Can anyone tell me about the origin of religion on this earth ? And which was the first religion on earth?
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It is generally believed by historians that the earliest religion(s) were animistic, which developed into increasingly complex polytheistic systems.  \n\nEven the Bible tends to support this idea --- Abraham was said to abandon his "idols" (e.g. polytheism) in order to establish worship of the One God.\n\nReligion probably originates in the attempt to understand and explain the inexplicable in the world.
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its worth looking at. i mean there is some convincing evidence that we did evolve from monkeys and other mammals. of course you can say god created man and leave it at that, but how can we move on and learn new things about the origin of life with that view? So i guess i will keep an open mind to both views
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Atheism means you have no religion, so it came first.  But it was only after man invented religion that we knew what to call it.
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In ancient times, there were religions way before Christianity came along. They all had many god/goddesses. And then Christianity came along and basically killed or wiped out anyone who wouldn't be forced to believe in one god.  It doesn't make it right.  It also means that there are other religions out there.  It al has to do with what's in your heart and soul.  Nobody else matters.
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It is interesting that, with the exception of the Mormons (an off-shoot of the Christian religion), no major religion has been formed since the age of modern science. Think about it! All major religions were created before people knew that the Earth is round. There was one fellow in Texas that tried to start a new religion. His name was David Koresh. We know how that turned out.
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God is not christian. Man invented religion not God.
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Abu  Gabal are you another Muslim trying to stop free speech?\n\nIt is a perfectly ligitimate query.  If you have no idea who or why then say so dont question the questioner.\n\nThe Earth was created by the big bang.  Life was created after that by the gases and chemicals etc,   The creation of the solar systems and other solar systems will remain a mystery for the time being. \n\nMaybe an early life force similar to ours happened in a similar manner billions of billions of years ago and they now know how to preserve the soul/spirit.  We maybe be at the early stages of similar.
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I don't think science is taught in schools as having "created" the earth, but it does attempt to explain how the earth came to exist in the first place, and I believe the same can be said of religion as well.  \n\nHuman beings have tremendous capacities for learning and thought, and we are constantly engaged in trying to figure out "why things are the way they are."  This often breaks itself up into two schools of thought: one religious, believing God is responsible for everything, and science, which tries to explain why things happen the way they do.  But I am one person who does not believe that the two need to be separated entirely.  \n\nFor instance: many scientists believe in God, and they use science to help them understand what role God played (if any) in the creation of the universe.  Likewise, many religious believers also believe in such scientific ideas as Darwinian evolution, which they believe help them to understand how God created the universe.  \n\nIn fact, if you read the two creation stories in Genesis carefully, you may find many similarities to what modern science tells us about the creation of the universe.  The first creation story in Genesis says that first was the void, which gradually broke itself into light and dark.  This is very similar to what science tells us about stars forming in the "celestial soup" following the Big Bang.  Then Genesis says that the earth was formed, but was covered entirely by water, and was eventually divided up into oceans and dry land.  Science tells us that this is exactly what happened. \n\nNow switching over to the second creation story in Genesis, God is described as creating the simplest plants and animals first over a period of time, finally creating Man (human beings) as his crowning achievement.  This is very similar to what science teaches us occurred under the direction of Darwinian evolution.  \n\nIn a way, Religion's notion of God may simply be another way of saying "How things came to be."  Where science says that evolution "created" the world as we know it today, slowly over a length of time, religious believers say God created the world, slowly over a length of time.  \n\nI certainly don't mean to strip God of his divinity for religious believers, nor to inject God into science inappropriately.  But I would say that with an open mind, you may find that neither science nor religion is "right" or "wrong" when explaining the origination of the earth, but may be two different ways of expressing similar ideas.
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I find it hard to comment on this, because it is clever, well scripted and I suspect the questioner at some point had a belief in the Christian faith. I would agree with all your assertions, taking hombrage with the claim that you created earth. God is in all of us and are all of us. Ambiguous messages from organised religion are the bane of humanity.
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religion was invented by people themselves
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A short story:\na young christian of 13 , asked his mother >>> what were people worshiping at the time of Adam, Noah, Abraham,......until Moses?\nshe answered >>> God !!!.\nhe asked >>> why we worship jesus then?\nshe answered >>>because it is written in the bible.\nhe asked >>> what will be the faith of the people before the coming of jesus ? \nshe answered >>> I don't know.\nSo, After thinking about this even more, knowing that there is\na religion ( Islam) that worships only one God , like the people\nbefore. Again ,he too believed this. And became a muslim at\nage 17 himself. Why? Because he could not accept or find reasons to believe in the trinity concept. None of the people before nor after any of the phophets believed in this. This belief\n is only in the bible( new testament) not in the old testament or\nthe Quran.Can we trust or believe blindly in the bible and ignore\nwhat most people on the earth have all believed.\n\nhttp://www.al-sunnah.com/muhammad_in_the_bible.htm\nhttp://www.muslimworld.co.uk/truereligion.htm\nhttp://www.thetruecall.com/home/\nhttp://www.islam-guide.com/life-after-death-by-wamy.htm
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(Note: I was raised Catholic and now consider myself agnostic.)My observations of religion throughout history:  Religion has always been there.  All religions give guidelines for how to live life.  Many people have died for the sake of religious beliefs.\n\nReligion has always been there...  How many religions (including all of the "extinct" religions) have there been?  How many do you worship?  Do you really have reason to believe that yours is the right religion?  Haven't you noticed that most children worship the same religion as their parents?\n\nAll religions give guidelines as how to live life...  the 10 commandments: dont kill, dont steal...   Yup that these types of things sound good to me.  Did I really need a list of things I should not do?  What about torture?  Why isn't that on the list?  Through education I developed a moral compass and a concious.  A way of knowing what is right and wrong.\n\nMany people have died for the sake of religious beliefs... This is my beef with religion.  It unites those within it, but it divides those of the different religions.  If its such a good thing why do so many die in its name?\n\nSo why am I not atheist?  I honestly don't know if there is a God or not.  Maybe God did create everything and is now on the sidelines.  I hope their is a God.  I really do.  My dad's passing was one of the hardest experiences of my life.  I hope he was not reduced to nothingness.  Still I must be honest with myself.  I DONT KNOW.  Anyone who says they do is lieing in my opinion.  If they did really know then it is no longer a question of faith.  Sure if I met God I'd worship him/her/it/them.  But I'm not going to blindly follow ANYTHING, much less something as powerful as religion.\n\nIf there is a God and they stand in judgement upon a person's death I do not believe that God will care if we went to church on Sunday, gave money to the church, or repented before our death.  They will care how we lived our life.  Did we try to improve the lives of the people around us?  Did we try to do the right thing?  Did we treat others as we wish to be treated?  And if there is this judgement followed by a heaven/hell, I believe I will be meeting my dad in heaven.  Until then I will try to do the right thing, not because of religion, but because ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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The history of Western science IS the history of religion. Science started as religious philosophy- the source of most science, education, and medicine in the Western world.\n\nPeople started to notice that the world worked in logical, predictable ways, just as a logical creative God would have made it, then sought to learn about the underlying rules of the universe.\n\nSometimes, one side or the other gets full of itself (sadly, religion has most often been the offender) and starts making proclaimations and statements of doctrine that conflict with what the other side is finding to be the reality.\n\nThe classic case if Gallileo saying the Earth rotates around the sun, and they both are moving. That conflicted the the THEORY that the Earth is the center of God's creation- NOT any Biblical statement, just a dry, human theory- more of a guess, really, since it was obviously easy to set up an experiment to disprove.\n\nWhen both groups recognize the purpose and value of the other group, without getting all huffy about things that cannot be proven, they get along just great!
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that is what you think? well we have different religions because all of us think that way. If we would have thought alike there would have been no religion at all. People to make their point in a different term, coin out a new religion and then people follow them.. and this continues forever.. The only true religion that existed at the birth of mankind and even today and even after all religions would cease to exist is the religion of Humanity....
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The theory of evolution (assuming you are lumping this in with the physics of the creation of matter) has the same initiation problem as the Religious one.\n\nWhere did the first matter come from?\nWhere did God come from?\n\nBoth 'sides' will say there has simply been [insert your object here]\n\nPeace out
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There were no other religions before christianity.  As there were no countries before America.   By the way, the bible was written in English, I believe by people with southern accents.\n\nHow can Christians know so little about their faith?
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Adam and Eve were the first people God created to be holy and to have fellowship with Him. Whether they were the first people or not I don't know. I wasn't there.