Page 583 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

The pharaoh Akhenaten
believed in a single God
and had all idols de-
stroyed. He expressed his
belief in these words in a
hymn:
How many are Your deeds,
though hidden from sight,
o Sole God beside whom
there is none! You made
the earth as You wished,
You alone, All peoples,
herds, and flocks; All upon
earth that walk on legs, all
on high that fly on wings...

Anthropological re-
search has shown that
polytheistic beliefs
emerged along with the
distortion of monotheis-
tic faith. This is one
proof that no such
process as religious
"evolution" ever took
place, as some would
have us believe.

Frankfort's discoveries reveal very
important facts about how a supersti-

tious, polytheist system comes into being. The theory of the evolution of religions claims that polytheism
arose when people started to worship evil spirits representing the powers of nature. But it was not so. In the
course of time, people developed different understandings of the various attributes of the one God,
which eventually led to distortions in belief in one God. The various attributes of the one God turned into

the belief in several.
Long before Langdon had made his translations of the Sumerian tablets, a researcher by the name of
Friedrich Delitzsch made similar discoveries. He found that the numerous deities in the Babylonian pantheon
all devolved from the various characteristics of Marduk, as they called the one Deity that time. Research has

shown that belief in Marduk resulted from the deterioration, over time, of the belief in one true God.
This one Deity, Marduk, had many names. He was called Ninib, or "the Possessor of Power," Nergal or
"Lord of Battle," Bel or "Possessor of Lordship," Nebo or "the Lord of the Prophet," Sin or "Illuminator of the
Night," Shamash or "Lord of all that is Just," and Addu or "God of Rain." Over the course of time, it seems

that the attributes of Marduk became detached from him and assigned to different deities. In the same way,
false deities such as the Sun-god and the Moon-god came into being as the products of peoples' imagination.
Belief in Marduk, along with the other names of this false deity, shows that this belief system actually devel-
oped over time through distortion of belief in the One God.

We can also see traces of such perversion in ancient Egypt. Researchers have discovered that the ancient
Egyptians were first of all monotheists, but that they later dismantled this system and turned it into Sabeism,
or sun-worship. M. de Rouge writes:

It is incontestably true that the sublimer portions of the Egyptian religion are not the comparatively late result of
a process of development or elimination from the grosser. The sublimer portions are demonstrably ancient; and

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