Where did the polytheistic pagan cults come from if everyone on Noah's ark worshipped God?

Question

Because Noah was chosen to build the ark, and have his family on it (because they were the only righteous people on Earth at the time), shouldn't all of their decendents have been monotheists as well? Where did all of the polytheistic pagan religions (those which the Jews were forbidden to assimilate with) come from?

bluefirewitch, I apologize for my usage of the word "cult". I didn't intend for it to sound like the cults we have come to know (where group leaders brainwash young college students and end up committing mass suicide), but meant it to mean the pagan fertility cults (as they're called) that were around Canaan surrounding the Israelites of the Hebrew Bible.

Answer 1

Maimonides explained this best.

at first people worshiped G-d and only G-d. Then people said that the sun and the moon were power full creations of G-d and should also be given respect. After a while people kept adding on to things to be worshiped until people forgot that G-d was the original source.

Answer 2

First, your assertion that "because they were the only righteous people on Earth at the time" is incorrect. Nowhere does it say that Noah's *family* was righteous.

In Genesis 6, after talking about how evil mankind had become, it says

(Genesis 6:8 KJV) But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

(Genesis 6:9 KJV) These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Nowhere does it say that his family found grace, or was just, or was perfect, or walked with god.

So, your first assumption is incorrect.

Secondly, a righteous man, or woman for that matter, *can* sin. Therefore, even *if* all of Noah's family was righteous, that does not mean they never sinned.

Third, Noah's son's had children, and their children had children, etc. Just because Noah was righteous, does not mean that all his descendents were righteous.

Therefore, just as mankind became evil *before* the flood, even while Adam and Eve were alive, mankind became evil *after* the flood.

Now to directly answer your question, Yes, they should have been monotheists, but many decided to move away from that way of living.

Lawrence
http://www.truebiblesermons.com

Answer 3

Have you ever played the "whispering game" where someone whispers a secret and you pass it on to someone else? Basically, you take any belief system and the more it is spread among people the more it deviates from the original concept. Look at how many denominations there are in Christianity today. And all that came from the belief in Jesus, not to mention it happened after the flood. So it is not a stretch to envision paganism or any other belief system evolving from a small group of people...not to mention that "free will" is always an option...Even God recognized it's existence.

Answer 4

God endowed mankind with a free will. So they were free to choose any path they wanted even though God wanted them to worship Him. Some people may choose a different path out of curiosity and think their way is the best. It has been this way since man walked the earth. Take a look at all the cults around today. they felt they were right in their thinking but look how some turned out. disastrous, self sacrifice of ones life, even kidnapping and not allowing people to leave their commune. Some day it will change when Jesus returns. In fact, Lucifer was God's favorite angel and he wanted to be just like God. God showed him by casting him into hell for his sins. Then God took free will away from all the other angels so this temptations would not manifest itself again. When we die and enter into heaven, God will take away our free will lest there be more rebellion. Guess I went on and on but the bottom line is man has a free will to practice other religions and this is what happened to some of the people on the arc. Does this help any? I hope so.












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Answer 5

After the flood the number of people grew on the earth and many ceased to believe in God and began to worship the stars and the heavens, finally forming together in a religion centered in the Tower of Babel. To disperse them God confused the languages of the people and they split up and moved throughout the earth taking their pagan religions with them. Just keep reading in the Bible after the flood ends.

Answer 6

First of all, Paganism is not a cult. Its a federally recognized religion. Also, its been PROVEN, that Paganism was the Oldest Religion. NOt monotheism.

Just proves that not everything you read is true. Its what's found here on Earth that counts.

Answer 7

Where did the Christians come from if all the people Deucalion and Pyrrha brought back by throwing the bones of their mother behind them after the flood worshiped the Olympian Gods?

Answer 8

Possibly from the son of Ham. There was a curse involved, dependent on, "Japeth, living in the house of Shem". To me, this means Japeth worshiped the God of Shem, and Noah. But Ham, or his son strayed.

Also, four generations after Noah, Nimrod ruled. And the world was divided.

Answer 9

1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the FATHER, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are ONE

1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in ONE.

1 John 5:20 ( note all will not get this understanding)
And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in the Son of Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life..

Answer 10

Noah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.
Gen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
The word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time.
Gen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.
Gen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.
Gen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
The word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.
Gen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Gen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
If the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.
Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Remember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.
Some consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.
Ussher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.
Records of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption.
So Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7, Jer.4:23-27.
Psa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.