religion ????

Question

What is the oldest religion known to civilization but not necessarily practised in modern times.

Answer 1

Zoroastrianism is the oldest revealed religion known to us. As such, it is intimately related to most other world religions; its doctrine lies at the very foundation of civilized society.

Quotation:
"Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed world-religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly and indirectly, than any other single faith." Mary Boyce.

Answer 2

Christianity started with Adam - so it is the oldest religion - Adam was taught to sacrifice - as were Abel and Cain his sons. This is explained when the sacrifice made by Cain was not accepted by God because it had not been dedicated for the purpose intended and he didnt respect the law on which it was predicated. Although it is practised in modern times most people do not live in accordance with its precepts therefore they do not practice it as it is intended.

Answer 3

People began burying people just to tidy things up and stop the smell of rotting flesh attract yet more dinosaurs... Ok, factually dinosaurs and humans never existed simultaneously, but hey. Religion was born mainly from people worried about what happens when they die. To help, many thought to create stories of new beginnings and such like. But didn't the Aztecs have a very early beginning? Or some tribe tucked away in Africa or South America?

Answer 4

If you mean religions sent by The God, *with messengers, prophets and sacred books* it's Juadism, with it's messenger Moses, and book Torah. Then followed by Christianity, Jesus as a messenger, and Bible was the Book. Then came Islam, where Mohammed is the messenger, and Quran is the book.

a Book is God's words to man, including instructions of morales, directions, and stories.

Answer 5

The gospel of Jesus Christ was revealed to Adam in the beginning and was restored to Joseph Smith in 1830. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints (mormons) is the same gospel that was preached from the beginning and it still exists. Check out lds.org for more info.

Answer 6

The oldest religion was "Cave-Man's religion". It had few dogmas like they will not attack/eat/kill their own clan. They will attack and kill male members of other clan and bring home their women.

Those who accept their clan leader as their leader will be spared from death, but would live as slave with the clan.

Are you not surprised that most of the religions are still following these dogmas ....just with a few words changed ??

Answer 7

Some sort of pagan belief, I'm sure, such as the Egyptian/Greek/Roman gods and godesses. I'm sure someone else could give a more precise answer, but I know it was something along the line.

Answer 8

Millions of years ago it is thought man created gods to explain the inexplicable – lightning, earthquakes, crop failure etc. Obviously these gods in effegy, painting and later statue form were found eventually to be ineffective. Therefore, the only god that people believe in nowadays has to be invisible, conveniently. This means, for those gullible enough to believe in him, that we cannot disprove his existence. Handy that!

Answer 9

Primal religion is the earliest know religion. These primal religions include the early Celts, Greeco-roman pantheons, early babylonian religion, lots of native american religions, ect.

Answer 10

The neanderthals buried their dead with things for a supposed afterlife. Early humans did so also. Basicly, there have been religions sence the start of the question of 'where do we come from?'