what is the oldest know religion? what does it compare to in time to christianity?

Answer 1

Hinduism is generally considered to be the oldest religion still being practiced today. This ancient religion was born when the Aryan peoples migrated to Northern India and first put their religious tradition into writing. The texts they created are the Vedas, which were written around 1,500 B.C.E. (before common era) and have greatly influenced Indian culture ever since.

Answer 2

Yes, the oldest is Paganism; and ancient Judaism and Christianity were the continuation of Paganism. Thus the ancient practice of burning dead animals to appease the Gods became the rationale for Jesus dying for your sins. There are many other correlations between ancient Pagansim and Christianity, but this is not a good topic for mixed company.

Answer 3

Christ was supposely born about 32 years before his death. He supposely died than 2006 years ago. The roman emporer invented christianity and formed the Holy Roman Catholic church 450 years later or about 1526 AD(after death). So christianity is a very young religion. only islam is younger which is only a generitic version of christianity. different prophetic, soem o fthe old messages gutted with soem og the mad prophetic mohammads message to form Islam.
There are many religions much older and wiser , and sensible than either christianity or islam.
The jewish religion from which both islam and christianity are derived is thousands of years older than either of them. Also at one time jews had many gods and until the invented the one god johova beleived that there were gods for evey thing or event.
The idea of one god is not over 3000 years old at the most.

Answer 4

The first man, Adam, was in perfect fellowship with God until original sin and the fall. This would be the first "religion", which ended before Adam and Eve obeyed the command to "be fruitful and multiply". So the religion didn't have any other adherents.

The fall led to the Babylonian Mystery Religion, aka Tamuz worship.

After the confusion of the languages at Babel, Abraham was called by God to the land of Israel. This began the next "religion", which is actually a new start to take up where the first religion ended.

You have to understand that there are four "patriarchs" that begin four "epochs" appointed to this creation. Each is born from something that cannot bring forth life, each confronts death and lives to tell about it, and from each arises a generation of people who become the focus of God.

Adam was the first patriarch, from him descends the failure of mankind culminating at the scattering at Babel.
Isaac was the second patriarch, from whom descends the nation Israel which ended at the scattering in 70 AD.
Jesus is the third patriarch, from whom descends those "born from above", we are very close to the end of this age, which will end at the resurrection at the last trump.
The First Begotten from the Dead is the fourth and final patriarch of the final age yet to come. Emmanuel (God with us) will usher in the final age will be the 1,000 reign of righteousness upon earth which will end with the release of Satan from his 1,000 year bondage and the nations rising in rebellion against the LORD and his Annointed.

The battle is never really engaged or fought, as the "elements will melt with fervent heat" as this creation is destroyed and the final judgment of all men occurs.

A new heaven and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness begins, and those who reject righteousness find themselves cast into the lake of fire. (Probably a singularity or "black hole").

Do I believe it? Hard to argue with fulfilled prophecy.
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Answer 5

Most reference books list Hinduism as the oldest world religion. This is probably because Hinduism has the oldest recorded roots, which lie in Dravidianism. Dravidianism is estimated to have been practiced around 6,000 to 3,000 BCE and as such predates the Sumerian, Egyptian, and Babylonian cultures.

Answer 6

This is a complex question where a variety of answers will be possible. I am a Christian myself and 100% beleive without doubt that Christ 's death on the cross was planned way in advance by God as it is the only way to heaven/salvation. To answer your question however, I once heard a missionary from Africa speak. He had been deep in the jungles and knew enough of the regions languages to get by. When he encounterd a tribe who had little contact with people outside of their secluded village, he feared for his life. Apparently the tribe was very aggressive and intended to kill him. (If I recall correctly they even were cannibals.) He shouted to the chief and peoples and then pointed into the distance, " I come from the God who made the mountain." Amazingly enough, he believes those words saved his life. The tribe understood and as they were already worshipping ' the God who made the mountain '.
You see, the Old and New Testaments both state clearly that God places the knoweledge in the hearts of mankind that He exists and is The Creator... a supreme creator .... (again... the God who made the mountain- placed in mankind from the beginning of our existance.) He desires to know us in a greater capacity than most people will allow. What a sad loss to not meet Christ. Our sin / wrong doings, died on the cross with Christ... and His outstretched hand awaits for every heart who will seek Him and His truth. When we seek Him with all of out heart... he 'promises' He will reveal his being real to us... (He does this, as this happened to me). God became a man on the cross... and in Him is life and eternal life. He walked with us to teach us and died for us that we might have relationship with Him. The amazing thing about God is that His love is so great for each of us yet He does not and will not force us like puppets to beleive in Him. He desires us to love Him. His gift is free to all who seek, yet if we do not open that gift we will never really receive it.... will we. I am so grateful that I have met the God who made the mountain. Wise men still seek Him.

Answer 7

There is evidence of religous activity in the Aurignacian period, c. 30,000 years ago. Cave paintings of hunts and stone "venus" figurines indicate ritualized attempts to influence fertility and the food supply, the two most crucial aspects of human culture. There is even speculation about the Neanderthals. Several Neanderthal graves have shown concentrations of flower pollen, suggesting that there were funerary customs indicative of a belief in an afterlife.

Answer 8

if you trust the bible and what is written there, it is messianic prophecy. as soon as the people were separated from God, He started the ball in motion for redemption:

"...and I will put emnity between you and the seed of the woman; and he will crush your skull and you will bruise his heel..."

you can say this is forward looking to the Christ, but mainly it is just a messianic prophecy that the seed of woman will produce an enemy of the serpent that will crush it, and in doing so be bruised.

Christians see this as Jesus because of the victory won over sin and death and the scars he received in doing so.


otherwise yeah, some pagan/pantheistic type thing.

Answer 9

Christianity was of course originated from Judaism. Judaism I think is dated at 1500-1700 BC... then of course there was religion for thousands of years before that in Egypt, Babylon, India, China and lesser known all over the world.

Answer 10

Guess if you went back to the Babylonian and Sumerian days, there would have been some kind of religion. But going back further, to say, cro magnon man or earlier, even tho they didn't have a name for it, religion would have existed and been practised.