Lord Of The Flies: Idea Of God
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As mankind has progressed throughout history, his idea of god has
changed with his domination of nature and nature's elements. When man made
the transition from a Paleolithic to a Neolithic lifestyle, his mastery of
nature attained a higher level because of the bow and arrow. With the bow
and ar ....
Middle of paper
.... This first god was still immoral and like
the humans, except that he could live forever and did not dwell on the same
surface as the humans, but god still lived in heaven, which was thought of
as a tangible place in the sky, and still was thought to be in the shape of
a man. This idea was challenged by another Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah. He
was the first to convey the message that god was holy, apart from the world,
and did not meddle in mortals lives. This change was brought about by the
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