Concept of Divinity in Judaic, Sumerian and Hindu Society

Divinity is the core of each(a) religions and run most societies. Socialization base on god occurs almost everywhere. about of the acceptable behaviors we spend a penny been taught since infancy have religious roots. I lead comparability and contrast the sentiments of divinity in Judaical, Sumerian and Hindoo culture, based on Genesis, The large of Gilgamesh and The Ramayana of Valmiki, respectively. Judging by the literature, the Judaic concept of divinity representmed to be both polytheistic and mo nonheistic.I conclude there were eight-fold deitys by several passages in Genesis including when matinee idol said, Let us make a hu gay in our image, by our need wellness, and in play where it reads and one daylight, the sons of divinity indicating a belief in multiple gods. Mo nonheism is orderd elsewhere passim Genesis, including in Creation when graven image, not gods, created heaven and humanity, and throughout communication channel where the title characte r seems monotheistic. He says things like, The LORD has given and the LORD has taken. whitethorn the LORDs name be b slighted. I do, however, see more evidence of monotheism than polytheism in Judaic culture.The Hindu and Sumerian are polytheistic concepts. The Hindus had multiple gods, like Brahma, the god of creation, Visnu, the god of preservation, and Siva, the god of redemption, from the Ramayana of Valmiki firearm the Sumerians, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, had Ea, Anu, Adad, Errakal, Shamash, Ninurta and Istar, among others. The Judaic paragon, from Genesis, was a vengeful entity as evidenced afterwards the serpent hoodwinked eve into eating and bountiful hug drug fruit from the maneuver of knowledge, cheeseparing and evil. All terzetto involved were firmly punished severely. god told the serpent Because you have do this, cursed be you of both oxen and all beasts of the field. On your belly shall you go and carcass shall you eat all the old age of your life. Enmit y allow I stage mingled with you and the woman, between your seed and hers. He ordain boot your head and you will bite his heel. He said to Eve, I will terribly sharpen your blood line pangs, in pain shall you bear children. And for your man shall be your longing and he shall rule all over you. And to Adam he said, curse be the soil for your sake, with pangs shall you eat from it all the days of your life.Thorn and thistle shall it sprout for you and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow shall you eat lollipop till you return to the soil, for from there you were taken, for dust you ate and to dust shall you return. The Sumerian gods were likewise pretty vengeful. I say this because of the gigantic flood to wipe out the human (except Utanapishtim and his wife) because the gods felt man was out of withstand and needed to be purged from Earth. Utanapishtim was discourageed by Ea (or Shamash) of the impend flood, told to build a boat, and not to warn the people of Shuruppak of the impending flood.The Hindu gods seemed less vengeful due to karma if you follow dharma, karma would advantage you. If you stray from the path of dharma, karma would punish you and so, the gods did not need to be vengeful. This leads me to the conclusion that the Sumerian gods were followed out of fear exactly the Hindu gods were followed out of faith in dharma. The Judaic concept is a combination of the two. military personnel initially obeyed God out of fear, but eventually (at the end of Job), obedience was faith-based. humanity and God developed faith in each other.There was gratis(p) will in Judaic society, evidenced by God saying to Adam, From every fruit of the tend you may surely eat. But from the tree of knowledge, good and evil, you shall not eat, for on the day you eat from it, you are doomed to die. This allowed Adam to make a choice thus giving him free will. I set out evidence of fate and free will in Sumerian society. Gilga mesh encountered several instances where he made decisions without knowing there were consequences (indicating fate) and encountered the ira of the gods. An example is when he rebuffed the goddess Ishtars wish to marry him.He knew not what the consequences would be forward. Ishtar was so dejected by the rejection that she (unsuccessfully) sent the counterfeit of Heaven to kill him. I see evidence of free will when Enkidu urged Gilgamesh to collide with Humbaba, saying in part, Finish him eat up for the kill, put him out of existence, before Enlil the maiden one hears of this The great gods will bring to pass angry with us, indicating he knew beforehand the gods would not be happy with Humbabas slaying (indicating free will). In the Hindu concept, there was as well no free will you were to follow dharma.This was illustrated by Ramas response to his mother, Kausalya, when she objected to his banishment to the Dandaka forest for xiv years and asked that he take her with him. H e said to her, Mother, that would be extreme stiffness towards convey. So long as father lives, please serve him this is the eternal religion. To a woman her keep up is verily god himself. He was willing to follow the poofs will to follow dharma and unbroken his mother on the path of dharma, as well. There was evidence of all three cultures of their gods communicate directly to man.In the Judaic view, God spoke directly to Adam and Eve not through a proxy. subsequently God created them, He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and conquer it, and hold sway over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the empyrean and every beast that crawls upon the earth. There is also evidence in Job that God spoke directly to man, like when He answered Job from the whirlwind, Who is this who darkens counsel In Sumerian culture, the gods speak directly to the humans as evidenced by Ishtar propositioning him thusly, Come, Gilgamesh, you shall be my hostlerGive, oh give me of your lusciousness You shall be my husband and I shall be your wife. Hindu divinity had gods communicating with humans, also. The god, Lord Visnu, who took the form of Rama to get down the evil Ravana, regularly interacted and communicated with mortals throughout The Ramayana of Valmiki. The gods in Judaic and Sumerian culture seemed to be very petty and immature, behaviorally. The story of Job is an example of the Judaic gods immaturity, when God allowed the Adversary to torture Job to prove his faith in God.This was teensy more than showing off, because he had no reason to test Jobs faith. Some Sumerian gods were also petty. Ishtar, as mentioned earlier, made the puerile decision to relax the Bull of Heaven on Gilgamesh in a failed attempt to kill him for twist down her proposal. The Hindu gods do not seem as immature as the others, but they can make sturdy decisions based on emotion. Visnu (in the form of Rama), for example, was so angry when Sita was kidnapped (he though t a goliath had eaten her), he threatened to kill all living things.He said in part, I shall set aside all these virtues and the cosmea shall witness my supreme glory which will bring about the destruction of all creatures, including the demons. In this paper, I have compared and contrasted the similarities of and differences between the Judaic, Sumerian and Hindu concepts of divinity. These concepts have many an(prenominal) similarities and several distinct differences. I am hopeful I have sufficiently illustrated these common and unique divine attributes of religion.