How did monotheistic religions came to be?

Answer 1

From a primitive pissing contest.

"My god is better than your god and I'll fight to prove it."
"Well MY god is the ONLY god! And we'll kill anyone who disagrees!"

Answer 2

Monotheistic religions sprouted from the few that were around before Jesus' time: Taoism, Catholicism, etc. The catholic religion spread like an epidemic after Constantine's time, and the Pagans were in protest of it, and that's where you get the christians vs lions cartoon. The christians had already been posed as a threat, but not to be taken down so quickly, immediately discontinued any good doctrines the churches held and began the Witch Trials. From there, christianity spread like a wildfire. Around the late 1400's and early 1500's, people were wanting to escape prosecution from religion, and with the gold search in the New World already under way, escapees from prosecution began inhabiting the New World with "peaceful doctrines" that interfered with the Shamanistic religion that was already the main religion of the new world with the Indians. This caused disturbances and conflict, and eventually drove the settlers to decide to move any and all Indians from their homeland and drag them some 1500 miles in the Trail of Tears.

Ever since there has been monotheism, there have been millions of murders in the name of a god. Peaceful doctrine is yet STILL to be practiced by all monotheists.

Answer 3

I believe the first monotheistic gods came from Egypt, although there is evidence for early pagan type monotheism in Turkey as well.

Answer 4

Through incredible suffering, agony, and death. In Egypt, the step virtually destroyed the position of pharaoh.
In the Bible, the fight lasted for centuries. Jacob a patriarch had household idols. Throughout the period of kings, a battle raged between 1 central House of God and countless shrines, often w/ their own gods. The OT is essentially two stories: defining religion to include social justice in relationship to others and emphasizing the exclusivitity of God's covenenat with Israel.

Answer 5

In ancient polytheistic cultures, there was always one deity which was the 'Supreme' deity. It's likely that instead of attributing the water to one god, the trees to another, and so on, ancient peoples began attributing everything to this one, 'Supreme' God.

Answer 6

By eliminating the competition.

Answer 7

one day, a man asked himself, "what is the easiest way to mass-control every other human to do as i say, and give me money and power?"