According to Anthropology, all of the world’s cultures originally believed in one God who was the creator. Wh

Question

for theology class

Answer 1

I seriously doubt the whole world believed in one God, but as far as I know the first EVIDENCE of a "diety" used for worship was found in a cave in South Africa. It's 70,000 years old.

Answer 2

Hopefully, you have misread the material or wrote the question wrong. There may have been only one named as creator but others also.  Now, there is very early small statues found of a large woman but nothing is known about them.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

Babylonian-In the poem, the god Marduk (or Assur in the Assyrian versions of the poem) is created to defend the divine beings from an attack plotted by the ocean goddess Tiamat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_beli...

Oh,oh,oh- I can't even tell you one of the creation stories told by the ancient Egyptians.  You can do the research, I'm not going any further with this stuff.

Answer 3

The very first evidence of Monotheism came from Akhenaten, the Egyptian Pharaoh who reigned circa 15th Century BCE. He was a contemporary of Moses, who essentially founded Judaism (The Torah) about the same time!

Before that, there were no known Monotheistic religions!

The monotheistic Christianity & Islam were to follow, several thousand years later!

Answer 4

I think Anthropology is wrong in this case. I sometimes wonder if humans possess a gene that inclines them to religion. Regardless of isolation, time, or geography, all societies and cultures had a religion. They were all different. For some, it was character associated with the stars. Others worshiped volcanoes. Some saw spirits in natural formations. Some had one God to cover every aspect of life, while others had dozens of separate Gods for each natural earth and atmospheric occurrence. No, I can't jump on that boat, that there was originally one God. Religions have been as diversified as the human imagination.

Answer 5

this is not so - there are several cultures with polytheistic creation stories. However, humans ask questions and the tendency is to say, well who created al those gods? There must have been a single, unit origin for all of them too, so the usual answer is to posit a single all powerful god who has always existed and created everything. This answer stops all the questioning! ie monotheism is a natural product of the human tendency to question things.

Answer 6

I don't think so!!

Answer 7

What is the source of your statement?

I've yet to see such a statement in any anthropology book. Moreover a number of cultures (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Aztec, Incan, Mayan) come to mind that were anything but monotheistic.

Answer 8

I don't think that's true...

Answer 9

I have never seen an anthropology text claim ALL the world's cultures believe in a single entity as a creator.

Who told you this?

If this statement came a comparative religion text or religious studies text it cant be a very good one!