Why don't Christians believe in Zeus?

Question

Xians do not believe in:
•The Greek god Zeus.
•The Roman god Jupiter.
•The Norse god Odin.
•The three main gods of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.
•Titlacahuan, the omnipotent Aztec god.
•Tlalchitonatiuh, the Aztec god of the underworld.

And thousands of other gods. No one has ever been able to prove that these gods do not exist, yet no xian believes that such gods exist now or that they have existed in the past. Thus, it seems that most believers in the Judeo-xian god disbelieve in claims about other gods even though the nonexistence of such beings has not been shown. They disbelieve in such gods because there is absolutely no evidence that such beings exist. They use a presumption of atheism.

Answer 1

They're all different names for one and the same concept.
So, essentially, everyone who believes in a supreme being would lean towards these names and ideas of God.

The truth is, in my opinion, there is only one God whether you like it or not. There are different names but it's all for the same Great Being.

Answer 2

Because they were born and raised in a society idiologically dominated by christians, they would be the same that would have believed in zeus, etc. were they had born at a place and time where that was the idelogically predominant religion

as you can see for the other replies the only answer they have to be is inside their own frame of reference, most of them cant even conceive the idea of the validity of the other gods becuse it would be a 'sin'

btw, there was a pagan god who died to redeem the world of sin before jesus chist.. I cant recall his name right now but he was from summeria

Answer 3

That's an interesting point, but because of the first commandment most people steer very clear of even thinking about the possibility of other deity.

One could say to another that they worship other gods, but note that they should be worshiping God, the Almighty, the Father, God of Abraham and Jacob, etc.

We Christians know and understand that our God IS the Almighty and nothing else can compare. Sure, there is sorcery, witchcraft and other items that exist in the world. We choose not to give them thought.

Answer 4

I love the bright bulbs in here calling Zeus and the other Greek and Roman gods "mythology." Sure, that's what WE call them now, but only because a Roman emperor decided that Christianity was the way to go over there...before then, Zeus and the other gods were their religion...just like Jesus and god are yours...perhaps someday Christianity will be mythology...

Answer 5

Thye are under exclusive contract with the jew GOD so are forbidden to believe in other Gods. Christian and Jew God are
the same ( jehovah or I AM).
Their God is very jealous and possessive. FOUR of his ten commandments are about worshipping HIM and him only.
he is worried about there being other gods that may steal away his faithful subjects. he syas THOU shalt not have any other gods before me. ( he wants to be first) he does not say that there are no other gods in existence. just that his subjects are not allowed to worship them.
This is a mere marketing ploy by jehovah and it has worked well. In business it is called a "tie-in". Just like you cannot buy coke at a pizza hut. you have to buy pepsi. the jews are great at this sort of thing so certainly their god will be even better.
if you want the benefit of the jew god, you have to buy the other things that go with it. The jesus thing is part of a spin-off religion of the jews that incorporates the first part of the old testament with a new franchisee, Jesus Christ. He insists that if you are not a jew and still want access to the benefits of the jew god, you must worship him as the only path to god. BUT, here is the great part, you do NOT have to be circumcized. this was a big stopper for recruitment in the jew religion Still is. they do not recruit a lot.

Answer 6

for the same reason you belong to the society in Australia and under no circumstances some society in Greece, in certain not some tribe 5000 years in the past who had Zeus as its "non secular image of team spirit", or extra merely for the same reason you'll wave an Australian flag and under no circumstances an Indonesian flag. The Abraham cult of the daylight from which Christianity originated, merely made it up on the acceptable through history, over-conquering different societies. different Gods are as genuine as societies which they reflect, exist. The societies which had Odin, Osiris, etc. lost their id and were given protected into more beneficial societies, contained in the Christian case into monotheist society. at the same time as a Christian asks you why do not you've faith in God, I wager you do not even understand what God potential in any given context. So, contained in the activity of fairness, in case you do not "count number on" existence (delivery, Love, lack of life) as phenomena of Universe, clarify us why and how is it because it really is; how those sorts of options interrelate interior their reason and result form, so we get the necessary idea of the that technique of existence without giving it non secular symbols with the intention to make some thing rational out of such huge complexity and in certain to get a contact what to do about it.

Answer 7

First of all there's no such thing as an "xian."

The Christian philosophy on God and his self revelation can be found in the book of Acts, when Paul addresses the Athenians (Acts 17:22-31)

People have long sought to fill the spiritual longing, what some call the "god shaped hole" in the heart. People started by believing in a vague form of animism, and eventually in tribal (and localized) gods. Even the bronze age conception of God that the Hebrews had grew out of an understanding of this kind - Genesis, Exodus, and 1 & 2 Samuel certainly seem to leave hints of an earlier time when Jews believed God was a local deity, one who lived in the ark of the covenant and tabernacle.

This form of belief was a little distinguished from Zeus in the sense that it was monotheism, but not entirely unlike it.

But as I recently read in Bruce Feiler's "Where God was Born", something happened. Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem and threw the Jews out. Forced to live remotely from the temple where they had believed God lived, they had to begin to conceive of God as a more universal deity - one who really created everything in a universal sense, and who is anywhere and everywhere.

That's the real difference between a primitive belief - such as the cruel man-gods of Rome and Greece - and a more advanced belief such as Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism or Hinduism. (Hinduism has an advanced theology on the divine, one with many analogues to Christianity, particularly in having a trinitarian godhead.)

Really, in a sense that truth is found in a religion and in its expression of the divine, these aren't different gods - just differently derived perceptions.

Of course, Christians are specifically concerned with Christ. He was here. He claimed to be the son of God, and proclaimed his unity with the God he called His Father. Those of us who are Christian are convicted by the fruitful life he led, but even more importantly, by the selfless and redemptive death he suffered. Those of us convinced of the utter selflessness of God really can't find a better avatar of that than Christ. That is why he represents to us - in every knowable fashion - God.

"No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him" John the evangelist tells us. The vague hints man had at who God might be, which found a faint expression in human mythologies, finally reached its apex, with God fully revealed in human form.

Zeus? The most brutal manifestation I can think of, of man's spiritual search. A manifestation, but a faint one.

But in Christ, God stands revealed finally and fully. He prepared a people to know him, and then he prepared their redemption. Knowing Christ is my joy, my Lord and my God. I don't just believe in him - I WANT to believe in him. I love him.

I can't love a Zeus. Nor do I want to. But Christ is everything I've ever wanted to love. Every man searches for the divine. For me, Christ is the fulfillment of my long searching.

Answer 8

Good question. It could be since they are monotheistic that they think there is only one supreme being. I think it's all overrated. No one knows for sure. You can't believe a book that's been copied and rewritten over thousands of years by thousands of different people. Each society has it's own intepretation. I say just believe in what YOU want and stop listening to what other people have to say. No one knows, so do what you think is right.

Answer 9

Christians believe in only one God, You may believe what or who you may. The Greek God Zeus is a character in mythology. Christians follow only one God, we may read books on greek mythology, but we worship and believe in only 1 God.

Answer 10

It stems from the First Commandment.

Interestingly, ancient Hebrew worship seems to have been henothestic rather than monotheistic: the existance of other gods was not doubted, merely the propriety of worshpping them.