy. With monotheism, there is only one god to decide what is holy and unholy and is easy to judge any

“heretic” pharaoh due to the radical changes he made during his reign as an Egyptian pharaoh. The people of Egypt had been worshipping many different deities all the time and Akhenaten was the first pharaoh to break the tradition by introducing monotheism, which was the worship to only one god. Other than reforming the religious beliefs, he also introduced arts of different styles to worship the Sun god, Aten. The changes made during Akhenaten’s reign had no doubt brought some effects to the lives

gods. After death, Eastern religions believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is the rebirth and spirit-matter distinction and is the liberation cycle of existence. In western religions only one God is worshipped. Western religions believe in monotheism. Monotheism is the belief of one God and it is the belief that only God has created the world and everything in it. After death, western religions believe in heaven. A similarity of eastern religions and western religions are that they both believe in

practiced polytheism not only worshiping the Sun Disk God, but around 12 other gods with roles such as fertility, the sky, the Nile River, childbirth, etc. With Egypt practicing monotheisms the temple priest have lost control of any political or religious gain they once held. This will be the first time Egypt practices monotheism. In making this change Amenhotep IV became known as Akhenaten, “Shining Spirit of Aten”. Becoming Akhenaten was not the only changes reflected from his reign as pharaoh.

The sub-categories for these then will be as follows. For theism, there are numerous sub-categories: polytheism, pantheism, monotheism, and finite godism . There are possibly more than these but these are the most dominant. In all these beliefs, there is the existence of a God. It may refer to the existence of only one God (like that of monotheism and pantheism) or many (like that of polytheism and finite godism) – simply put, there is a common denominator in these beliefs and this is

when someone disagrees, they should stay true to their beliefs and not cause violence to rise when someone disagrees with their views. Monotheistic people often don’t act up on the violence thread in their religion although it is often called by monotheism cultivated intolerance. Since monotheist believe that there is only one way to worship and acknowledge God, they are very closed minded. Although there are no rights in the monotheistic system, dissents, heresy, error, the odd view, blasphemy, should