Basic Dimension
Assumption 587: Imaginary prospective research.
This blog followed an imaginary cohort of bipedal primates from 14 million years ago through the evolution to the present. It is prospective research into their religious conceptual development.
For example, I encountered religious dilemmas between reincarnation (2 million years ago) and resurrection (350,000 years ago) leading to the true Myth of Abraham (300,000 years ago). Would I have done retrospective research from the present to the past, the false Myth of Abraham (10,000 - 4,000 years ago) would refer to the dilemma polytheism versus monotheism.
The point to make is that prospective research gives different outcomes on the evolution of human religion. This because interactions between conflicting variables (reincarnation vs resurrection) will be encountered prospectively, while retrospectively only the effects (polytheism vs monotheism) of these interactions are visible and the interactions themselves are missed in the evolution.
Assumption 519: The Feast of Sacrifice is the Feast of Reincarnation.Homo erectus (2.2 Mya; 900cc) invented the soul and reincarnation. Millions of years later, Homo sapiens (350 Ka; 1450cc) invented the parallel universe. Of course, a conflict of interest has arisen. For, during the period of Homo erectus, males had become egotheistic gods with absolute self-determination to reincarnate into their own tribe. They never wanted to live with the gods in the afterlife.That's why the myth of Abraham created the compromise in which God was worshiped in the parallel universe and humans were allowed to reincarnate on earth.
Assumption 529: Why the Myth of Abraham must be false:
Well, we are used to psychotic prophets, but Abraham takes the cake. Do we really believe Abraham would kill his only tribal son to please God, apparently with no other reason than to demonstrate his submission? And that would be a masterpiece of human religion? While there are numerous stronger myths about worshiping God?
No, originally this myth must have had a completely different meaning and it must be as old as Homo sapiens, about 350,000 years old.
The myth is not about the transition from polytheism (ancestors, idols) to monotheism (God). Monotheism has recently been developed in the evolution of human religion. This myth must have been crippled by the Desert Religions, which wanted to divert attention from what really matters.
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