What did people worship before they made up/found out there was a God?

Question

I mean back in the day. Not you personally.

Answer 1

I think there's always been a basic curiousity about the Whole Mishmash of Things (WMT, as Douglas Adams would put it). If we take evidence from present societies, probably it was a form of animism, the belief that in general there is spiritual power to be found in places, objects and people, and thus religion revolves around finding this power, explaining it and using it.

Then again, there's evidence of far earlier civilizations - if you look at languages such as Euskara (spoken in the Basque region of Spain), Zuni (spoken in the Southwest U.S.) and a language spoken only by indigenous peoples on the peninsula of Kamchatka, there are astounding similarities between these three languages and yet they are unlike any other language on earth and do not belong to any particular language family. This means it is possible that they came from an ancestral tongue that far predates the spread of the Indo-European language family.

The sheer possibility of a culture more ancient than any we've found is nothing short of mindboggling.

Answer 2

Right from the start people worshiped God. As a matter of fact there was none of this wondering whether God was real or not, because God actually walked and talked with His people. And even the people that worshiped other Gods(false gods) acknowledged the fact that God was real.

Answer 3

They worshipped the 5 elements of Earth and Nature. Ancestral worship was just as important.The four seasons, harvest, souls of animals were sacred. The stars were writing on the wall.Keep in mind the people who wrote the Old Testament came out of Egypt, where there were statues of mortals being worshipped as gods.

Answer 4

God made man, so right from the start people worshiped GOD!

Answer 5

I don't believe they worshipped anything, as by definition "worship" means to pray to a deity. To pray to a deity means that people would have had to have a belief system in place, and that would mean that people would have had to become civilised before an organised religion would be possible.

Answer 6

God created the whole universe so right from strat worship God other choose not too.

Answer 7

It is kinda funny actually...if you ever studied Greek mythology and read any Socrates he pretty much says the whole time gods until one day he wrote god...and if you look at other Greek mythology the whole story of Jesus' resurrection is stolen word for word from the Greeks...study your Greek and you'll find out the bible is just a rip off job

Answer 8

Statutes{most of them},sun,moon,stars.....They was lost because that's the biggest SIN a human being can do in his whole life.Since GOD create human there was always one prophet with them{at least},to guide them in the right way.ADAM was the first human and he was prophet,so they just did not want to obey that' s it.And until now, how many people do?

Answer 9

No one is absolutely certain when people began incorporating a higher power into their lives. It is assumed that early man used gods to explain things they did not understand (lightning, earthquakes, etc.).

Most major religions today can be traced to roots in ancient religions.

Answer 10

Nature.. the sun...the moon.. animals.. some other made up God.

Worshiping is human nature I guess, and what exactly they worship is not that important.