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Question 1

What is a mythic age of ignorance, and why do most religions invent one?

Answer 1

It is the period of time before the religion that will be described as terrible because it makes the religion so good.

Question 2

Describe the mythic age of ignorance for each tradition: Judaism

Answer 2

Canaanites are the people who are proclaimed to be wicked before judaism because they worship multiple gods.

Question 3

Describe the mythic age of ignorance for each tradition: Islam

Answer 3

the myth of jahiliyya was invented to make Islam seem as though it were an improvement over what came before.

Question 4

Describe the mythic age of ignorance for each tradition: Christianity

Answer 4

These allegedly evil Jews hated the kindness and mercy displayed by Jesus, so the story goes, and they conspired with the authorities to kill Jesus

Question 5

What does it mean to say that every religion is a “mutt”?

Answer 5

Because every is taken a little bit from other religions, they all layer together to create new religions.

Question 6

Are you able to describe the common elements of an ancient patron-god religion?

Answer 6

It was a state supported religion that the king was the head of and was tied closely with the god. God chose the kings.

Question 7

What role did a temple play in a patron-god religion?

Answer 7

a temple was a center for the royal bureaucracy

Question 8

What was the relationship between a patron god and the human king? …between the patron god and the people?

Answer 8

The god chose the king, Then the subordinate god served the higher god just as the people were patrons of the human king.

Question 9

What role did a “prophet” play in a patron-god religion?

Answer 9

The served to come from the patron god as a messenger for a warning of some sort.

Question 10

How was “righteousness” defined in a patron-god religion?

Answer 10

the “righteousness” demanded by a patron god was dictated by the prevailing prejudices of the day

Question 11

How does the treatment of women illustrate the way in which “righteousness” was defined in a patron-god religion?

Answer 11

it really is defined by how the people felt at the time because the gods were really created from the human minds of the time. so they hated women then and so did the patron gob obvi

Question 12

How does henotheism differ from monotheism?

Answer 12

Because henotheism is the worship of multiple tiers of supernatural beings or gods.

Question 13

How does monolatry differ from monotheism?

Answer 13

in monolatry it can say that there are other gods but the religion only worships the one. whereas monotheism denies that there are other gods at all

Question 14

Describe how the gods of an ancient kingdom mirrored the hierarchy of human society.

Answer 14

The patro god – king
cosmic gods – noble
gods of every day life— commoners
messenger gods – slaves

Question 15

How and when was “Satan” defined as an evil god?

Answer 15

satan appeared in the jewish bible usually working for YehWeh and he was the adversary of wicked humans but then people turned him into the face of wickedness and then the Christians took it to another level as well.

Question 16

Describe the four common personality traits of any ancient patron god

Answer 16

1) mighty warrior
2) righteous judge
3) Merciful and giving of many gifts
4) Obsessed with receiving worship

Question 17

In ancient Judaism, how did the kings of Judah depict their patron god, YHWH?

Answer 17

These objects frequently include a winged solar disk, depicting the royal house’s patron god.

Question 18

Today, the common assumption among Jews, Christians, and Muslims is that their god desires worship. Why do they make this assumption about their god?

Answer 18

Because there religions are based on patro god religion where this was a key aspect.

Question 19

When and why did ancient Judaism abandon patron-god religion?

Answer 19

Because of the emergence of rabbinic judaism

Question 20

When and why did Christianity become a patron-god religion?

Answer 20

It was because chritianity was embraced by the romans which considered jesus to be a patrol god and that was their religion before.

Question 21

When and why did Islam become a patron-god religion?

Answer 21

it was always a patron god religion

Question 22

What is Hellenistic culture, and when did it emerge?

Answer 22

it is culture influenced by greek culture and it lasted from about the fourth century BCE until about the fifth century CE. this was when judaism and Christianity emerged

Question 23

Describe specific ways in which Greek philosophical religions have influenced various aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Answer 23

things like heaven, the golden rule, the afterlife and your spirt departing from your body and they were really influenced by Aristotle and plato

Question 24

What source of knowledge do the Bible and the Qur’an rely upon, but the philosophical religions never appeal to?

Answer 24

divine revelations

Question 25

Why is it no surprise that the Christian apostle Paul traveled from city to city, usually ignoring the rural areas?

Answer 25

because there were more people that were open to religious varieties

Question 26

Who was Asclepius, and how did he influence Christianity?

Answer 26

Asclepius was the son of a human mother and a divine father. so her was the son of god who preformed many create acts and everyone believed in him so Christianity needed to compete with him so the buffed up Jesus to seem as cool.

Question 27

What were the dying-and-rising gods, and how did they influence Christianity?

Answer 27

because they had gods that died and came back from the dead. Sound familiar?

Question 28

How is the Jesus of the Gospel of John similar to the goddess Isis?

Answer 28

they both started sentences with I am.

Question 29

Describe aspects of the Mithras religion that influenced the Christian religion.

Answer 29

baptism, eating bread and wine, the birthdate of jesus

Question 30

What four elements of Christianity have more to do with Hellenistic religions than with Jewish religion?

Answer 30

(1) a Savior who was given birth by a human woman impregnated by a god, (2) many stories about miracles of healing, (3) a risen divine Lord of the universe who invites his followers to a meal of communion, and (4) an initiation ceremony that marks the follower’s transition in status from non-believer to believer. In addition, like Judaism, Christianity was influenced to a significant extent by the Hellenistic philosophical religions.