What religion came first in history?
2007-10-26 12:27:34 · 10 answers · asked by collie-ollie 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The archeologists constantly find signs of human religious practices in all kinds of cultures in all times, the oldest religious stone age findings (several different kinds being at least 40.000 years old) being far older than any religion we know today. One of the oldest findings I recently read about was some kind of Python worship in today's Botswana (Southern Africa).
The oldest of the (more or less) organized World religions we know today (and that is still practiced) is usually considered to be Hinduism, although it has certainly changed a lot during the last five thousand years ...
2007-10-26 12:33:43 · answer #1 · answered by juexue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was and is only one faith. It is called the gospel of Jesus Christ.
IN the beginning, even before the creation of the heaven and earth, God begat his Son our salvation. And by the Son and through the Son by the will of the Father through the unction of the his Holy Spirit all things were created.
Jesus is the firstborn of all creators. He is the Alpha, Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and end.
So there has only been on faith, one Word. And no man cometh unto the Father, but through the Son.
2007-10-26 19:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by heiscomingintheclouds 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheism came before ALL religions. Christianity is relatively new.
2007-10-26 19:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by gelfling 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The oldest extant religion is Hinduism.
2007-10-26 19:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well obviously every religion thinks that they came first, and that their God created the earth in the very beginning.
2007-10-26 19:31:26 · answer #5 · answered by Pyro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say, as a teacher of Religious History, that it was most probably "animism". The belief of animism is probably one of man's oldest beliefs, with its origin most likely dating to the Paleolithic age
2007-10-26 19:32:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
animism was most likely the earliest form of religion
2007-10-26 19:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity came first-Christ.
2007-10-26 19:30:52 · answer #8 · answered by paula r 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jud ism! look it up in the bible ! Jesus was a Jew as was everyone else in that time! Christianity came after He was crucified!!!!
2007-10-26 19:44:27 · answer #9 · answered by meister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe hindu.
2007-10-26 19:40:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋