Over 90% of humanity can be identified as Monotheists (Abrahamic religions), Henotheists (largely Hindi in India), and Atheists (largely Chinese in China). Here we only highlight Monotheism and Henotheism.
The reference documents
The Bible is the reference book for Abrahamic religions. Abraham is believed to have lived 4,000 years ago. It would be impossible for Abraham to use Hebrew as a language since Hebrew is only 3,000 years old. There is no consensus on the author of the Old Testament. Professor Bart Ehrman shared today’s Old Testament is largely 1,000 years old. The oldest piece of the New Testament is less than 1700 years old. The New International Version (NIV) of the Bible in English was first printed in 1978.
Ramayana and Mahabharata are the epic stories for Henotheists in India. These stories are believed to have happened 5,000 years ago. It would be impossible for the author(s) of these stories such as Veda to use Sanskrit as a language since Sanskrit is only 3,500 years old. Bhagavad Gita is one of the stories in Mahabharata that promulgates Krishna as the omnipotent deity who orally communicated Bhagavad Gita to his first disciple Arjuna (similar to Peter as the first disciple of Jesus). The full 874-page Bhagavad Gita – As It Is book in Sanskrit and English was printed in 1983.
The stories
Monotheism centers on the offspring of Abraham. Jews claim Abraham as the first Jew. Christians claim Jesus is an offspring (with a virgin mother) of Isaac, Abraham’s son by Sarah. Muslims claim Ishmael, Abraham’s son by Hagar, is Abraham’s heir eventually to Allah through a messenger Mohammad. In fact, Isaac and Ishmael were half-brothers. (Corollary: We accept one man having children with two women.)
Henotheism’s Bhagavad Gita describes the battle between the children of the brothers Dhritarashtra and Pandu, who are children of Bharata. Krishna was an intermediary of these two groups. Krishna himself had an army that was aligned with the children of Dhritarashtra, but Krishna himself became an advisor to the children of Pandu as the war started.
Observation
Do you see a parallel between the stories in Monotheism and Henotheism?
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