2007-01-26 03:45:41 · 10 answers · asked by smarty 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
HI
It started probably at Babel when God gave evryone different languages and then they travelled to other parts of the world and took their beliefs with them.
Lammy
2007-01-26 03:52:03 · answer #1 · answered by Clammy S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Er. divided into? Like it was the action of some entity outside of humans themselves? That doesn't make sense.
We have different religions (at the risk of repeating msyelf) because religions came about as a way to explain the world, how people fit into it, how to survive in it, why there is death, what happens after we die, etc.
And those circumstances were different for different peoples.
If you lived in an environment that allowed for very little wiggle room for survival, then your idea of God would be different than the idea of God that the people living in a very temperate climate that had lots of uncultivated food available.
And then there is the poetic imagination of the people themselves, which is very different from culture to culture.
Plus, most Gods started out as Gods of place - the spirits of the local water supply, the weather of the region, the local flora and fauna, etc, and those also were quite different from place to place.
Now , the poetic imagination of various peoples (also different from place to place and culture to culture), results in different kinds of heros and villains, and different tests they do through, so you have different teaching stories. The "moral of the story" will be very different in different environments..
Last, add a bit of the rules to live by (which will largely be determined by the environment), some rituals for worship, and some rites for inclusion into the group, shake well, and viola! you have a religion!
So it's actually quite logical that there would be different gods for different peoples, and very different types of religions.
2007-01-26 05:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when people were populating the Earth, they landed in different places, they were bored so they needed religions, those religions sort of held groups together, like they all had the same name for god and things like that.
Anyway, then the Earth got more crowded, so people started fighting sometimes, mostly about stealing women and food and land I think. So the fighting caused people to hate all the other people who had other words for god.
2007-01-26 03:54:40 · answer #3 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever read a book and get something different from it than a friend?
Sort of the same thing. Each person chooses to believe what they want. If everyone believed everything in the Bible, there would not be any denominations. However, we chose to believe what we want and don't want to 'associate' with those who believe otherwise.
2007-01-26 04:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by Pamela K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because from the time the man was created by the one and only greatest and most powerful a lot of time has passed. people forgot about God. some began to beleive in themselves (buddism), some began to make corrections in the true religion, and some just stopped believing
2007-01-26 03:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by Gaziz Z 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God divided people into different tribes, people divided themselves into different religions to suite their own lifestyles different from what God wanted for us
2007-01-26 03:52:11 · answer #6 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We weren't divided. We divided ourselves.
2007-01-26 03:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by KC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Satan is ultimately responsible for the divisions but man were the tools to create that end.
2007-01-26 03:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People made their own choices of what to believe. God has allowed it.
2007-01-26 03:53:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We caused the division when we took our eyes off of Christ.
"Have no other gods before Me."
2007-01-26 03:53:14 · answer #10 · answered by heavnbound 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋