name all the monothesitic religions you can?

Question

so argument does not persist, either count chirstianity or dont, just dont get in a whole arument whether its polytheistic.

"Judaism is polytheistic" THere is absolutely NO proof anywhere that thats true., Judiasm might be the most obvious monotheistic religion out there, where do make these things up? i know countless jews who are strict followers and belive in ...how many.... o yeah....ONE god. do u know what monotheistic even means?

Answer 1

I think that all religions( at least the ones I acquainted) are basically monotheistic as they all have ONE Creator

Answer 2

Hinduism -- Any Hindu will tell you that all the gods and goddesses they have are just aspects of the ONE God.

So if you count Christianity as monotheistic which says the same thing (3 in 1, aspects of God), by that definition so is Hinduism also monotheistic.

Zoroastrianism
Judaism
Islam
Bahai
Sikhism

Also, the religion of Ahkenaten, the first Egyptian pharaoh to deny the pantheon of Egyptian gods and create a monotheistic religion.

Buddhism....eh, kind of hard to put in this category as they don't believe in a God, but they do believe in a Universal Creative Force type of thing. I'd put them on the fence about it, sort of.

Answer 3

I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that Christianity is polytheistic because of the Trinity? If so, I think that's a bit unfair. I've heard fundamentalist Protestants claim that Catholics worship statues because they have statues of saints in their churches and they pray to them. This is also unfair.

So much of the comparison of religions, the discussion of similarities and differences of religions, seems to be based on derogating other peoples' religions. Even in the Sunday School classes I had as a child, the study of other religions was based on how they were wrong, and on many supposed beliefs that they have that they really don't.

I think it's important to try to understand and respect the religions of others. Yet religious training in general doesn't seem to want to do this. Almost all of what we know about many of the sects of early Christianity are the writings of 'heresiologists' about how wrong they were. This is like asking Rush Limbaugh what liberals believe.

As for monotheism vs. polytheism, a Hindu friend of mine were talking about this and he said something very interesting. He said Hindus really believe in one God. I said 'Well, what about all those gods you have?' He said ALL the Hindu gods were just different faces of Krishna, Vishnu and Shiva, so there were really only three gods, and all three of those gods went together to make one God, just God. I found that fascinating, that the Hindus have a Trinity too!

Answer 4

I agree with "AM Sweeney Todd" ... I would like to also add:

Henotheism involves devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of other gods. Similarly, monolatrism is the worship of a single deity independent of the ontological claims regarding that deity.

Theism a term that refers to the belief in the existence of a god or divine being.

Deism is a form of monotheism in which it is believed that one god exists. However, a deist rejects the idea that this god intervenes in the world.

Monistic Theism is the type of monotheism found in Hinduis, encompassing pantheism, monism, and at the same time the concept of a personal god

Pantheism holds that the Universe itself is god. The existence of a transcendent supreme extraneous to nature is denied. Depending on how this is understood, such a view may well be presented as tantamount to atheism, deism or panentheism.

Panentheism, or Monistic Monotheism, is a form of theism that holds that god contains, but is not identical to, the Universe. The 'one god' is omnipotent and all-pervading, the universe is part of god, and god is both immanent and transcendent.

Substance monotheism, found in some indigenous African religions, holds that the many gods are different forms of a single underlying substance.

In ancient Egypt
Ancient Middle-Eastern religions may have worshipped a single god within a pantheon and the abolition of all others, as in the case of the Aten cult in the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, under the chiefly influence of the Eastern-originating Nefertiti. Iconoclasm during this pharaoh's rule is considered a chief origin for the subsequent destruction by some groups of idols, holding that no other god before the preferred deity (dually and subtly acknowledging the existence of the other gods, but only as foes to be destroyed for their drawing of attention away from the primary deity).

Other issues such as Divine Right of Kings may possibly also stem from pharaonic laws on the ruler being the demigod or representative of the Creator on Earth. The massive tombs in the Egyptian pyramids which aligned with astronomical observations, perhaps exemplify this relationship between the pharaoh and the heavens.

Persian/indo-european religions: Zoroastrianism, Bahá'ísm, manism, babism and Mithra-ism (mehr).

abrahamic (islam, judaism, christianity)religions that are already mentioned.

Edit: From my readings on Wikipedia I just learned that Sikhism and Hinduism are also mono-theistic religions. Thank you for your question, because I learned something new... I also see Buddhism as a mono-theist religion by the way.

Answer 5

Trinitarian Christianity, like Hinduism (and probably Zoroastrianism), is henotheistic. Judaism is polytheistic. So is Islam. I don't know that there are any purely monotheistic religions.

Answer 6

Judaism*
Christianity**
Islam

Atenism

Zoroastrianism (depends on how you define monotheism, and what variety of Zoroastrianism you're talking about).

*Although likely altered from a polytheistic source
** See typical trinitarian arguments

Answer 7

Well if you ask a Christian if God is one, he or she will say Yes, and then go on with a 'but'.

Yes, but God is three in one. Not like one in one but three in one.

My question: why bother mentioning the whole three in one concept if the conclusion is still God is one?

Certainly there is some amount of dishonesty or confusion involved here.

If God is one, then why bother explaining Hes a three in one instead of: Hes one. full stop

Answer 8

I would say almost all of them except;

Judaism
Jehovah's Witnesses (and a few other Christian religions)
Islam (I think)