If god created adam and eve, then why do arachaelogists have data that polytheism predated monotheism?
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Christianity as well as other religions are not real, science is the only real answer to your question!
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I personally don't believe any of them,without some actual proof I see no reason to bow my knee to what is nothing more than mankinds feeble attempt to explain his existence. That said I find it interesting that the earliest translations of the Bible refer to the making of man as "we will make him in our image" which of course others have said referred to God the father and his son, but since this was before the fall of man it makes no sense. And if there are no other actual Gods then what of the admonition that "you will have no other Gods before me" a statement made clearly in a way that would lead one to clearly believe that there are in fact other gods.\nGood question though,and to answer the questtion posed by migz 07 the reason half the world worships based on the monotheistic ideal(Islam Judaism and Christianity) is because these are the three religions that not only teach but enforce their religion upon their people,in different parts of the world at different times rejection of these religions could mean societal rejection or in many cases even death,that's a pretty strong incentive to worship as required.
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A monotheistic religion is a religion that believes in one, and only one, god.  Monotheism is opposite of polytheism, which is the belief in many gods.\n\nThe classic example for monotheism would be the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church believe in one, and only one, God.  They even say it every Sunday at church during the "Apostle's Creed.":\n    "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,\n    the Creator of heaven and earth...."\nOther examples of monotheistic relgions are Judaism and Hunduism.\n\nAn example of polytheism would be the beliefs of the ancient Greeks who believed in many gods... Zeus, Poseiden, Hades, Apollo, etc.\n\nI hope I was able to help answer your question :).
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There was no green peace, democrats or womens rights organizations during the supposed time of Adam and Eve. And its nothing to do with Eve personally. I guess God wasnt worried about Adam eating it because he was to stupid to figure out what a "tree" or an "apple" were. A better question would be, who let the snake in? or Why did God create the tree and apple in the first place?
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They are all monotheistic, they all call recognize the god of the bible. Together they repersent over two thirds of the worlds population all pointing to the cretor god of the bible the God of abraham.
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You should have read Genesis first  to formulate a good question. The Bible doesn't begin with Adam and Eve, rather "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth"...Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light (Gen 1:1-3).\n\nGen 1:24-25 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds." And so it happened: \nGod made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth.\n\nThe Bible is not to be treated like an Almanac, Encylopedia nor wikipedia. Because if you do, you'll end up looking also for lemurs, armadillo etc.
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GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.\nGE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.\n\nGE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.\nGE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.\n\nGE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.\nGE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.\n\nGE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.\nGE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.\n\nGE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.\nGE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.\n\nGE 1:28 God encourages reproduction.\nLE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)\n\nGE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation.\nGE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation.\n(Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)\n\nGE 2:4, 4:26, 12:8, 22:14-16, 26:25 God was already known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) much earlier than the time of Moses.\nEX 6:2-3 God was first known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) at the time of the Egyptian Bondage, during the life of Moses.\n\nGE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit.\nGE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.\n\nGE 2:15-17, 3:4-6 It is wrong to want to be able to tell good from evil.\nHE 5:13-14 It is immature to be unable to tell good from evil.\n\nGE 4:4-5 God prefers Abel's offering and has no regard for Cain's.\n2CH 19:7, AC 10:34, RO 2:11 God shows no partiality. He treats all alike.\n\nGE 4:9 God asks Cain where his brother Able is.\nPR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view.\n\nGE 4:15, DT 32:19-27, IS 34:8 God is a vengeful god.\nEX 15:3, IS 42:13, HE 12:29 God is a warrior. God is a consuming fire.\nEX 20:5, 34:14, DT 4:24, 5:9, 6:15, 29:20, 32:21 God is a jealous god.\nLE 26:7-8, NU 31:17-18, DT 20:16-17, JS 10:40, JG 14:19, EZ 9:5-7 The Spirit of God is (sometimes) murder and killing.\nNU 25:3-4, DT 6:15, 9:7-8, 29:20, 32:21, PS 7:11, 78:49, JE 4:8, 17:4, 32:30-31, ZP 2:2 God is angry. His anger is sometimes fierce.\n2SA 22:7-8 (KJV) "I called to the Lord; ... he heard my voice; ... The earth trembled and quaked, ... because he was angry. Smoke came from his nostrils. Consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it."\nEZ 6:12, NA 1:2, 6 God is jealous and furious. He reserves wrath for, and takes revenge on, his enemies. "... who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and rocks are thrown down by him."\n2CO 13:11, 14, 1JN 4:8, 16 God is love.\nGA 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit of God is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.\n\nGE 4:16 Cain went away (or out) from the presence of the Lord.\nJE 23:23-24 A man cannot hide from God. God fills heaven and earth.\n\nGE 6:4 There were Nephilim (giants) before the Flood.\nGE 7:21 All creatures other than Noah and his clan were annihilated by the Flood.\nNU 13:33 There were Nephilim after the Flood.\n\nGE 6:6. EX 32:14, NU 14:20, 1SA 15:35, 2SA 24:16 God does change his mind.\nNU 23:19-20, 1SA 15:29, JA 1:17 God does not change his mind.\n\nGE 6:19-22, 7:8-9, 7:14-16 Two of each kind are to be taken, and are taken, aboard Noah's Ark.\nGE 7:2-5 Seven pairs of some kinds are to be taken (and are taken) aboard the Ark.\n\nGE 7:1 Noah was righteous.\nJB 1:1,8, JB 2:3 Job was righteous.\nLK 1:6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous.\nJA 5:16 Some men are righteous, (which makes their prayers effective).\n1JN 3:6-9 Christians become righteous (or else they are not really Christians).\nRO 3:10, 3:23, 1JN 1:8-10 No one was or is righteous.\n\nGE 7:7 Noah and his clan ent
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GOD/ALLAH when he creat Adam & eve .. he creat them as us as we are now ... \n\nbut there was diffrent just in the size and the age ...\n\nthe human where b4 more big and tall ... and they where live for long time... could reach for 1000 years ...\n\nbut as look we were the same as now ... and whom said we are orginal ( monkey ) not true ...bcs as we know first human where adam and eve .... \n\nand just the atheist ppl put thats to have prove for them , thats no god there ...and thats totlay wrong ...\n\nGOD/ALLAH bless you
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Because it is scientific fact. But, i still think god set off evolution. Adam, as we call him, was the first reliogus human.
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Single, It is all about faith and your beliefs. If you believe in Jelly fish, then that's the path you choose and there or others who believe that Adam came from that higher power, GOD. I believe in the latter, and guess what? If all evolved from protoplasm, Then God mad that Protoplasm. There is no escaping it. God IS the creator. Final.
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No, because if you study the history of theology many religions existed before the Bible was written.
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Huge Problems!!! where!!  have you ever thought the rules of the past may not be applied to what is today!  Adam is believed to have been created as a perfect being, and we know now that the humans are not perfect! get the point!!  Once upon a time Africa was a huge forest, now it is a big desert! ever wondered why!  think about it.\nDuring the time of ADAM and EVE, some believe didn't even have a spoken language, and now, we have so many languages!! ever wondered why!\nEarth is a living, or dying plant.  what was in the past, we many never see, or see again.\nCan you explain any of my questions! if you can! then you will get the answer to your questions as well.  Good luck if you can.\n\nIf the Genesis confuse you, try the Quran, but first take two asprines before you start reading. \ntake my advice.  Sincerely llewrose MD :)
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There were many religions before Christianity. Judaism is one, just the Old Testament. Other religions have multiple Gods and Goddesses. Some have none. Christianity is not the only and not the first and maybe not even the right religion.
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If you buy into Judeo-Christian mythology, God is the author of free will.  Satan is not a creator, but a perverter, and thus could not give to Adam and Eve an inherent quality that they did not already possess.
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It doesn't matter what time God sent the Messiah to earth, because the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is retroactive and forward acting as well.  That is, it applies to all people who lived before Him and after Him.  Therefore, the "thousands or years" between Adam and Eve and Jesus Christ make little difference.\n\nI don't believe that Adam and Eve were a "failed experiment".  They were our first parents that set everything in motion for us to come to this earth and live our lives.\n\nAs far as the flip-flopping, I don't think it was flip-flopping.  Often God gives us a simpler version of His rules because He knows we can't handle something harder.  It's quite merciful of Him, actually.  It's something akin to how children progress in school.  We start out the kids with basic arithmetic before we can expect them to do algebra, let alone calculus or quantum mechanics.  God does the same with us.
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Nothing of this kind would happen. The stranglehold of  religion is so strong on human minds that even the discovery that there are other parallel universes elsewhere would not loosen it. In fact, the findings of such a bewieldering variety of intelligent 'human beings'    would firm up their faith in God and belief in His infinite capacity of creation.Perhaps if the aliens are also religious they might be having similar ideas of their being created in the image of their god in which case there would a confluence of ideas further bolstering religion.When the monotheist and polytheist religions came into contact with each other both of them adjusted their beliefs to the new findings. The monotheists took that the many forms of god are but the multifarious manifestations of a single god. The polytheists joined in by saying that God is essentially one and only one and all others are his forms taken by him on various occasions. The Indian philosopher Shankaracharya says that even a savage performing human sacrifices is a religious person in no way inferior from the philosoher who attempts to attaain god merely through meditation.  The difference is only in degrees.The savage does not sacrifice human just for satisfying his tougue with flesh. He has an unclear and yet definitely an idea to rise above him.The clash of civilisations which is at present  much talked about is not essentially bad. It is an opportunity of evolving a deeper understanding of each other.
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No, but I think modern monkeys and I had a common ancestor a very, very long time ago.  When a family diverges, they start getting different pretty quickly, depending on who they marry.  If one of my more recent ancestors went to China while my branch went to America, we'd look rather different now, wouldn't we? Why is it so hard to believe a more ancient equivalent, except because you are trying to take literally something which was written when scientific knowledge was extremely primative?\n\nScience and religion have two different goals, two different world views, and two vastly different vocabularies.  Religion is writing about things so beyond human experience that our words just do not fit, and we have to resort to symbols.  When you look at ancient manuscripts and ponder the symbols, you get a lot more than you get from words which have been sorted through any number of translations and interpretations since they were written.  Not a single word of the modern Bible (and remember, you go into a Bible Bookstore, you will find a great many modern versions, not just one) was originally written in English.  The writers had probably never even heard about that far-off island, and English as we know it had not been born.\n\nPlease, don't ridicule those of us who accept the theory of evolution as the most reasonable one.  We have let you continue to label it "theory" once most the rest of us have accepted it as fact.  Don't ask for more!