What is the oldest religion according to timeline?

Question

I asked this question before and kept getting Catholic but when I research Buddhism, Buddha was alive 563 BCE

Answer 1

Hinduism (real name is Sanatan Dharam) is the oldest religion on earth.

It started with the start of humanity...that z why it is called Eternal Religion

Buddhism is an off-shoot of hinduism

Answer 2

Hinduism is the oldest religion. Buddha who established Buddism is considered to be the 9th Avatar of Lor Sri vishnu of hinduism, so Hinduism exsisted far far before Buddhism and other religions. Please read the excerpts from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

Hinduism is considered to be the oldest living religion in the world. Unlike most other major religions, Hinduism has no single founder and is based on a number of religious texts developed over many centuries that contain spiritual insights and practical guidance for religious life. Among such texts, the Vedas are the most ancient. Other scriptures include the eighteen Puranas and the epic poems Mahabharata and Ramayana. The Bhagavad Gita, which is contained within the Mahabharata, is a widely studied scripture that summarizes the spiritual teachings of the Vedas.

Answer 3

Likely Hindu but possibly Shinto. Shinto also dates to 600BC
Those that claim 1800 BC for Judaism are kidding because the religion did not begin before about 550 BC after the return from Babylon.But that does put it in the same range as the other two ancients.
This age for early recorded religion is not saying that religions might not be older and Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon sites are littered with religious fetishes. It is just that records are hard to find that are older. The religions of the cave men and even of the Babylonians and Egyptians hardly count because they are dead.

Answer 4

I think is Judaism.
The base for Chrisitanity came from Judaism. The Jews believed the Messiah to be a strong, military person, but the "future" Christians believed the Messiah to be a sufferer and a humble servant. That's the big difference b/t the 2 religions and based on that idea of the Messiah is where Chrisitanity was formed.

Answer 5

Archaeological digs of early hominids uncovered graves with small handfuls of tools being buried with them. Since tools were valuable for survival, it was unlikely that they were buried with the dead for any practical reason. Belief in the supernatural and life beyond death has been around for a long time.

For those who insist that Christianity or Islam existed first...you are wrong. Both the religions depended entirely on the words of their prophets and writers, and did not exist until after those written words had been codified. Before Muhammed there was no Islam. Before Abraham there was no history of Judaism or Christianity. Ancient, polytheistic religions existed oong before either were ever imagined.

Answer 6

Although today's Hinduism differs significantly from earlier forms of Indian religion, Hinduism's roots date back as far as 2000 BC, making it one of the oldest surviving religions. Because of its great age, the early history of Hinduism is unclear. The most ancient writings have yet to be deciphered, so for the earliest periods scholars must rely on educated guesses based on archaeology and the study of contemporary texts

Answer 7

Hinduism

Answer 8

Hard question to answer, scine religion appears to predate writing.
The oldest records of Religion I think come from Mesopotamia around 3100 BC. But, if you believe stories like The Odyssey to be (more or less) truth, as some say they are, they believed in gods about 20,000 BC at least according to the estimates for the age of the city of Troy.

Here's apparently a map of where evidence of religion has been found dating 20,000 to 8,000 BC:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/01/hm01.htm

Answer 9

Judaism is the oldest surviving monotheistic religion, arising in the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C.E. Abraham is traditionally considered to be the first Jew and to have made a covenant with God. Because Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all recognize Abraham as their first prophet, they are also called the Abrahamic religions.

An ancient wall relief depicting a religious scene [ enlarge ]


While there was always a small community of Jews in historic Palestine, in 73 C.E. the Roman Empire dispersed the Jews after an insurrection against Roman authority. Most Jews then lived in Diaspora, as minorities in their communities, until the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

Answer 10

One of the oldest religions on earth and was founded in Persia by prophet Zarathusthra (Zoroaster) in the 6th or 7th century BC.

He was born in northeastern Iran, but the prophet's message was to spread throughout the Persian Empire. The persian Kings adopted it as the faith and Zoroastrianism became the religion of the Achaemenid empire and flourished under its successors, the Parthian and Sassanian empires. The Zoroastrianism began to decline with the rise of the Muslim in 7th century. The persuation resulted in the migration of the majority of Zoroastrians to India.

Zoroastrianism stretched all the way from India to the mediterranean, but today it is founded only around Shiraz in Iran, Karachi in Pakistan and Mumbai in India.