Creation of God

A brief history of monotheism from the author of the books "Jesus: Historical Investigation" and "Christ with a Thousand Faces". The importance of the idea of monotheism is hard to overestimate - the entire modern world is shaped by monotheism. However, monotheism, if you think about it, is a very strange idea. The belief that there is one single creator god who is all-good, but at the same time accountable for deaths, epidemics, cancer and heart attacks, the demise of infants and righteous people, is a quirky and non-essential idea. Chinese civilization has been thriving for over three thousand years without it. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome flourished for centuries without monotheism. The author of this book will not discuss the concept of the One God from either a theological or philosophical perspective. If you have wandered here in search of transcendental beginnings - this is not the place for you. This book has just one goal - historical analysis. To examine how the idea of a single god arose and evolved, and what interest groups it served. How did monotheism originate? Where did the Jews who worshipped Yahweh but were not monotheists go? And what relationship do the ancient beliefs of the Jews, which did not fit into the strict monotheistic canon but have been preserved in the folk tradition for centuries, have to the development of the two other major monotheistic religions - Christianity and Islam? This book is dedicated to answering these questions.