What if the Abrahamic religions were based on the belief that God, the creator of the universe is evil? Or just not necessarily all good? How would such religions influence our society?
I'm not sure the god of the ancient Jews was perceived by them as being "all good".What if the Abrahamic religions were based on the belief that God, the creator of the universe is evil? Or just not necessarily all good? How would such religions influence our society?
He's a bastard but he's our bastard. One of our prophets explicitly states he is the creator of all good and evil things and by his own admission Hashem is a spiteful jealous dick.I'm not sure the god of the ancient Jews was perceived by them as being "all good".
What if the Abrahamic religions were based on the belief that God, the creator of the universe is evil?
It'd be an almost certainty.Are you allowing forthe possibility that there is another non-creator god who is good?
It'd be an almost certainty.
The rough evolution of theism has been basically been animism -> polytheism -> henotheism -> monolatrism -> monotheism.
Early Abrahamism was basically henotheistic - belief in many gods with one supreme - before going monolatric - belief in many gods but worshipping one. If the supreme god is held to be evil rather than capricious then while the Abrahamists would try appeasement they'd avoid worshipping them instead worshipping one who could save them. This would then evolve into a special form of monolatrism, dualism - where you worship the good supreme god against the evil supreme god.
Some forms of it yes. In others Ahriman is more a super-satan than a god him/itself.Like Zoroastrianism?
I mean if the Devil was created by God, and the Devil is is the embodiment of evil, then God created evil.
Some forms of it yes. In others Ahriman is more a super-satan than a god him/itself.
It's probably worth noting that most current monotheisms aren't entirely monotheistic with no other beings bar God itself.
I'm not sure the god of the ancient Jews was perceived by them as being "all good".
Well He was perceived as being good to the Jews when they weren't going all heathen, but being bad news for his enemies.
God and Satan basically swap places, and very little else changes apart from their origin stories?What if the Abrahamic religions were based on the belief that God, the creator of the universe is evil? Or just not necessarily all good? How would such religions influence our society?