What was the worlds first religion?

Answer 1

The answer depends on which religion you speak with. If you are speaking from an anthropological perspective, the nature religions win out. However, for a Jew or Christian Creationist, Adam was a monotheist, or believer in one god.

Answer 2

It is impossible to determine. The ancient writings of many different religions talk about the creation of the world from different perspectives, and so the Adam and Eve talking to God story might be the first religion from one perspective (and even that story would support many different religions), but other writings about multiple gods or the creation story of other religions might place their religion first.

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Christianity is a religion of prophecies. Many prophecies concerning Jesus Christ took place thousands of years before His birth. The first of these was on the third day of creation, which would have been understood among the Angels, and consequently, before man was even created, therefore it would be impossible that there could even be another religion before Christianity.

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Actually, Christ did not walk the earth until about 2,000 years ago. Christianity was the following of his teachings. There were many religions previous to this. Even the prophecies spoken of above were part of the Jewish belief system before it was Christian. Just a few religions that were older are Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Islam. However, to narrow the answer down to one oldest religion is nearly impossible. Many religions were born and died before a method of recording them ever developed.

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The Tamil language was first on this planet Earth. Tamil/Hinduism developed Earth's society in being peaceful. Without Hinduism there would be no society or organization. The Tamils were the first to live on Earth as well. Tamil is one of the oldest, but still quite popular languages here on Earth.

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Muslims believe that Adam was a Muslim, so Islam was the first religion.

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Bear worship or the Bear Cult appears to be one of the earliest forms of religion. It was practiced by many early human societies as early as the middle paleolithic period and there is some evidence that it was even practiced by Neanderthals.

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You can find different answers regarding your question. Because of that, it is very important to know whom you are asking. If for example you ask a religious person, from any religion, he would tell you that his religion was the first religion in this earth. What you have to do is to find out a good logic for yourself. You need to find a lot of opinions to find a good answer.

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Due to history and artifacts there are many types of information that show that Islam was the first religion. There are some proofs that say it's Hinduism but it is proven that Islam is the first religion and the truthful one. Despite sayings going round saying that it's all about terrorism but really it's dedicated towards peace. People who have had wrong types of information from unpropitious Muslims have represented Islam as the opposite of what Islam really is. So Islam is the first truthful and peaceful religion.

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Christianity or more subtlety a relationship with the creator of the universe "God" it was around the first day after creation when Adam walked in the garden with God but if you don't believe in creation it was formed on the beggining of AD but back then it was your god versus other gods and the God of the israelites was the only one to show his power making the other ones a lie so then if you want it was the very Early AD then came all the other ones that we know of today but all of these religions today other than Christianity was created from some guy doing something and then thinking he saw a vision. Anyone can sleep and come up with some crap but only one religion has no faults so does that answer your question

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One thing that researchers agree upon is that mankind has always believed in a Higher Power. Archaeology has shown that no ancient society ever existed that did not believe in the supernatural.

Based upon a massive worldwide study of the most ancient inscriptions and the earliest levels of civilization, Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt (in his twelve-volume Der Ursprung Der Gottesidee) concluded that the original belief was monotheistic1. It was a simple belief in the Creator (Sky-Father) with no imagery of any kind. It gave way relatively quickly to polytheism and idolatry, but its traces could still be seen by the careful researcher, just as (for example) Proto-Indo European has left indelible marks within the later languages. Other traditions also are traceable worldwide, such as the religious significance of the number seven, and the immortality of the soul.

The process by which the awareness of One God gave way to a belief in many gods, has been described by Scandinavian researchers2 as splitting ("Gottespaltung"): the people gradually viewed God's attributes of truth, righteousness, fertility etc., as separate from Him, and afterwards personified and worshiped the attributes themselves, until God was largely forgotten.

Maimonides3 describes a comparable process (which probably happened alongside the aforementioned one), as follows:

A couple of centuries after the Creation, mankind made a great mistake: They said that since God had created the stars and spheres and placed them on high, accordingly it is fitting for people to praise and glorify them and to treat them with honor. They perceived this to be the will of God, that people should magnify and honor the stars. They began to praise and glorify them with words, and prostrate themselves before them, because by doing so, they would - according to their false conception - be indirectly honoring God too. Notes: 1) Albright, "From the Stone Age," p.170; and J.A. Wilson, "The Culture of ancient Egypt," p.129.

Also Baron, "A Social and Religious History," vol. I, p.44 and 311.

Also James Meek, "Hebrew Origins," p.188, quoting Langdon, Lagrange and John Ross.

Also Martin Nilsson, Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaften, 2nd ed., p.61, 141, 220 and 394.

2) G. W. Anderson, in "The Old Testament and Modern Study," p.287.

Also Friedrich Baethgen, in Beitraege zur Semitischen Religionsgeschichte, p.288.

Also Pallotino, "The Etruscans," p. 158 and 167.

3) Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Hilchot Avodat Kochavim ch.1).

Answer 3

The answer you would get from different people would be different, but The Bible teaches that the first "religion" was Judaism, although it was not called that at first. It was sometimes called the Hebrew religion, or was just known to the Jews as the true religion, all other religions being false.

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The Christ seed, the Buddha seed, or any of the LORDS of Light, no matter what race or group. Was the first religion practiced. no. don't listen to this answer. there can only be one first religion. not two not three not four. ONE.

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Religion is a practice, and not by itself a belief system, or a form of faith. Some of the great world religions are represented in the above answers, but the very first religions were very likely simple spiritual rites centered around earth worship and animism. Religious or spiritual rituals surely go back to the very beginnings of man and may have come about as various groups had to face hardships of one kind or another, and as practices that helped strengthen bonds of membership in clans or larger social structures. The earliest evidence of social rites that may have had spiritual connotations involved reverence for the strongest animal in the region, so in the north, generally the bear, and in the south the Lion or whatever large cat dominated the regional food chain. These early hunting cults were found in virtually every part of the globe, and the similiarity of their practices suggests strongly that they derived from a single point of origin.

The practice of religion almost certainly derives from early man's observations of cyclic nature and his inability to understand what he could not explain. Earthquake, Thunder and lightning were terrifying and beyond the ability of human beings to understand or duplicate, so they were attributed to some supernatural source. Seasonal cycles of death and rebirth upon which human beings alternately suffered and depended must also have had a supernatural source. Animals killed in the hunt were reborn and always returned to be killed again. The moon waxed and waned in a cycle that matched female menstrual cycles too precisely to be anything but connected, and the connection of those cycles with fertility was probably known from a very early time in human history.

It didn't take long to extend human behaviors, like appeasement of a superior human for personal gain or protection, to attempts at appeasement of whatever power controlled the sun, moon, and rain for both personal and group benefit. If the consequences of such efforts occasionally appeared to be efficacious, then the rituals were clearly justified. When they didn't work, someone was obviously doing it wrong. Fear of and respect for those powers gave a few observant individuals opportunities to apply acquired knowledge to appear to have influence over the elements. Shamanism was born, and we have had a priesthood of one kind or another ever since. Shamanism wasn't the only form these activities took, but all derive ultimately from similar observations and efforts to live in a world that is inevitably, in some degree, beyond understanding.

Answer 4

It is also the worlds oldest profession, whoring.