Religious Studies 1023E Lecture : Abrahamic Religions
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World religions y abraham (ibrahim: lived with his family, nomads. sheppards: had some sort of religion, polytheistic (more than one god, demolished all the sculptures of the other gods and said that this religion was not good, introduced new kind of faith. started to claim that there is only one god: forced to leave the family, established his own tribe. god cannot be represented by matter, cannot even imagine, non-approachable, ultimate other y transcendent. 1) everything was created by god y we were created by god, children of god y. wanted to find a constant point to found his belief. stars: beautiful, then they move, no constant enough. power that created everything: beyond everything, moving everything, etc. didn t know them, fed them, they left and said next year you will have a child (both were very old, sarah giggled)