What do religious people think about previous gods?

Question

I'm seeking your thoughts about religions and gods that predate Christianity, Islam and others current religions.

For example, what of the (so-called) Ancient Gods of Greece such as Zeus? And what of Anubis, Set, Isis and the other from Egypt?

Or the ones from West Asia, home of many of the world's most popular religions?

Additionally I'm curious what todays believers think about the old gods and religions becoming myths. Take, again, the gods of ancient Greece which are now disregarded as simple myths. Do you think something like this will happen to the major religions of today, say in 2000 years time?

Answer 1

I ask religious people this question all the time. Most of them seem to find it insulting that I would compare their belief structure to that of some ancient 'pagan' or 'heathen'. The key point is that those people were just as certain that their gods existed as people are now that their god exists. If one believes that they were wrong, then how certain can one be about one's own beliefs? Hopefully there will be no major religions in the future, and people will think for themselves for a change. Easy answers to difficult questions should not be accepted just because they are easy.

Answer 2

Hi. I am a pirestess of the Great Goddess, Isis. She is an ancient Goddess and has been worshipped longer than any other diety. Although there are not a great many people who worship her, this worship has been maintained now for almost 9,000 years.

Answer 3

Egypt, the only parthenon with a complete Set.....

must learn to resist those urges.

I'm all for them. Who's to say they are wrong and they don't exist? Personally, I find them more likely than God (capital G) god. They've been humanised, the same way God has, and now its just a matter of time.

Answer 4

I am a Priest of Cernunnos, the Horned God.

spirit of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. As a "Horned God", Cernunnos was one of a number of similar deities found in many ancient cultures.

and of

Nemetona ("shrine") was a goddess worshipped in eastern Gaul and Roman Britain. One inscription in her honour has been found at Bath, the rest in and around Trier in western Germany. Her name suggests the common interpretation that she was a goddess of temples and sacred groves, protecting ancient Celtic ceremonial sites held outdoors in sacred groves of trees. She is believed to continuously watch over sacred sites


i believe that every god that was ever worshiped is a true god. and i believe and worship around 300 gods and gddesses.

Answer 5

I am very aware of the ones you've mentioned. And, while I have my set religious beliefs & do not worship any of the ones you mentioned, that does not mean I am ignorant of them or of the fact that they still exist in today's society.
Knowing a diety and/or it's 'speciality' can make me more effective in my religion of choice.

Answer 6

Something like that has already happened.

The Egyptian gods of Isis, Osiris, and Horus are simply replicas of Semiramis, Nynus (Tammuz), and Nimrod. All the gods are copies of these three people.

Adoration of mother and child began with Semiramis and Tammuz. It is incorporated in the so called Christmas (the supposed birthday of Christ -- one of the biggest lies in Commercial Christianity. Christ does not celebrate his birthday.

Answer 7

Some of the old gods became the Christian churches demons, while others became Christian saints.

Answer 8

One day Christanity will be in the mytholgy section!

Answer 9

there has always only been one God,,,,one creater and one lord,,,man makes themselves gods ,,,but there has never and will never be any other God ,,,,He made all and is over all,, the beginning and the end,, no exceptions,, good luck

Answer 10

yes the same will happen, you will see Christianity questions in the mythology category...not soon enough if you ask me.