Monotheism came BEFORE polytheism. Agree?

Question

Monotheism came BEFORE polytheism. The first religions were monotheistic. The archeological evidence backs this up.

People in Sumeria (where Abraham was from) USED to worship the Judeo-Christian God, but they fell away from it and started to worship other Gods.

This is why there is a 1,500 year gap of no monotheism in the middle east.

Writing was invented around 3,500 B.C. there.

Judiasm (according to atheists) was founded by Abraham in between 2,000 and 1,800 B.C.

AT first, this may seem like a contradiction, BUT when you read the Bible, it clearly says that people had fallen away from the truth and Abraham was a minority because he followed the true God.

This gap is explained by the fact that people in Sumeria had fallen away from God.

Answer 1

Animism came first...does all of human history stem from the middle east? I think not. You would need to examine world history to find the answer to this question. I have a feeling you are not willing to do that.

Answer 2

Archeological evidence absolutely does NOT back that up. Monotheism and patriarchy are new in the world. Before that, most cultures worshiped the Great Mother Goddess and lived in peace. Jews, Christians and Muslims did everything they could to erase records of Her, but they didn't get them all.

Now we are rebuilding our Goddess culture and showing people that there is a way of peace, without the Semitic war god.

Answer 3

What an invented load or tosh!! there have been many hundred diverse religions properly before Christianity became into ever seen and a brilliant form of had a single god and have been for this reason monotheistic!! there are a number of written information from before Christianity and definitely the flood is recorded in written scripts from 4 religions that properly predate Christianity!! certainly the shortcoming of modern writing is a project for Christianity!! there is not any longer one single point out of Jesus interior the completed Roman checklist - this is powerful - no longer one!!! on the comparable time as he became into meant to have been around there have been a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are properly recorded!! Even the bible mentions of him like another references weren't written till some years after his meant dying!! At ideal he became into an amalgam of those others!!

Answer 4

All forms of pagan worship would have been wiped off during the flood with only Noah's family remaining. Noah's great grandson Nimrod is credited with introducing idol worship to control the people during the construction of the Tower of Babel.
According to the Midrashim Noah's father was the village idol maker, making idols for Nimrod. It is believed that Noah's son Shem taught Abraham about the true God .

Answer 5

No. I do not agree, as we have evidence of polytheism before monotheism. Even the bible says, "thy shall have no other Gods before me."

Writing was invented before 3500 BCE. Check your history.

Answer 6

Why do you feel all the evidence has to come from the Middle East. Chinese culture (polytheistic) existed thousands of years before.

Answer 7

Animism came first, all the evidence indicates, and it's a form of polytheism.

Answer 8

disagree

the first form of religion was animism and ancestor worship

the deity of the bible is around 4000 years old

man has been around for a little over a million years

Answer 9

Egyptian (3150 BCE), Hindu (2600BCE), all date back before the Jewish religions (1200BCE). the gods of the Greeks and Romans Are as old.

Answer 10

we know that the neanderthals buried their dead with funerary rituals. they would not have done this unless they had some kind of religious belief.

no one has any idea what the neanderthals believed.

so what you are saying is neither wrong nor right. it is just meaningless.