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Full Idea
It was only sometime around the sixth century BC, during the period when the Israelites returned to Jerusalem, that the idea that there is only one God emerged in Jewish religion.
Gist of Idea
Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE
Source
John Gray (Seven Types of Atheism [2018], Intro)
Book Ref
Gray,John: 'Seven Types of Atheism' [Penguin 2019], p.5
A Reaction
There seems to be a parallel move among the Greeks to elevate Zeus to special status.
| 23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
| 23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
| 23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
| 23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |
| 23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |