5/30/2023 0 Comments Duo meaning![]() In theology, ‘ dualism‘ may also refer to ‘duotheism’, ‘bitheism’ or ‘ditheism’. There is also a personal dualism in Christianity with a soul-body distinction based on the idea of an immaterial Christian Soul. Early Christian Dualism is largely based on Platonic Dualism (See: Neoplatonism and Christianity). ![]() The religious dualism of Christianity is not a perfect dualism as God (good) will inevitably destroy Satan (evil). Personal dualism is even more distinct in the beliefs of later religions. Either they fully participate in human life for Ahura Mazda or they do not and give druj power. From this comes a significant choice for humans to make. Any violations of Ahura Mazda’s order arise from druj, which is everything uncreated. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion that believes that Ahura Mazda is the eternal creator of all good things. The first explicit conception of dualism came from the Ancient Persian Religion of Zoroastrianism around the mid-fifth century BC. Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian Religious beliefs by the contrast of the Gods Seth (disorder, death) and Osiris (order, life). Moral dualism began as a theological belief. Duality with pluralism is considered a logical fallacy. More complex forms of monist dualism also exist, for instance in Hermeticism, where Nous “thought” – that is described to have created man – brings forth both good and evil, dependent on interpretation, whether it receives prompting from the God or from the Demon. This is also true for the lesser-known Christian gnostic religions, such as Bogomils, Catharism, and so on. Zurvanism (Zurvanite Zoroastrianism), Manichaeism and Mandaeism, are representative of dualistic and monist philosophies since each has a supreme and transcendental First Principle from which the two equal-but-opposite entities then emanate. which is also uncreated-is an absolute one. Moral dualism simply implies that there are two moral opposites at work, independent of any interpretation of what might be “moral” and – unlike ditheism/bitheism – independent of how these may be represented. Like ditheism/bitheism (see below), moral dualism does not imply the absence of monist or monotheistic principles. Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement or conflict between the benevolent and the malignant.
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