Why Just One Creator?
And anyway, we come to know of God by contemplating and making arguments as the ones I have made above. So surely it can’t be disregarded as a ‘hypothetical concept’. Of course once we accept religion we must submit to the book of God. But what about someone to whom it hasn’t reached?
There can only be two ways that the idea of other creators could be found as true: a) Someone has found some proof that there are parts of the universe that have been created by someone else. b) God Himself has told someone so. In Quran God is challenging anyone who claims more creators to bring forth evidence for either. I shared the ayahs above. One doesn’t have to read these ayahs as divine – the challenge still remains valid. “If our nature doesn’t conform…” is not a valid question. Nature is universal – it’s the code that we’re born with.
As far as the history is concerned, it’s not as simple as saying that majority of history is polytheistic. Polytheism within itself is a very complex subject with differences in soft polytheism, hard polytheism, deism, etc. At best what can be said is that there was a dark period in history when people lost touch with reality and started getting more involved in polytheistic practices, just like today people are starting to gravitate towards atheism despite it’s baselessness.
But then ultimately that chain of creators/ chain of causes/chain of movers would trace back to A Single Creator, A Single Cause, A Single Mover (The Unmoved Mover). Is this so hard to grasp or am i not getting something technical? 😂