Were The Romans worshipping Zues at the time of Christ? Why no reference to This enemies Gods or Apollo?

Question

We hear of Baal-actually how many other Gods are mentioned in The Bible? Weren't the Romans worshipping Zues (The Greeks Apollo) at the time of Christ? They both had numerous Gods and yet I don't recall them being mentioned-what is mentioned is that certain tribes had other beliefs but what were those beliefs? And forgive me but please do not mention Christianity as it never appears in that form in either book (nor none of the sects that followed of were created after AD)hummm?

Answer 1

first of all, Zeus was the greek god, the roman equivalent was Jupiter.
as far as i know, both were being worshiped at the time.
as to why they are not mentioned i can make one guess. a good chunk of the bible was written specifically to appeal to romans. if you want romans to listen to you, you're not going to start by saying their gods are fake. you happily ignore their gods and let them come to that conclusion themselves. since most of the roman deities were identical to their greek counterparts and in fact basically adapted from the greek olympus, that meant the greek gods were ignored also.

Answer 2

A great variety of religions were in practice at the time that Christ was supposed to have existed. These include the Roman pantheon and its worship, the related Greek pantheon, a diluted form of the Egyptian religion revolving around Ra and other gods, the Norse religions centering on Thor, Freya, etc, the Celtic religions which include those of the Irish, Pictish, Brittish, Gaulic, etc regions, the religions of the Saxons which I am much less familiar with, etc. In the East and Far East, ancestor worship had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years prior and Hinduism and Buddhism had already been founded, and the African tribes and nations had their own specific religions which, yet again, I know too little about to speak of intelligently, although I believe that ancestors and spirits were involved in different ways.

Answer 3

Yes, the romans were worshipping Jupiter ( Zeus was the Greek God) at the time of Christ. Yes, they has the pantheon, and tried to include the Jewish God in it (interesting side note). Naturally, the C word which is not to be mentioned would not have been in the Hebrew scriptures. However, they do mention "church" prevailantly in the New Testament. So, one must wonder, where is that church? Especially since the New Testement has a pesky little verse "upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Mt.16:18). there's plenty of reading material in the history section on the worship of the romans and the greeks.

Answer 4

You haven't read the whole bible. If you look at acts, the word Christian was first mentioned at antioch. This is where the believers were call Christians. You will also find in Acts that Zeus was being worshiped by the Greeks. In fact, because of the miracles Paul showed, they taught Paul was Zeus. Besides, Zeus is a god worshiped by greeks not Romans, that is why its seen in "Greek" Mythology.

Answer 5

The One for Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll Your question is actually crap since there were worshipers of hundreds if not thousands of gods from around the known world in Rome. Fetish items associated with the Indian and Mongolian patheons as well shrines to Mithras, Marduke, and Egyptian gods have all been found in Rome and through out the empire.

Answer 6

Paul mentions in Corinthians or Romans the various statues that represented the many "dieties" including the unknown diety that he made known to them. It is in other historical writings that we find the actual names and attributes attributed to the various gods worshiped. Christians is mentioned in the book of Acts if I'm not mistaken as having been the first time they were called Christians - it was originally used in derision and mockery. But it is mentioned in the Bible. I'm not at my own home where I have my resources available to me, which is why I cannot be more specific with you, I do apologize for that.

Answer 7

The Romans worshiped all sorts of gods, including the christian one. Any one you can name they had some sort of temple or ritual for in hopes that their lives would be affected in some positive manner or someone elses life would be affected in a negative manner. It's no different now except there is less diversity.

Answer 8

Actually it is accepted fact by some religions that Hermes was a prophet, a messenger of God.

Baha'ullah once said that "there are more prophets than there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach."

(please note "prophets", not Manifestations.)

God has sent us messages, lessons, help, so on and so forth all along our existence. Since his children existed before Christ, even before Abraham, wouldn't it make sense that prophets can be named even before them?

Hermes.
Maybe a Celtic Druid?
Maybe the Greek Titans or the Sphinx?

So, what is more important: the messenger? Or the message?

The Chronicler

Answer 9

the site of the vatican was called the temple of janus. the statue of saint paul was modified from a statue of apollo. i suggest reading about augustine bea. you will find a strange tale of catholic christianity created by evil in order to control all other christian sect and to create the islamic religion in order to conquer jerusalem.

Answer 10

ZUSE....is still worshiped today by some really weird people.