When did man become conscious of a higher being such as god?
NEVER Nobody is ‘consious’ of a god… they just have faith (or believe regardless of a lack of supporting evidence) that a god exists. But your question is about monotheism In theology, monotheism is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. In Western context, the concept of “monotheism” tends to be dominated by the concept of the God of the Abrahamic religions and the Platonic concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The concept of monotheism has largely been defined in contrast with earlier polytheistic religions, and monotheism tends to overlap with other Unitary concepts, such as monism. Ostensibly monotheistic religions may still include concepts of a plurality of the divine, for example the Christian Trinity, or the veneration of Saints, as well as the belief in “lesser spirits” such as angels or demons.
As soon as man decides that this or that action is morally wrong, man has accepted the fact that a higher moral authority exists. This notion of a higher moral authority is the fundamental reason why a supreme being must exist. There are formal philosophical and logical arguments that are made as the basis for this statement that are too lengthy and complicated for me to discuss here. Keep in mind that God’s revelation to man began some 13,000 years ago when God communes with Adam and the first people on earth. The fact that others worshipped other “gods” only means that with the fall of mankind and the entry of evil in the world, a corruption of proper worship of God occurred. Moreover, Christ existed before He was born as a man on this earth. Indeed, Christ has always existed as the second person of the Godhead.
From the Foundation of the World. God made man write about Him. What is so hard to believe that God would want His creation to know about Him? In the Bible it tells us that Noah’s grandson Nimrod and his wife Semiramus had a son. Nimrod built the Tower of Babel. When Nimrod died Semiramus spawned many gods and goddesses for the people to worship. They worshiped the sun, moon, stars, grain, water, sea, fire, love, hunting, etc. There was a god for everything and they made little wooden or stone statutes of their gods and goddesses. They baked cakes for them in the shape of stars. They built temples for them and practiced all kinds of immorality inside the temples. For this reason God speaks strongly against idol worship in His Word.
