http://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/04/07/heres-awesome-map-evolution-religions/
Just a word about the evolution of religion chart linked above. The whole thing presupposes a evolutionary worldview where monotheism is the result of religion evolving from the original and first religion of animism and polytheism, etc. But of course for Biblical Christians monotheism did not evolve from lower religious forms but indeed monotheism, with the God of the Bible worshiped, was the religion before the fall. Biblical Christians then hold that other religious expressions (animism, polytheism, henotheism, etc.) were a consequence of the Fall and not a beginning point from which monotheism eventually “evolved.”
Another problem with the “history of religions” school is that truth becomes relative. Believing that religion evolves means also believing that truth evolves. This introduces the idea of “process theology” where God and truth is constantly becoming, most often in conjunction with man and his interpretations (paging Hegel). The problem with this is that truth becomes relative to God’s most recent point of evolving. This plays havoc with God’s name “I am who I am,” which communicated being over becoming.
A third problem with the history of religions school ( Religionsgeschichtliche) is that it is doing theology in a anthropological fashion. It is “theology” from man to God as opposed to theology by way of God’s revelation to man. Religionsgeschichtliche thus is anthropocentric speculation on, and even creation of the character of God.
