2007-01-15 21:06:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and does anyone know the first mention of any kind of gods (plural)?
2007-01-15 21:17:16 · update #1
PLEASE YOU CRAZY CHRISTIANS STOP SAYING THE BIBLE WAS THE FIRST MENTION OF A GOD IN HISTORY ... IT ISN'T TRUE! GET OVER YOURSELF
2007-01-15 21:20:51 · update #2
I am not saying "Christians do not answer me" I am saying "Christians STOP LYING", there was mention of god before the bible, this is a known fact. It's like you asking this question in Saudi Arabia and getting the response that the Koran was the first mention of god ever. It's just simply not true...I have nothing to get over, I'm asking for facts not fantasy.
2007-01-16 08:53:26 · update #3
A writing tablet in Greek/Phoenician dating from this time is thought to be "the oldest European alphabet, the oldest writing tablet extant, and part of the world's oldest book in codex form. The other old writing tablets are 2 from Nimrod, one ivory, the other walnut wood, dated 707 - 705 BC., in addition to a 8th c. BC Neo-Hittite wood tablet. There are earlier tablets found in Syria and Nothern Iraq that mention God but were written in a cruder form of writing much like Hyroglphics. Intrestingly the earliest actual mention of Gods were actually Monotheistic. One God, belief in numerous gods seems to have derived from that, not the other way around as was thought for years
2007-01-15 21:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by mark g 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
At the very least, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the earliest surviving book, mentions multiple gods. The earliest versions we know of are from 2100 BC-2000 BC.
I can't think why christians believe the bible came first.
2007-01-15 21:26:10 · answer #2 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
in world history or religious history?
in world history I think you will find the teaching of God (although the name was different at the time) began with the Jews in Egypt about 1700 BC(e).
those were th first known recorded examples of people worshiping "God"
There are carvings in some rock quarries in Egypt that have prayers to "god" for salvation. they date to about the 1700's BC(e).
there are also recoded records of the Egyptians mention the one god the Jews prayed too.
2007-01-15 21:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by Stone K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Recorded history the first mention of a monotheistic God is Aten in Egyptian religion.
Unrecorded is probably Sun worship. The idea that the sun is the great creator. It might not be what you mean but they are still ideas of the single God so there you are.
2007-01-15 21:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would have to be the Egyptians athough initially they were living in a polythestic society. However that same society produced the first recorded monothestic religion Aken Aten, cant remember the name of the guy offhand but his mother was Nerifiti (spelling?)......
2007-01-15 21:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friend you have to get over yourself & high fluleten horse., In Gen 1:1 IN the BEGINNING God Created the heaven & the earth. How far back than the beginning can you go. If you don't want Christians to answer you, don't ask us.
2007-01-15 21:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Human burials from between 50,000 and 30,000 B.C. provide evidence of human belief in an afterlife and possibly in gods, although it is not clear when human belief in deities became the dominant view.
2007-01-15 21:50:08 · answer #7 · answered by WPM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Celts etc. had many gods. Christianity wasn't invented until many centuries later.
2007-01-15 21:15:21 · answer #8 · answered by gelfling 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People used to worship big rocks that resembled penises. Not joking. This was a very long time ago though.
2007-01-15 21:27:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:1
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2007-01-15 21:12:21 · answer #10 · answered by mikerow992003 2 · 1⤊ 7⤋