When did people start talking about God?

Question

I need help I am doing a presentation for my philosophy class. My topic is "Is there a God". One of my issues is 'how did people start talking about God.' Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

I have a feeling it started right there in the Garden of Eden, since used to speak to them.

Answer 2

Probably the first word of the first human was some type of communication to God. Man was, and is still trying to figure where the heck he came from and where he is going in the cosmic trip towards infinity that each man & woman must travel. If he will only ask directions from God, then the trip will be much more enjoyable and he will no longer keep repeating the age old travel question of "are we there yet"

Answer 3

Talk about God is as old as the human species itself. The oldest evidence for culture, such as the cave paintings and burials, is religious in nature, anthropologists agree. A sense of the sacred is one of the things that distinguishes humans from animals. Don't believe those who say that the idea of God arose from fear of the unknown, or fear of natural phenomena such as thunder. The power of God, in anthropological terms, is the power of the community, the threat of human violence. What distinguishes the human species is that the greatest threat to our existence is other humans, not the environment, as with other species. God exists to defer the violence that threatens the existence of the human community. For more, check out the Generative Anthropology website: http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/

Answer 4

When did man start his search for God? From the beginning of mankind existence. This was an interesting thought form the book "The Story of the World's Worship" says about man"s language "Those who have studied the languages of the world and compared them with each other have something to say, and it is this: All languages can be grouped into families or classes of speech, and all these families are seen to have started from one common source" .
If this is true, something as basic as human language having a common source. Is it not reasonable to believe that mans ideas
about God and Religion also started from one common source.
It is not that all religions grew out of one, but that there was a common pool of beliefs that originated with a common language.
Language and thinking go hand in hand, Is there evidence to support this thought of a common source?
Mankind's beginning is believe to start from the Mesopotamia, Their religious ideas and memories went with them. Time, culture, environment and other factors shaped different relgions into what we have today. If you lay 2 different religions side by side, for example Catholic and Buddhism. there are different but similiar beliefs.They are similiar in what ways? Their rituals....
use of candles,incence.holy water, the rosary, images of saints, chants and prayer books, even the sign of the cross. They both have monks and nuns, belief in celibacy of the priest, holy days, special foods etc

As for myself, I believe the Bbles account of creation. That all spoke one language, until the Tower of Babel. The account is in Genesis 11:1-11

Answer 5

People would have had some conception of God a while back. There's evidence Neanderthals had religious ceremonies when they buried their dead, though whether that's paganism, polytheism, or you're true monotheism nobody knows. Look up Zoroasterism (or however it's spelled). they were close to the first true monothiests with Ahzda Mahzda.

Answer 6

The first records of gods are found in early Sumarian writings. The concept of god evolved from solar theology and early astronomy used to determine the seasons for agriculture.

Google on solar theology and astrotheology for more info.

Answer 7

Ever since God created us, duh.
By the way Christianity isn't a philosophy, Jesus is alive

Answer 8

God Himself, who is an eyewitness to our history and not fallible scientists working from a presupposition of evolution, says that Adam and Eve were the first to really mention God.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When they developed language. I think the concept came into being when people discovered there were things that happened which they had no control over (rain, snow, death) and they needed an explanation so they wouldn't go bonkers trying to control the uncontrollable.