which is the oldest religion ?

[mainliner]

With all the conflictions flying around the world regarding the truth of the written word id like to try and decifer the truth about it by myself. ...... Or as much as i can understand

please bare with me im not too cluded up about religion


so....which is the oldest religion and was the religion after that based upon disbeliefs of the first ?


i would appreciate if we could keep this discussion to the (belief) of the which is the first and relationship between the second .....please ....... Just to keep it ( hopefully) simple.


peace

 

[Nietzsche]

In continuous practice or oldest discovered?

 

[Iti oj]

I've heard the Vedic paths are the oldest.

 

[YmirGF]

Timeline of religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note: Due to geographic considerations, disbelief in previous religions may or may not have been a factor.

 

[Thana]

Well, The oldest religion we wouldn't even know what it was about even if we could prove it was the first (Which we cannot).

I think what you're looking for is the oldest recorded religion that is still practiced today, Which I believe is Hinduism.

 

[StarryNightshade]

Oldest practiced faith still around today? Probably Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and various Folk religions (Chinese, Japanese, Bon, etc.).

Oldest belief system overall? I'd say Shamanism and Animism.

 

[roger1440]

Back in the olden days God was a fat chick.

Venus figurines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Twilight Hue]

Vedic paths seems to be the consensus for oldest religions still around. I suspect however that fire and natural phenomenon were worshiped by primitive man and gave way to the rise of more intricate religions.

 

[mainliner]

Ok wow so many different views
as there is religion before Christ .......im looking for the earliest written books with the usuall characters like Jesus etc...

probley with the first mention of mary.

 

[mainliner]

And why there was a second ?

 

[te_lanus]

Ok wow so many different views
as there is religion before Christ .......im looking for the earliest written books with the usuall characters like Jesus etc...

probley with the first mention of mary.

so you want the First Christian text with Mary and Jesus? I think that would be Thomas or Matthew's Gospels. For the first Religion with some sort of text, It might be the Sumerian text

 

[Valjean]

Depends how you define religion.

Could a chimpanzee's "awed" or "reverent" behavior in the presence of certain landscapes or natural features be considered worship or religious awe?

Might religious practice predate man.

 

[mainliner]

so you want the First Christian text with Mary and Jesus? I think that would be Thomas or Matthew's Gospels. For the first Religion with some sort of text, It might be the Sumerian text

was Christianity the first religion after Jesus and co ?

i think iv titled my thread wrong lol

it should really say " what's the oldest religion closest to christ"

its the conflicts between the different books that interest me ...im just wondering why so much difference yet all say similar things . And why other religions with different story's was even written after one book has already told the ( so called ) truth?

i had in mind the closer to Jesus etc....the more correct it will be ?

 

[mainliner]

Depends how you define religion.

Could a chimpanzee's "awed" or "reverent" behavior in the presence of certain landscapes or natural features be considered worship or religious awe?

Might religious practice predate man.

they could be considered worship or religion for a chimp.....if your a crazy man lol

 

[The Hammer]

they could be considered worship or religion for a chimp.....if your a crazy man lol

I see nothing crazy about that. It is actually pretty logical, that the basis for religion would predate us as 'homo sapiens', and start somewhere in our much earlier past.

As for an answer to the OP: I have none, was just reading and wanted to reply. I would say look for the earliest historical off-shoots of Judaism, and that would be the closest you can get history-wise.

 

[mainliner]

I see nothing crazy about that. It is actually pretty logical, that the basis for religion would predate us as 'homo sapiens', and start somewhere in our much earlier past.

As for an answer to the OP: I have none, was just reading and wanted to reply. I would say look for the earliest historical off-shoots of Judaism, and that would be the closest you can get history-wise.

we could sit hear and talk about " what ifs" and " maybe this happened" allday long .....but its nonsense really to think chimps have religion...funny though lol

 

[outhouse]

Aborigines have been worshipping the serpent for a very long time. Over 10,000 years I vote them.

The god El is probably the most popular of all gods ever with a 5000 ish year track record. With concepts still worshipped to this day.

 

[mainliner]

Aborigines have been worshipping the serpent for a very long time. Over 10,000 years I vote them.

The god El is probably the most popular of all gods ever with a 5000 ish year track record. With concepts still worshipped to this day.

interesting

 

[mainliner]

Does any one know when the first written word was about god speaking to someone?

 

[The Hammer]

we could sit hear and talk about " what ifs" and " maybe this happened" allday long .....but its nonsense really to think chimps have religion...funny though lol

It's not a "what it", we know that homo sapiens earliest known 'religious' views were animistic in nature, which is what the chimps in above post are displaying, things that have actually been displayed and documented, amongst chimpanzees and great apes.

EDIT: You want funny, try and make sense of the 33,000 differing denominations of christianity worldwide... Oh, never mind.