Which is the oldest religion? Hinduism or Judaism?

Question

Do you know that some celestial events described in the ramayana during the the birth of rama have been accurately calculated by astronomers today to be over 9000 years old? There is a mention of two solar eclipses occuring within a span of 300 hours in that region and these have been plotted by astronomers to that era. And the Mahabharata to some 7000 years old! So is hinduism the oldest or what?

Yo Yo mama your whole theory is based on the Aryan invasion myth which has been disproved in academic circles over and over again. So stop bothering with it. Mueller himself apologised for the eurocentric notion of a blonde white race. The term "Arya" or "noble" has many references even in the ramayana which is now proved to be over 9000 years old. This proves that Arya refers to a sanskrit word for noble behaviour rather than a race. AIT is completely debunked.

Answer 1

Hinduism is older than Judiasm but neither are the first.

Answer 2

properly extremely you're proper... form of. Judaism and Hinduism are both the oldest religions that are nonetheless round. they are the oldest because no one truly is definitely-known with at the same time as they began (traditionally speaking). So there is not any longer one unmarried faith it truly is the oldest. that's a tie between Judaism and Hinduism

Answer 3

Hinduism is the oldest, but Jainism, a religion related to hinduism is even older. Hinduism is older than judaism, that is a fact, look it up on wikipedia.

Answer 4

Judaism is the oldest surviving religion

they are in the year 5766 I believe

more info..they are both kind of the same....it comes down to the GOD business:


Hinduism - The oldest religion, it may date to prehistoric times.

Judaism - The Hebrew leader Abraham founded Judaism around 2000 B.C. Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths (religions with one god).

Christianity - Founded by Jesus Christ, who was crucified around A.D. 30 in Jerusalem. It was after his death when his followers came to believe in him as the Christ, the Messiah.

Buddhism - Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha, in the 4th or 5th century B.C. in India.

Answer 5

In saying "new" he made the first "old" & faulty,
and fault-finding law notably had an expiry date,
and what's old decayeth, is also ready to vanish.
http://www.godshew.org/Hebrews9.htm

God did not send his Son till old time had expired.
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread9.htm
Perhaps you are being fed "spiritual" food poison.

Law is spiritual, but also "spiritual wickedness".
Grace also spiritual, but it's never wickedness.
When "comparing spiritual things with spiritual".
But that is only when spiritual of natural/spiritual.

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 6

Not a single Hindu idol/deity/temple has been excavated at Indus sites. Plus evidence shows that Harappans ate beef and buried their dead. This is what the renowned historian John Keays states on the religion of Harappans:

"The religion of Harappans is unknown. No site has certainly been identified as a temple and most suppositions about sacrificial fires, cult objects and deities rest on doubtful retrospective references from Hindu practices of many centuries later. Such inferences may be as futile as, say, looking to Islamic astronomy for an explanation of the orientation of the pyramids. In short, these theories are all fanciful and do not bear scrutiny.

"Depicted on some Harappan seals, is that of a big-nosed gentleman wearing a horned head-dress who sits in the lotus position, an air of abstraction and an audience of animals. He cannot be the early manifestation of Lord Shiva as Pashupati, `Lord of the Beasts.' Myth, as has been noted, is subject to frequent revision. The chances of a deity remaining closely associated with the specific powers - in this case, fertility, asceticism, and familiarity with the animal kingdom - for all of two thousand years must raise serious doubts, especially since, during the interval, there is little evidence for the currency of this myth. Rudra, a Vedic deity later identified with Shiva, is indeed referred to as Pasupati because of his association with the cattle, but asceticism and meditation were not Rudra's specialties nor is he usually credited with an empathy for animals other than kine. More plausibly, it has been suggested that the Harappan figure's heavily horned headgear bespeaks a bull cult, to which numerous other representations of bulls lend substance.

"Similar doubts surround the female terracotta figurines which are often described as mother goddesses. Pop-eyed, bat-eared, belted and sometime miniskirted, they are usually of crude workmanship and grotesque mien. Only a dusty-eyed archaeologist could describe them as `pleasing little things.' The bat-ears, on closer inspection, appear to be elaborate head dresses or hairstyles. If, as the prominent and clumsily applied breasts suggest, they were fertility symbols, why bother with millinery? Or indeed miniskirts?"

The Harappan seals depicting the sitting man/deity wearing horned headdress bears no resemblance with Hinduism's Shiva. Similar to this horned Harappan man/deity is the horned Celtic Cernunnos that was worshiped in parts of ancient Europe: With Hindu hegemonic claims would ancient Europeans also be considered Hindu since the Celtic Cerrunos looks very similar to the horned Harappan deity? By the way, it is the cow that's worshiped in Hinduism whereas bull has a minor role. Bull was much more sacred in ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures similar to the popular Harappan bull.

This is further supported by Encyclopaedia Britannica:

"The Bull Cult was a prehistoric religious practice that originated in the eastern Aegean Sea and extended from the Indus Valley of Pakistan to the Danube River in eastern Europe .... The Bull Cult continued into historic times and was particularly important in the Indus Valley and on the Grecian island of Crete. In both places the bull's 'horns of consecration' were an important religious symbol."

On the non-Hindu beliefs/customs of Harappans, Richard K. Hines states:

"Similar to the cultures of ancient Middle East, it appears that the Indus religion recognized some type of life after death. Unlike Hindus who practice cremation, Indus people carefully buried their dead in wooded coffins with their heads facing north and the feet pointing south. Included in the graves were pottery jars containing food and weapons for use in the afterlife."

And on beef as a common aspect of Harappan diet, Dr. Kamal Lodaya states:

"Meat was an important part of Harappan diet which included beef, mutton, fowl, fish, and other animals."

Clearly here was no Hinduism of any form in Harappan civilization. The earliest Vedas describe the religion of the Aryans who invaded in 1500BC, but that was not Hinduism either, though it may have contributed Ideas. The Hindu trinity does not appear until 500AD, and it's almost the millennium before we have the Upanishads, so I think the claims made for Hindu antiquity are unmerited chauvinism.

That said, Judaism as we have it today is post-Babylonian captivity religion infected with the dualism that characterized Babylonian religion since before Zoroaster. You can make an argument that the Persianized Judaism of the Bible originated with Ezra and Nehemiah. Certainly the notion of Satan as God's rival was not a feature of Judaism before the captivity. So you could argue that the Judaism of the Bible is actually around 2700 years old going back to the 7th or 8th century BC, 12-1300 years before the Hindu trinity and 17-1800 years before the Upanishads.

So I would say if we stick to the archeology and dismiss the mythology as we should, Judaism is the more ancient religion and the claims for ancient Hindu religion is just marketing propaganda.

Answer 7

Hindu is the oldest religion. I know this because I saw a similar question posted last week.

Answer 8

Judaism

Answer 9

Hinduism is older, but they both need Jesus.

Bless them all.

Answer 10

No, whatever pagan religion that inspired Hinduism is first. (I'm Jewish, and we never say we were first.)