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MONOTHEISM AT FIRST
But the evidence goes further than that.
Two common petroglyphs represent the names of deity - “EL” and “YAH”. “EL” represents the abstract form of deity - that which cannot
be comprehended by man, while “YAH” is the Creator.
Both concepts represent a single deity - One God - but recognise the aspects of “knowable” and “unknowable” deity.
A successful translation has been made of the entire top row of the Colorado inscriptions, reading, “YARE HA EL”, or “PRAISE THE LORD”.
This indicates a monotheistic religious belief at that early time when there was still a global language.
It hints at an original faith inherited from the earliest ancestors.
The evidence shows that MONOtheism lay at the root of all religions. And this continued until shortly after 2000 BC when monotheism
began to degenerate into pantheism, polytheism and animism.
Careful archaeologists and historians (Horn, Faber, Rawlinson, Waddell and Budge, to name a few) insist, from their discoveries, that the
earliest Sumerians, Iranians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Indians were monotheists.
Those early civilizations recognised supremely one only God.
They knew also that there was an original prophecy that although man had messed up himself and the planet, and could not get himself out
of the mess, the Creator would ultimately send a Rescuer to cure all ills.
ALL NATIONS AWAITED HIM
This, the world’s oldest prophecy, which our first parents claimed was given to them, was handed down to all their descendants - the
prophecy of a coming Deliverer, no less.
Among the ancient Babylonians, Persians, Chinese, Hindus, Germans, British, Romans, Egyptians and others, there was an expectation that
this Great One was coming to cure all ills.
The Roman historian Tacitus refers to this expectation among the nations. (Tacitus, Histories, v.13. Suetonius, “Vespasian, iv)
Dupuis, in L’Origine des Cultus, has collected a vast number of traditions prevalent in all nations concerning a divine person, born
of a virgin - that is, without an earthly father.
He would come from heaven for the purpose of delivering mankind. He would lay down his life once for all, but rising to life again would
ultimately bring a new world.
This prophecy appears to be as old as the human race.
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