HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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They worshiped many deities
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They believed in animal spirits
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They worshiped only a single God
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They believed in life after death
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Jewish beliefs, they had a special covenant-agreement-with their God. This covenant said that the Jews were God’s chosen people, and in exchange they would follow God’s laws, and worship only him. This was the source of an exclusive belief in the Jewish God.
Detailed explanation-2: -Israelite tradition identified YHWH (by scholarly convention pronounced Yahweh), the God of Israel, with the creator of the world, who had been known and worshipped from the beginning of time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Post-exilic Judaism, after the late 6th century BCE, was the first religion to conceive the notion of a personal monotheistic God within a monist context.
Detailed explanation-4: -polytheism, the belief in many gods. Polytheism characterizes virtually all religions other than Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common tradition of monotheism, the belief in one God.
Detailed explanation-5: -There is a God. There is one God. God has no physical body. God is eternal. Only God may be worshipped. Prophecy–God communicates with humans. Moses was the greatest of the prophets. The Torah came from God. More items