What was the first religion that only worshiped one god?

Answer 1

Historically, that would have been the over 60,000 year old Vedic Hinduism which later degenerated to what it is now.

They believed in "Deivehah nirguna nirakara" a formless, devoid of relative qualities "force", if you please.

This is just for your information.

Of course a lot of people would like to say that the Judeo Hebraic Messianic Faiths, which began just a little over 6,000 is the progenitor of this Concept.

Peace.

ST

Answer 2

Atenism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism

oh, and I think one would have to make a distinction between monolatry (worshipping one god) and monotheism (believing there is only one god). Many groups in antiquity were probably monolatrists but decidedly not monotheists. One god was simply deemed much more powerful, or the god that belonged to the tribe, etc. It is quite likely that the Jews from the time that most of the Bible was written were monolatrous and not monotheists, but this is quite hard to prove.

edit: some people are too funny in their answers... christianity, islam... brilliant!

Answer 3

The superior culture and religious leanings of the peoples of India date from the early times of Dravidian domination and are due, in part, to the fact that so many of the Sethite priesthood entered India, both in the earlier Andite and in the later Aryan invasions. The thread of monotheism running through the religious history of India thus stems from the teachings of the Adamites in the second garden.

P. 881: As early as 16,000 B.C. a company of one hundred Sethite priests entered India and very nearly achieved the religious conquest of the western half of that polyglot people. But their religion did not persist. Within five thousand years their doctrines of the Paradise Trinity had degenerated into the triune symbol of the fire god.

Answer 4

Akhenaten IV started a movement in Egypt known as "Atenism" or "Amenism". A prayer known as "The hymn to the Aten" that he wrote is inscribed on a tablet that dates to the 1400's B.C.E. It represents the oldest archaeological evidence of monotheism in the world. What is interesting is that the wording resembles Psalms 104 very closely, as well as the similarity of how prayers were ended in Egypt. At the end of an Egyptian prayer, you were supposed to invoke the name of the deity that you were sending the prayer to. In this case, the believers in Amenism would have said "Amen" at the end of their prayer.

Answer 5

I think it was the Egyptian king Alhenaten (Amenhotep IV) 1369-1332BC
who decided their was only one God Aten, He had the capital moved from Thebes to a new one he called Akhenaten. When he died he was just about expunged from Egyptian history, temples were destroyed and his name rubbed off just about everything. The site below will show a picture of him etc

Answer 6

Islam is the first and ONLY religion that worship ONLY ONE GOD WITHOUT ANY DOUBT...Its 1 which is meaning ONE only..

Answer 7

Adam and Eve only worshiped God and they spoke with Him and saw Him everyday.

Answer 8

The very first religions, which were centered around the sun, were probably monotheistic.

So Sun Worship in general.

Answer 9

I'd guess either Zoroastrianism or the worship of The Aten in 18th-dynasty Egypt.

Both existed before the invention of the Abrahamic God.

Answer 10

Monotheism since Adam and Eve!