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A History Of the Gods is a 12th grade Religious Studies paper written by Noaj of Wemyss. It is an observation of the progression of Monotheism among Polytheistic belief systems. It begins its observations of Polytheism with no clear start date in history or prehistory, however charts the beginning of historically recorded Monotheism to around the year -2000 with the birth of Abraham. Noaj in the paper goes to great lengths to contrast the differences of Abrahamic Monotheism from Polytheism, mentioning the birth of the Israelites who Noaj describes to be descendants of Abraham. The paper then goes on to document the split of the church from the synagogue in the first century AD and show its similarities to older Polytheistic beliefs in contrast to Judaism, the religion of the ancient Israelites and modern day Jewish people. He cites Christ myth theory as a possible explanation for why Early Christianity, in his opinion, contained Polytheistic beliefs and goes on to state the reasons why Jesus Christ was rejected as the messiah by the 1st century Jews.

The paper was seen as controversial by his professor who viewed it as too anti-Christian. The professor then suggested edits to make the paper sound less condemning of Early Christianity which Noaj made. The grade he received for this paper was "A." This paper was written during Noaj's investigation of theology.