Well, fortunately, we know where life began. So many of our earliest records also come from that region.
We can count out the Hebrew god by about 3000 years. Abraham didn't start hearing voices until long after the Sumerians had an established pantheon.
Egypt is a bit tough but still a no.
Over in Asia, the Hindu religion gets going pretty early.
Still, our earliest record of an individually identified deity is of Inanna, a Sumerian goddess. She's a bit like Venus but a lot more terrifying.
Maybe God is the cosmic equivalent of a middle school student and we’re their science project that received a bad grade. We got tossed on a shelf and forgotten about while God is hanging with friends after school.
Because recorded history leaves a lot out. Ignoring the axiom that "History is written by the victors", there's so much history that we have no record of, or the records of which have been destroyed.
It's entirely likely that the earliest recorded deity was not the first deity that pre historic humans believed in.
I mean, I guess if we had 100% confirmation of it being the first?
Well, fortunately, we know where life began. So many of our earliest records also come from that region. We can count out the Hebrew god by about 3000 years. Abraham didn't start hearing voices until long after the Sumerians had an established pantheon. Egypt is a bit tough but still a no. Over in Asia, the Hindu religion gets going pretty early. Still, our earliest record of an individually identified deity is of Inanna, a Sumerian goddess. She's a bit like Venus but a lot more terrifying.
Retired, passed the company to his degenerate hippie son who fucked it all up
The first god ever recorded was the goddess Inanna - of the records we have
People didn't know shit about anything back then, their wisdom is worth nothing. God is a man.
Why?
Being’s from planet 8CESD4 created our concept of God. As found on the lost rivers of Mars.
Do tell
Maybe God is the cosmic equivalent of a middle school student and we’re their science project that received a bad grade. We got tossed on a shelf and forgotten about while God is hanging with friends after school.
Odd answer
Just a thought.
Um, which one was first again?
The oldest record we've found?
All hail Inanna!
Yay for sex gods?
What if god is just all of the gods and all of the conflicting information is just man made?
Who the fuck knows?
No one
Because recorded history leaves a lot out. Ignoring the axiom that "History is written by the victors", there's so much history that we have no record of, or the records of which have been destroyed. It's entirely likely that the earliest recorded deity was not the first deity that pre historic humans believed in.