What was your god doing before the first monotheistic religions got started? Why didnt he show himself to humanity sometime in the first few thousand years (at least) that humans were around?
2007-03-22 14:23:06 · 19 answers · asked by funaholic 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
fine...
where was your god the first hundred thousand years of mankind?
2007-03-22 14:27:35 · update #1
As far as I can discern, their god wasn't there, just as it is not here today, except as a figment of peoples' imaginations. Ditto every other invisible-paternal-figure deity concept that's out there.
Be honest with yourself, people, how could a volume of contradictory books coupled with fallacious logic be proof of anything except to someone incapable of analytical thought?
The idea that this planet was created AFTER the agricultural revolution by a petty, jealous, invisible man in the sky who loves you but will see you burn if you piss him off is ludicrous, and anyone who believes it deserves ridicule.
2007-03-22 14:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by SayDoYouWantToGoSeeAMovie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh wow... are you serious?
Well in case you are, because we believe in the bible ;we believe that our God created Adam and Eve first... and there were no people to form any other religions. Surely after God populated the earth and formed the nations people did venture off into other beliefs and religions, but the God of the bible is the God of the Jew and the Christians.
As far as why He didn't show Himself to the world... because He didn't have to... He's God.. His plan is His plan and not what we think it should be.
And Christ didn't come til muuuuuuch later!
2007-03-22 14:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because according to Christians, the world started 6000 years ago, with Adam, Eve and a few others who supposedly knew God right away.
The civilisations that existed prior to 6000 years ago didn't really exist. They are a fig-newton of our menageries. Carbon dating and archaeology are completely unreliable. What appears to be tens of thousands of years old is really only a few thousand years old and all of our measurments are rendered useless because of the flood. Science is ignorant and only the Bible has any truth in it.
Right..............
2007-03-22 14:29:33 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't around to show himself. Christ was made God by King Constantine. He needed to keep the Pagans (actually a highly civilized people) in check by propagating Christianity. But Christianity needed a God. Till then they didn't have one so Constantine proclaimed Jesus Christ God three hundred years after Christ died. Now 33% of the World's population follow Constantine's declaration of divinity.
2007-03-22 14:31:41 · answer #4 · answered by MEA 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
not christian, but....
i believe the idea is that the first five chapters of genesis was a "living history" passed down verbally from father to son for thousands of years before it was written. and we do see some evidence of single god worship before the written word. (cause, remember darlin, people did believe before they could write.)
personally, i think the old testament has been bastardized in translation in the modern era. and that perhaps what jesus of nazareth was saying in the new testament (or biography version, first four chaps) has been taken waaaay out of context. there are some incidents of a man named jesus in texts from asia and i wonder about those missing years that the catholic church probably knows about.
2007-03-22 14:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He did. Jews as a nation didn't exist until after Jacob, and the Jewish religion didn't properly start until Moses' time. Before then, there was no order in the "Jewish" faith, just people who worshipped God by making an effort not to sin, and by offering up their best animal when they did sin.
jeez, this is in the Bible... Adam and Eve weren't Jews....
2007-03-22 14:40:03 · answer #6 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If one reads scripture in a literal way ... your question is very hard to answer and get the answer that you expect.
However, if one sees the Bible the way that many, many theologians read it you may find that God created these early humans, and animals, and communicated with them in ways that they understood. He took them as they were and it was between God and the humans. Perhaps it is not for us to know. Perhaps it is not to be understood in the terms we know today.
If you're looking to make trouble and ask questions that no one can answer ..... you're barking up the wrong family tree.
Kev
2007-03-22 14:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by Hobgoblin Kev 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The deities were most likely pagan fertility beings. Most Western and Northern Europeans were Druids or into another nature oriented religion before they were beaten by the Romans who converted them. Hell, the Romans themselves were pagans up until around 320 AD. They worshiped gods from Greece who in turn got theirs from Babylon.
2007-03-22 14:28:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-19 09:27:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worship the same God that the early Israelites did and the same God that Jesus did. Jesus was raised as an Israelite and his God was YHWH, more commonly in English (but not necessarily correct rendering, but the MOST common form) as Jehovah
2007-03-22 14:33:50 · answer #10 · answered by gordo_burns 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋