Multitude of Gods Give Way to one Almighty
In the society's of the ancient world there were numerous Gods and Goddesses. Sometime in the 14th century B.C. in Egypt Pharaoh Amenhotep IV made a radical attempt to introduce Monotheism belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. His God was was Athen, the life giving disc of the sun. In 1346 B.C. he changed his name and christened hims self Akhenaten (Servant of Athen) He closed all temples and had all scripturs with with the text "Gods, plural" erased, moved to Akhetaten which made the new capital and dedicated it it Athen, the new God!
It fell to the tribes of Israel to become the first people to embrace decisively the worship of a single God. Their commitment to the belief in one God began the the very early arise of the Bible The Old Testament.
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