Monotheism. While the rest of the world believed in many gods, each with a particular function, the Jews believed in ONE God, who was THEIR God and at the same time the ONLY God. No wonder everybody got so cross with them.
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Dictionaries define "Judaism" as The monotheistic religion of the Jews, since the founding principle of Judaism was the unique belief in One ethical God. At the time of Abraham the Hebrew, the world was full of pagan cults; they were polytheistic, worshiping multiple deities and lacking moral character. Their gods were described as adulterers and killers, and their rites were accompanied by things such as human sacrifice, "sacred" prostitution, and animal worship. Abraham was the first to advance the idea of ethical monotheism: the worship of One God, and the appropriate ethical code of conduct.
Dictionaries define "Judaism" as The monotheistic religion of the Jews, since the founding principle of Judaism was the unique belief in One ethical God. This was the teaching which was spread by Abraham, and has continued since then.
From Judaism, belief in One God has spread through the Western world. It was unlike idolatry, which had tended to go hand in hand with cruel, licentious and excessive behavior, since the caprices which were narrated concerning the idols were adopted as an excuse to imitate those types of behavior.
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"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and of collective conscience, and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).
All of the above existed in Judaism thousands of years earlier than in other nations. Here's just one example: Infanticide was practiced in classical European nations until Judaism and its daughter-religions put a stop to it.
he discriminated against everyone, at different times and to varying degrees. At the end he even turned against the Germans.
Different religions have different opinions about the one God. My own opinion about this is that God has sent different Messengers with His instructions, teachings, etc., at different times, but not all people recognize the different representatives as coming from one and the same God. Note, also, that not all religions actually believe in one single god.
It did not. Different forms of worship existed durning the empire. The Romans tolerated the religions of the conquered people, though Christianity was pesecuted several times. This was because it spread throughout the empire (while the others were localised) and, unlike the other religions of the time, it was monotheistic. The various forms of Chrisitanity developed before the fall of the empire. No new religions developed out of the fall of the empire.
Rome's policy towards other religions of the empire was one of toleration and in many cases absorption. Mithraism, the worship of Isis and the Great Mother Cybele were all foreign cults that were imported to Rome. Often times they found similarities between the foreign gods and their own. The only religion or cult that they are known to have not tolerated was the Druids. This was because to the Romans, the Druids with their various authorities over aspects of people's lives were dangerous. They were also repulsed by the Druids' practice of human sacrifice.
Today were refer to it as Biblical Judaism, but in Ancient times, it had no name.
The religion was JUDAISM.
The main religions in Germany are Christianity, Judaism, Romani, & in more recent times, Islam.
Judaism was a monotheistic religion - meaning that the Jews believed in ONE god only. (The Romans believed several gods and goddesses -polytheism)
Each denomination of Judaism has its own corporeal advisory board, but ultimately, all Jews much adhere to the laws of Halachah which are derived cheifly from (in reverse chronological order) the Shulchan Aruch, the Talmud, the Mishnah and most importantly, the Torah. There is no centralised authority in Judaism like in other religions.
Religions of Middle Eastern antiquity that have not survived to modern times, special attention is given in the introduction to their role as antecedents of the major Western religions (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, and Islām), all of which originated in the region.
If i understood this question correctly, muslims, jews, and christians can intermarry but cannot marry members of other religions probably because Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all Abrahamic religions, which are all related to the biblical times and have many of the same stories, such as that of Abraham (known as Ibrahim in Islam). Along with this, all three of these religions acknowledge the existence of Jesus Christ.
All world religions came from the same general areas. Judaism's followers traveled through Egypt and met pharaohs affecting their religions, Persia and met kings affecting Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam are forms or evolutions of judaism. Asia in old times was considered to begin in the Middle East and extend through china and India and Japan. Most of these religions had common ties.
According to our tradition, Judaism, founded by Abraham, began as a sharp departure from the religions of the ancient world and owes nothing to them. There are apparent similarities (for example, everyone in olden times offered sacrifices). But in formulating Judaism, Abraham turned his back on the rest of the world and didn't use their practices as a basis for anything in Judaism.
The Romans were tolerant of other religions and many times found foreign gods were actually the same gods that the Romans worshiped only they had different names and sometimes different rites. They only clamped down on cults that they considered treasonous or decadent.
Only the religions from God are good, so that would include Judaism in Old Testament times and Messianic Judaism and Christianity in New Testament times. The New Testament is newer than the old. If you read it ,you gain wisdom and a renewed mind once you believe and get saved.
he discriminated against everyone, at different times and to varying degrees. At the end he even turned against the Germans.
The following religions were present in Rome at various times, to a significant extent: * animism * paganism * Mithraism * Christianity * Judaism (probably to a lesser extent than the others) There were sub-division of the above. In early times, Christianity was represented by proto-Catholic-Orthodox and Gnostic (and other) wings, eventually resolving to the Roman Catholic Church only. Mithraism evolved for some, to the worship of Sol Invictus. Paganism also had varous forms, including the 'mystery' religions.