Is there any cave drawings that indicate this?
2006-09-28 04:57:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, there are plenty of cave drawings that indicate earliest humankind worshipped a goddess of fertility (where we got "Mother Nature"), and a God of hunting. There are cave drawings that indicate that the cave dweelers used a form of sympathetic magic to ensure good hunting by drawing pictures of the animal being hunted with arrows already in it.
This is where nature-oriented paganism (worship of a Goddess and God) derived from.
2006-09-28 05:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by Ana 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Religion" is a relative term. Most people I know, tell me that religion is "man's view of God", therefore however man understands God's Word and interprets it is correct. I beg to differ, but that's another story. If you want to know what man's first act of religion is, read the story of Adam and Eve again. Remember when they first realized they were naked? What did they do? They MADE CLOTHING for themselves from fig leaves which was THEIR method of attempting to hide their sins from God and think they'd get away with it! When God came to see what they'd done, He killed a goat to make a more appropriate covering for them to show them that only BLOOD could wash away sin. The fig leaves weren't going to be good enough! Therefore, religion is MAN'S attempt to justify himself by HIS OWN MEANS instead of what "thus saith the Lord".
2006-09-28 10:32:28 · answer #2 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion started when God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and Adam built an alter to worship God. This happened on the "sixth day" (perhaps a period of time of unknow length) of Gods creation of the Universe.
2006-09-28 05:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Religion "started" when man's intellect developed enough to question why things are as they are. Man then created reasons beginning with mythology.
2006-09-28 05:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by teacherhelper 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion started when "homo sapiens" became conscious!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
The origin of religion is fear!
Many will tell you it started in the Near East!
Little do they know or are willing to acknowledge!
Don't throw rocks unless you are willing to share your
knowledge of the afterlife!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
http://durkheim.itgo.com/religion.html
http://www.allaboutreligion.org/origin-of-religion.htm
2006-09-28 05:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which religion you are talking about.
Judiasm started at the beginning of time. Jesus came for the Jews, they reject him, now we call those who follow Jesus Christians even though he is the fulfillment of the jewish prophecies.
Islam is one of the newest religions.
2006-09-28 05:00:23 · answer #6 · answered by april_hwth 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋