After all, the abovementioned terms did not always exist in the human religious vocabulary. Has the entire Earth been so influenced by monotheism and it’s culture? Has multicultural Earth been assimilated by monotheism? Do people use language and phrases or think in monotheistic ways without even realizing it?
2006-10-04 00:11:45 · 6 answers · asked by Yahoo user 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Let me clarify (as I’ve noticed some confusion did arise): God with a capital ‘G’ differs from ‘gods’ or ‘Goddess’; Devil, as a supreme, total evil, differs from’ devils’ that might be just capricious gods; Heaven, in terms of a Salvation religion, takes a different spin from that of any other ‘heaven’; while ‘sin’, in terms of Christian terminology, really has no true equivalent in the pre-Christian world.
2006-10-04 01:25:13 · update #1
Well, if you're raised in the West, these concepts are a part of culture, from religion to history to even pop culture. (What American kid never saw a cartoon where a character had an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other?) So yes, I'd say for Westerners, it certainly is an "automatic" response, because of societal conditioning. Same way someone raised in India would find the notions of hell and even "evil" in the Western conception of it very strange and not automatic responses.
2006-10-04 01:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I could have sworn the term Devil and Hell predated monotheism. God as well for that matter. But then, there are plenty of synonomous terms for them in older religions.
2006-10-04 07:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The terms mentioned above, are used in conformed religion.
As humans have the need to name everything, therefore it shortens the time to explain what they are talking about.
It also gives people a name such as "Hell" to use against another person.
Hope this helps.
2006-10-04 08:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by eyes_of_iceblue 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unless you're able to speak a freakish number of languages you're getting the christianized revisions of other cultures from christian translators.
2006-10-04 10:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it all began in Babylon- remember-GOD mixed up the languages? but the beliefs were still there only the languages changed- and with them the words- his origional name is Yashua!!!!
2006-10-04 09:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by drox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you believe there is more than one God?
The reason culture is monotheistic, is because there is only one God.
2006-10-04 07:14:51 · answer #6 · answered by misjes2000 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋