“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena; it will makes more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” Nikola Tesla.
You played this documentary because you want to reach the truth and your soul needs the truth. And because you know that the facts guide us to believe in and to live the truth, protect us, make us who we are, and lead us to our ultimate goal. That’s why people have tried to believe in the truth as much as possible throughout history, and the more true their beliefs, the stronger they have been.
Although in today’s world where lies are proliferating, religions, which are belief systems for many people; their realities have become can’t unknown. But in this documentary, you will see the reality of beliefs. Because scientifically, a piece of knowledge is either true or false, there is no in-between.
Then, how did beliefs and religions arise? Did someone come out and say, ‘Let’s worship something.’ and did other people like it and obey it?Did the whole world say, ‘okay, let’s worship these gods we invented?’Did people sacrifice so many people with stupid guesses to the gods they had invented in the past, or did they make such magnificent pyramid temples for gods that were not there?What was the power that made them believe this much? What was the reason for the formation of religions? For the Gods who answer prayers? Where are they? We will discuss in the upcoming parts the reason why religions are so similar all over the world and people’s entire social lives are? You have always watched documentaries about the origins of all these religions prepared in a very narrow and restricted field in a very short time. These documentaries, which describe the evolution of monotheistic religions from polytheistic religions, are always looked back to 3-5 thousand years ago. For example, 10 thousand years ago, the evidence before the flood, even the flood itself is ignored.Referring to the similarity between ancient religions and today’s heavenly religions, it is said that monotheistic religions were derived from polytheistic religions.
Again who and what the gods of polytheistic religions are and the characteristics of God in monotheistic religions are mentioned as follows; there is no mention of from what and how they came from, or where they came from. In other words, factors that constitute religions are not clearly emphasized. To mention, as we will mention and prove later on in this series; Syriacs (ancient Christians in Anatolia) were the first Christians to perform prayers. These prayers eventually disappeared after the separation in Christianity. It was the same for the first Jews as well, for their own; they were responsible for performing prayers at the beginning. Thou, their prayers had disappeared later on. So, what caused this change to occur in real life? We will present the proofs in a moment; what made it polytheistic by breaking monotheistic religions. Why did so many communities of people believe in these religions and follow them and even sacrifice their lives? What did people who believed in these monotheistic religions, in the past and today, have seen and witnessed? What was the driving force that would make people believe in many or one god?What we will mention and discuss in this chapter are as following; the fact that the polytheistic religions are the same all over the world without having any knowledge about each othershows that these religions have a source and this source is the same. Likewise, the fact that the heavenly religions, which you will see many examples of which you will see in this documentary series, are the same and the oldest monotheistic religions in the world are shown to be alike. Now we will see the evidence and the sources of religions that will lead to the answers to all these questions gradually.And in this series of documentaries, you will begin to see and understand the big picture in the world as you see these evidences like a jigsaw puzzle with each other. If we focus primarily on the question of what was the first religion and how this religion was; According to the sources of the 3 major sacred religions the first monotheistic religion to Adam was sent by the creator himself. So what does scientific research say about this subject?
Evolutionist scientists are that monotheistic religions evolved from polytheistic religions are proposed as a theory that makes sense at first sight. At the first, they thought that they had dealt a huge blow to religious beliefs thanks to this accepted theory. However, this excitement that developed in evolutionist scientists turned into disappointment over time. Because evolutionist theories about the origin of religion began to contradict with the actual data and was in a position to be criticized. In any case, none of the evolutionist theorists went among the primitive tribes and made observations and studies personally. They based their theories on the memoirs of traveler’s and missionaries’ reports. Later, research and general knowledge among primitive societies revealed that these theories were not consistent and also that there were examples all over the world that were exactly the opposite of what evolutionists had said.
The first serious objection to the evolutionist Tylor’s theory of animism came from his student Andrew Lang.
Lang, based on the latest information he had obtained about the primitive tribes of Africa, America, and southeast Australia, revealed that there was no animism in primitive tribes, but also the notion of a supreme creator deity believed to exist in the sky which was controlling people’s moral manners. In addition to this supreme God, who ruled the universe from above, who is the absolute power, who is regarded as the absolute good and worthy of respect, the existence of small deities and spirits that play a direct role in the life of the tribe was believed in. Another similar thesis was defended by Wilhelm Schmidt. After his ethnological research among primitive tribes, Schmidt stated that there was a single God understanding in the first form of religion. Schmidt put forward his views in his work “The Origin of the Concept of God”.
The results of the study of religions around the world, led by anthropologists such as Andrew Lang and Wilhelm Schmidt, showed that religions did not evolve from polytheistic to less godly, but were occasionally distorted. This information was examined in great detail in the journal Anthropos, which was published under the leadership of Schmidt and deals with the issue of the origin of religions. The most noteworthy point was that there was a single creator God belief above all the superstitious deities that these tribes believed.
that is, all pagan societies have two different god beliefs; 1- the god who created everything. 2- the gods who govern people under him.
Likewise, the pagan Arabs believed in God, who created everything, but regarded the gods below as intercessors.
Again, an ignorant Arabian says the following in his poem.
I swear to Lat, ‘Uzzây’ and those who worship them, also to Allah; for Allah is greater than them.
The Qur’an clearly denigrates their situation. When asked to whom the world and its rulership originally belonged to the polytheists, they said, undoubtedly, it is Allah.
When Stephan Langdon from Oxford University announced his findings to the world of science in 1931, he said that the information he obtained was very unexpected, because he was aware that these findings completely contradicted previous evolutionist explanations. Langdon explained his findings:
“Man’s earliest history, in my view, shows a very rapid degradation from belief in one god to belief in the existence of many (so-called) gods and evil spirits.”
Anthropologist Sir Flinders Petrie also says that polytheistic beliefs emerged from the distortion of monotheistic religions over time. Moreover, this deterioration process is observed not only in communities that lived in the past, but also today. Petrie says:
“In ancient religions, gods are found in many classes. However, such an approach is also used in many cultures today. For example, a Hindu enjoys living among the growing numbers of gods and goddesses . Others do not even worship gods, but worshiping animistic spirits, demons . If worshiping spirits was the first step in an evolutionary process that led to worship of a single deity. It would have been in this case, we should have seen the evidence that polytheism gradually evolved into monotheism . On the contrary, all we can see is that the belief in one God is always the first step. Wherever we can trace the belief in polytheism to its first formation, we see that this is a variation of the belief in one God . ”
The anthropologist Le Page Renouf says the following about the same situation in the history of Egypt:
“The formation of the Egyptian religion did not occur when many gods were eliminated and turned into one God. On the contrary, when the religion of Egypt was close to the belief of one God, it coincided with the earliest times of this civilization. The final stages of the Egyptian religion were the most corrupt of all Egyptian religions.“
“ we find Egypt in the last ages arrived at the most unbridled Polytheism.”
Edward McCrady said the following about the same situation when mentioning Indian history:
“ In the Veda, we see that the belief of one God is before the belief of many gods . Even after a very long time, belief in a single eternal God among countless gods emerges like the blue sky emerging from the pagan understanding that envelops the sky like a mist.”
“Original: But there is a monotheism that precedes the polytheism of the Veda, and even in the invocations of their innumer- able gods the remembrance of a God, one and infinite, breaks through the mist of an idolatrous phraseology, like the blue sky that is hidden by passing clouds. (p.559)
Again Axel W. Persson says in his book Prehistoric Greek, which is about the same situation in Greek history:
“The belief of the only God that existed from the beginning has turned into countless important insignificant divine personalities that we see in Greek religious myths. In my view, the existence of these many deities is due to different interpretations over time of different names describing a one and only God.”
In summary; The German philosopher Schelling, after studying the Indian biblical Vedas, says:
“All mankind was once a single entity and they believed in the only god. The oldest religion, star, star, were dismembered.”
“O believers!˺ Always turn to Him ˹in repentance˺, be mindful of Him, and establish prayers. And do not be polytheists ˹like˺ those who have divided their faith and split into sects, each rejoicing in what they have.” (Quran Ar-rum 31-32)
In other words, the monotheistic religion was corrupted and became a polytheistic religion. At first, people who worshiped God somehow started to worship evil spirits and demons.
All of this is a proof of, at least in all religions at the beginning, one creative belief had prevailed.
Such that it is possible to see the traces of the first religion and one common source everywhere on researches. For example; Even in the most ancient and oldest traditions of the most primitive and first tribes, Adam belief is mentioned;
In the legends of the Hawaiian Island Indians, Adam and Eve are described as follows:
the creator Taaroa created the first man from the red earth araea and breathed into his nostrils. He created the woman from the bones of the man and named her Ivi. ”
Again in a Tonga tradition, it says that “the first man killed his son’s brother”
Also in the tradition of Maori in New Zealand: “it says that the first man’s son killed his brother”
Even in the Gilgamesh Epic of Pagan Sumerians, It is mentioned implicitly in the form of Adam from Adapa.
The first human also in the Quran, It is mentioned about Adam and his wife Havva and also his son Kabil killed to Habil.
In a similarity again; even in the most ancient religions that are known, there are beliefs of sin and heaven similar to the heavenly religions of today.
James Churcvard, who studied the tablets dating back to 10s of thousands of years about the Sunken Mu Continent tribe- which is one of the oldest known tribes before the Flood- came across a text that says:
“I believe there are 8 ways to reach heaven… Here I must prove that I am free from 12 earthly sins”
Heaven and The belief in sin has been seen since the first man, and in the future, this belief in heaven in the people of Mu will be distorted and replaced by reincarnation.
The most important similarity in this regard is that the creative profile of today’s heavenly religions is similar to the creative belief in antiquity. The ancient period, the Naga says in the scriptures:
“The creator is incomprehensible to man and therefore he is neither illustrated nor named, he is nameless.”
This creative belief in ancient times fits us almost exactly to the creative belief described in the Quran today.
There is nothing like Him: He is the All Hearing, the All Seeing. [Quran-Shura Surah-11]
“No vision can grasp Him, but His Grasp is over all vision. He is the Most Subtle and Courteous, Well-Acquainted with all things.” Quran-Enam Sura-103. Similar verse in the Bible: John 1, 18. Similar verse in the Torah: exit 33, 20.
When America was discovered, the surprising similarities between the ancient Inca religion and the Christian religion also surprised the European occupiers. Many things were similar between the ancient Inca religion, which had no contact with each other, and the Christian religion, but for a reason we will learn later, the idea of Satan was discarded in the pagan inca religion.
It is possible to increase this evidence. It was even told by Muslim explorers that the natives in forests where there was no hatchet performed prayer-like movements.
“Someone has done a good job. You see, Noah’s Flood is present in all tribes of Africa. It also exists in the natives of South and North America of America. There are also in the northernmost Eskimos of Asia. Such a flood is mentioned in all nations in Europe and Asia. Now they say that this was transferred from one nation to another from one nation to another. However, there is such a fact that if a fact is mentioned in the books from the Prophet Adam or all over the world or in all religions, it shows the unity of this source. not crossing each other. ”
The information we have learned so far shows that all monotheistic religions came from the same source. Otherwise such similarity in the world cannot be explained by the fact that people invented or came up with the idea of religions. As a matter of fact, when we look at the history, we see that these religions have not been formed by people, but that religions were actually degraded by people, and we will see in more detail in the future parts. This case of coming from the same source proves why today’s monotheistic or heavenly religions, which always talk about the same things and accept each other’s prophets, are so similar to each other. Indeed, in monotheistic religions, the first versions resemble each other as if they were duplicates.
One invisible creator, the Hereafter, angels, devils, fasting, aids, good deeds, sacrifice, worship, belief in holy places, even holy places, are almost the same in the uncorrupted / unchanged monotheistic religions known today. Even the prophets that are believed are the same. The prophets of Judaism, Christianity and Islam brought similar religions with great miracles and revolutions, and today the vast majority of humanity belongs to these religions. Again, although people know only these three religions as monotheistic religions, according to the source of these three religions, monotheistic religion existed since the first man and was constantly renewed as it deteriorated.