Polytheism: A Monotheistic Religion

Prayer is regularly commanded in Scripture, which are the holy writings of Christianity contained inside the Bible. Prayer requires you to believe and have faith in God’s willingness and ability to interact with us. There are more requirements such as belief in his overall personality, and most importantly his personal authority of all things. Prayer is the action of crying to heaven, spilling out your soul to the Lord, making supplication, finding God, bowing your knees, and coming closer to God. When I pray before I actually go to sleep, I kneel on both of my knees, bow my head, close my eyes, and place my hands together. This posture is somewhat different from when I pray before I actually eat my food, just for the simple fact that I don’t

“Christianity is strongly monotheistic, professing faith in one God (as is Judaism and Islam).” (Darity 1). As opposed to a polytheistic religion, which is the belief in multiple Gods. “To understand polytheism, one must look at the base component theism, meaning the belief in "gods" as distinct from other types of powerful or supernatural beings (ghosts, ancestor spirits, etc.).” (Jones 1). Polytheism distinguishes nearly almost of the religions other than Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Praying aloud is an very important factor of polytheistic practice. Polytheistic followers believe that their gods are not preeminent, so they can’t expect them to read their minds when they hope to talk to them. “The polytheistic divine world is more differentiated, more structured, and often extremely hierarchized, because the human view of the cosmos is similarly differentiated, structured, and hierarchized. There are many gods because humans experience the world in its variety and manifoldness.” (Jones 1). They believe that they need to reach out with their voices. “When polytheism is superseded by monotheism, the host of deities is either abolished (theoretically), or bedeviled (i. e., turned into demons), or downgraded to the rank of angels and ministering spirits.” (Jones 1). Addressing particular Gods and praying audibly is vital to the