What religion is the oldest in the world today?

Answer 1

Although its foundations grew out of India's prehistoric religious beliefs, it only truly evolved into what it is now around 1500 BCE.

Judaism was first mentioned in the Merneptah Stele around 1400 BCE, but according to the Torah, it could have started far earlier.

If you try all of the other websites the majority of them say Hinduism with had no known founder but was said to be started by the Indus Valley civilization in ... well Indus Valley

Answer 2

Hinduism. The oldest monotheistic religion is Zoroastrianism.

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Although many people say Islam started when Prophet Muhammad(saw) came, this is completely false. Islam was completed,( meaning no changes can be done to it and no more revelations will be sent down), after Prophet Muhammad (saw) received God's final revelations. The truth is that Islam was introduced since before Adam's creation. God created this Earth and all that is in it, therefore, the first religion would be worshiping the Creator. The Angels did exactly that. After other creations came to be, they started doing injustice to their Creator by worshiping other than God ,the exalted, himself.

In Islam, the Angels are the only creatures that don't have free-will, like the humans,animals,and spirits. So, they are subjected to God's laws no matter what. All the religions that came after Islam have a chronological date because they didn't directly come from God, they were new religions. Most came from men that somehow became enlightened.

Christianity and Judaism, however, came from the same God as Muslims, but were only for the people the message was brought to in a certain era. As those religions grew outward, they became contaminated and corrupted by people who were not satisfied with the original message and therefore changed to suit their own desires. The Prophets (as) who brought those messages are Prophets of Islam, so when people claim that we are not connected to that message of The Bible and the ten commandments, it is contradictory to who we are. Remember Adam and Eve(as) both reproduced all the rest of mankind. Whatever was revealed to them also came down to the rest of the Prophets who taught it to their people. Prophet Muhammad (saw), however, was sent to all people from his time to the end of time.

Answer 3

Hinduism is generally considered to be the oldest religion still being practiced today. This ancient religion was born when the Aryan peoples migrated to Northern India and first put their religious tradition into writing. The texts they created are the Vedas, which were written around 1,500 B.C.E. and have greatly influenced Indian culture ever since.
Several other religions are almost as old as Hinduism. Judaism traces its roots back to the patriarch Abraham, who lived around 1,800 B.C.E. While the Jewish people are descended from Abraham, it was Moses who first recorded the Torah, the Jewish holy text, in 1,400 B.C.E. Most sources consider the date of the Torah as the beginning of Judaism.

Answer 4

Up until very recently, like just this year (2006), Hinduism was held to be the world's oldest religion, at least the oldest that is still in practice today. Hindu religious texts, the Vedas, are the oldest known written works on Earth and are seen by some scholars and theologians to be the basis for all contemporary religions. The estimates on just how old range anywhere from 5000 to 20,000 years old.