Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 419 views

    How Religions Began

    Uploaded by

    Kelvin Paul Bamba Panuncio
    Farming led to the development of early religions as ancient people recognized their dependence on natural forces like rainfall and sunlight for successful harvests. They began praying to gods to carry out this "unwritten agreement" or contract, leading to organized religion with designated prayer times, places of worship, and religious leaders. The origins of world religions can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia and classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or monotheistic. Important dates in religious history include Abraham in 2000 BC, Moses in 1200 BC, Buddha in the 6th century BC, Jesus from 2 BC to 32 AD, and the founding texts of other faiths. Today, some argue that religion continues to fulfill a basic

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    How Religions Began

    Uploaded by

    Kelvin Paul Bamba Panuncio
    419 views12 pages
    Farming led to the development of early religions as ancient people recognized their dependence on natural forces like rainfall and sunlight for successful harvests. They began praying to gods to carry out this "unwritten agreement" or contract, leading to organized religion with designated prayer times, places of worship, and religious leaders. The origins of world religions can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia and classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or monotheistic. Important dates in religious history include Abraham in 2000 BC, Moses in 1200 BC, Buddha in the 6th century BC, Jesus from 2 BC to 32 AD, and the founding texts of other faiths. Today, some argue that religion continues to fulfill a basic

    Original Description:

    How Religions Began

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Farming led to the development of early religions as ancient people recognized their dependence on natural forces like rainfall and sunlight for successful harvests. They began praying to gods to carry out this "unwritten agreement" or contract, leading to organized religion with designated prayer times, places of worship, and religious leaders. The origins of world religions can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia and classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or monotheistic. Important dates in religious history include Abraham in 2000 BC, Moses in 1200 BC, Buddha in the 6th century BC, Jesus from 2 BC to 32 AD, and the founding texts of other faiths. Today, some argue that religion continues to fulfill a basic

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    419 views12 pages

    How Religions Began

    Uploaded by

    Kelvin Paul Bamba Panuncio
    Farming led to the development of early religions as ancient people recognized their dependence on natural forces like rainfall and sunlight for successful harvests. They began praying to gods to carry out this "unwritten agreement" or contract, leading to organized religion with designated prayer times, places of worship, and religious leaders. The origins of world religions can be traced to ancient Mesopotamia and classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or monotheistic. Important dates in religious history include Abraham in 2000 BC, Moses in 1200 BC, Buddha in the 6th century BC, Jesus from 2 BC to 32 AD, and the founding texts of other faiths. Today, some argue that religion continues to fulfill a basic

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
    of 12
    At a glance
    Powered by AI
    The passage discusses the origins and development of various world religions from ancient times to today. Early agriculture may have influenced the development of religion through farmers developing relationships with nature and gods. Ancient religions can generally be classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or monotheistic. Some modern perspectives are that religion provides security and comfort from human fear and anxiety, while others see it as primarily a search for security rather than truth.

    The passage suggests that early agriculture may have influenced the development of religion through farmers developing relationships with nature and gods as they relied on natural factors like sun and rain for good harvests. They may have carried out practices like praying and making agreements or contracts with gods in exchange for good harvests, which over time developed into organized religion with concepts like the sabbath, churches, and priests.

    The three main categories that ancient religions can be classified into according to the passage are polytheism, pantheism, and monotheism. Polytheism involves belief in many gods. Pantheism involves belief that all is god. Monotheism involves belief in one god.

    How World Religions

    Began
    Kelvin Paul B. Panuncio

    Beginning of Religion
    Could there be a link between agriculture
    and religion. The first farmers began to
    cultivate crops in Mesopotamia over
    10,000 years ago. Driven by necessity or
    just convenience, the nomadic hunter-

    Early Agriculture and


    Religion
    Farming manipulates nature, but at the end of the day both with
    the advanced farming technology we have today and as far back
    as 10,000 years ago we still need the sun to shine and rain to
    fall to produce a good harvest. And throughout the world today
    many farmers pray for a good harvest. It's not difficult to see
    that ancient man may too have carried out this practice, and a
    relationship developed between man and nature, man and God,
    a sort of unwritten agreement, a contract, where man pleads
    with God or prays to God for sunshine and rain. And as time
    moved forward it came to pass that this contract required a
    special day of the week, separate from work days, when prayer
    could take place. Also required was a special place where the
    contract could be honoured along with skilled people who would
    administer the carrying out of the contract. Perhaps the
    mottopray now, eat lateris apt. In effect we can see where the
    apparatus of organised religion, the sabbath, the church and the
    priest, may have stemmed from.

    Origin of Religion - Ancient


    Foundations
    The origin of religion can generally
    be traced to the ancient Near East
    and classified in three basic
    categories: polytheistic, pantheistic
    and monotheistic.Atheismis really a
    modern belief that resulted from the
    "Enlightenment" period of the 18th
    century.

    Origin of Religion Polytheism


    The origin of religion and polytheistic systems:
    Polytheism (a belief in many gods) is thought to have
    originated withHinduismin about 2500 BC. Hindu
    beliefs were recorded in the Bhagavad Gita, which
    revealed that many gods were subject to a supreme
    Brahman god.Polytheismwas also the religion of many
    other ancient cultures, including Assyria, Babylonia,
    Egypt,GreeceandRome. The ancient polytheistic belief
    systems viewed gods as being in control of all natural
    events such as rainfall, harvests and fertility. Generally,
    polytheistic cultures believed in sacrifices to appease
    their gods. For instance, the Canaanites sacrificed to
    the male god, Baal, and his female counterpart,
    Ashteroth. Baal controlled the rain and the harvest,

    Origin of Religion Pantheism

    The origin of religions and pantheistic systems:


    Pantheism (a belief that all is God) prevailed in
    numerous ancient cultures. The belief that the universe
    itself was divine was typified in the Animism beliefs of
    the African and American Indian cultures, the later
    Egyptian religion under the Pharoahs, andBuddhism,
    Confucianism and Taoism in the cultures of the Far East.
    Pantheistic beliefs are also finding resurgence among
    variousNew Age movements. Generally, pantheism is
    the principle that god is everything, and everything is
    god. Therefore, nature is also part of god. We must be
    in harmony with nature. We must nurture it and be
    nurtured by it. Mankind is no different than any other
    animal. We must live in harmony with them, understand
    them, and learn from them, focusing on the relationship

    Origin of Religion The origin of religion


    and monotheistic systems:
    Monotheism

    Monotheism (a belief in one God) is the foundation of


    the Judeo-christian-muslim line of religions, which
    began with a man named Abraham in about 2000 BC.
    From this point in history, God began revealing
    Himself to the world through thenation of Israel. The
    Jewish Scriptures record the journey of the Israelites
    from slaves in Egypt to the "promised land" in Canaan
    under the leadership of Moses. During a period of
    about 1500 years, God revealed what became the Old
    Testament ofthe Bible, relating the history of Israel
    with the character and laws of God. During the period
    of the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ was born in
    Bethlehem as the long-awaited Messiah. The ministry
    of Jesus ended in about 32 AD with His crucifixion and
    resurrection. After Christ's ascension into heaven, the
    Christian churchgrew in His name and the New

    Origin of Religion - Important Dates in History:

    c. 2000 BC: Time of Abraham, the patriarch of Israel.


    c. 1200 BC: Time of Moses, the Hebrew leader of the
    Exodus.
    c. 1100 - 500 BC: Hindus compile their holy texts, the
    Vedas.
    c. 563 - 483 BC: Time of Buddha, founder of
    Buddhism.
    c. 551 - 479 BC: Time of Confucius, founder of
    Confucianism.
    c. 200 BC: The Hindu book,Bhagavad Gita, is written.
    c. 2 to 4 BC - 32 AD: Time of Jesus Christ, the Messiah
    and founder of Christianity.
    c. 32 AD: The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus

    Religions
    today:
    Some observers believe that modernday religions remain largely a response
    to human fear. Their main function is
    to provide their followers with a feeling
    of security while living in a dangerous
    environment in which a person can be
    injured, killed or murdered at any time
    due to natural causes, accidents or
    human hatred and intolerance

    David C. James, rector ofSt. John's Episcopal


    Church & Diocesan Mission Centerin Olympia,
    WA, wrote:
    Many times when we think we are
    worshipping God, we are actually comforting
    our very fragile egos. Im not so nave as to
    assume that we build temple and erect altars
    to ourselvesdirectly. But our core need to
    been safe, secure and sound mandates that
    we construct reality systems that will support
    us.

    John Shelby Spong, retired bishop of the Episcopal


    Church, USA has written:
    "Religion is primarily a search for security and not
    a search for truth. Religion is what we so often use
    to bank the fires of our anxiety. That is why religion
    tends toward becoming excessive, neurotic,
    controlling and even evil. That is why a religious
    government is always a cruel government. People
    need to understand that questioning and doubting
    are healthy, human activities to be encouraged not
    to be feared. Certainty is a vice not a virtue.
    Insecurity is something to be grasped and
    treasured. A true and healthy religious system will
    encourage each of these activities. A sick and
    fearful religious system will seek to remove them."

    You might also like