what was the first religion and how does it relate to todays religions?

Question

fethmoe christianity wasnt the first religion, you are just dead wrong on that.

Answer 1

John M. Allegro says that monotheism arose at the time people started agrarian living, and had the sun as God. For the earliest cultivators of agriculture, the weather was life and death: if it rained, you lived; if it didn't, you starved.

Human nature made them want to influence such things, leading them to personify the weather in the form of the Sun God and the Earth Goddess. If all went well, the gods drew their cloudy curtains, and the divine seed poured down on the earth, which yielded forth her increase.

Makes perfect sense if you know nothing.

CD

Answer 2

This is a pretty good question since depending on your belief system, the answer could be very different. Christians would say that Christianity was the first one because in the Bible, God taught Adam and Eve after the fall, that he would provide for them a savior to redeem them from their fallen state, and that they should look forward to his comming. Jews believe similarly, but would say that the first religion is Judaism or some form of it. Those of other faiths would have different answers to that, and those who had no religious belief would claim something else.

Rather than make this question a time for some to ridicule others for something they believe to be foolish, we should take the opportunity to appreciate the variety of beliefs that will and should be expressed, given such an opportunity.

As for how that religion relates to modern religion I would have to believe that Christianity as first established at the creation exists in some form in todays world. The big question is: of all the Christan denominations, which is the one established at the creation?

Answer 3

Deirdree H is correct. The first religion was most likely some kind of goddess-worshipping (Mother Nature) religion. As time goes by, the role of man in a family became more important, therefore changes the religion as well as the deity they worship

Answer 4

The lst memtioning of religion is mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4. The Nephilim and their fathers later became known as Greek and Roman Methology. In Genesis 10:8-12, Nimrod is told of as construction of many kindoms and cities. Later these kindoms and cities became known for pagan worship of many gods and goddess. Today we recogize these gods and goddess but by other names.

Answer 5

Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open — following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way. Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. McKenna supposed that psilocybin's verified enhancement of visual acuity was instrumental in the human dominance over prey. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including a physical sexual arousal — and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave evolutionary advantages to those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet. McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds. About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed the mushroom from the human diet, which McKenna argued to result in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to pre-mushroomed and brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin. However, in McKenna's theory, the psilocybin-induced dominance of humans over other species remained, despite our supposed retrograde evolution.

Answer 6

Probably some form of animism, as archaeology and study suggests. How it relates to today's religions is in that religion is simply, like everything else in this world, changing and impermanent.

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Answer 7

The SUN was first. Walk in the light, he will rise again, the Sun of God, the Sun of man, the powers of Darkness, the light of the World, they that walk in Darkness, he that dwells in the Heavens, down BELOW, up ABOVE, the Sun shine on the righteous, he came DOWN from heaven, etc, etc, etc. The religion that Christianity absorbed is clearly visible.

Answer 8

It would have been some form of Paganism, most likely goddess worship. This is evidenced by all of the goddess figures found at archaeological digs in various places throughout the world.

Answer 9

Christianity was not the first religion! Christ did not come as the Christ until about 5000 years after Adam & Eve.

They worshipped God! They did not always obey, but they loved God.

Answer 10

The Church of The Fig Leaf-two Members.
Man"s effort to make Himself presentable to God.