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As we look back on Early Civilizations and highlight every contribution they have significantly passed on to us, there is one thing that vividly stands out and has had the most lasting impact: religion. In the beginning, the thought of an omniscient, all-powerful God that created life and controlled the universe was irregular and not believable to people. The reason for this pessimism was because the belief in one God could not explain why natural …

…first time showed compassion and ethics that was unparallel to any other gods. In contrast to Enuma Elish and the Hymns, Genesis spoke of Israel’s god transcending nature. He was the creator and master of nature. The Hebrew society may have taken this into consideration and strengthen what might have been doubts about monotheism. As monotheism emerged, there was one quality that the Hebrew god prized which did not exist in past deities: virtue.