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Ethical monotheism
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Ethical monotheism is a form of exclusive monotheism in which God is believed to be the only god as well as the source for one's standards of morality, guiding humanity through ethical principles.[1]
Definition
Ethical monotheism originated—pace any claims of priority on behalf of Zoroastrianism[2]—within Judaism.[1][3][4][5] The concept is present in various other monotheistic religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, Sikhism, and Islam. All of these monotheistic religions include the belief in one Supreme Being as the ultimate authority and creator of the universe.[6] In Christianity, God is worshipped as the Trinity or according to Nontrinitarian conceptions of God.[7] In monotheistic religions, other deities are variously considered to be false or demonic, and it is believed that any other gods cannot be compared to the one that they respectively regard as the only true God.[8][9][10][11]
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See also
- Argument from morality
- Atenism
- Baháʼí Faith and the unity of religion
- Baháʼí moral teachings
- Christian ethics
- Comparative religion
- Demiurge
- Dhimmi
- Dystheism
- Evil God challenge
- God in Abrahamic religions
- God in Sikhism
- God in Zoroastrianism
- Jewish ethics
- Judeo-Christian ethics
- Maltheism
- Moralistic therapeutic deism
- Morality in Islam
- Natural religion
- Outline of theology
- Problem of evil
- Problem of Hell
- Seven Laws of Noah
- Ger toshav (resident alien)
- Noahidism
- Theodicy
- Urmonotheismus (primitive monotheism)
- Violence in the Bible
- Violence in the Quran
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