Why did people stop believing in Zeus and start believing in God?

Answer 1

Some didn't stop believing in Zeus. The Pagan Gods are still worshipped today. But, the reason why so few do, is because when the "Church" finally took over completely, after the fall of Rome, they didn't like the competition out there... so they took care of it by trying to wipe it out. But, instead of wiping it out, they drove it underground for a while (not in the sense you hear so many modern Pagans saying they all worshipped the same thing.... that's such nonsense).

Answer 2

In Greece worshipping the old Greek Gods including Zeus was banned and made illegal for several hundred years, the Greek Orthodox Catholic church was flexing it's highly coercive muscles, only recently has this ban been challenged in court and there is now a growing number of Zeus worshippers once more in Greece.
In other words people were forced to stop worshipping Zeus by Christians.

Answer 3

Zeus was part of a polytheistic religion. Paganism was widespread because it was sponsored by the roman government as well as the greeks 2000 years ago. People started transferring to monotheism because the God in these religions (Christianiy, Judaism, etc) was much more forgiving and loving, unlike the pagan gods like Zeus with human characteristics. Around 380 AD the Roman Empire made Christianity the widespread religion, and that is why it is widespread in the Western world today.

Answer 4

According to what we "know" Yahweh (the Hebrew name for God) was worshiped at least a thousand years before Zeus was known.

So, one might ask why did people stop believing in God, then start believing in Zeus, and then return to God?

Answer 5

The apostles told them who the "unknown god" they knew existed but didn't understand was. People understood and changed their beliefs. It became so prevelant that those who made idols for the old gods started losing serious money and they complained to the Senators. That's what started Christian persecutions. Strangely enough, when you think how someone would die, more and more people became Christians. The banning of the old religion didn't happen for several centuries.

Answer 6

Because they were forced to. Pagans all over the world were forced to convert to Christainity or die. That is how Christainity spread in the ancient world...

And the idea of the Christain God came long after the worshipping of Zues began....many Gods and religions came before Christ and Christianity.

Answer 7

Because the society they were in made it illegal (and punishable by death) to believe in Zeus, adopting Christianity as the only legal religion.

Its all been downhill from there.

Answer 8

God was around for man to know long before Zeus. God has always existed.

Answer 9

Because they learned the true: Man made Zeus, but God made man.

Answer 10

properly if we stopped believing then faith might exchange into Greek mythology, straightforward as that. think of roughly it, why do you think of that Greek mythology replaced right into a faith one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and then became into an entire delusion? human beings stopped believing. What exceeded off to them? not something. I mean the characters of Greek mythology could be concerning to the characters of the Bible. to boot supply i'm going to supply it approximately one hundred years or so and faith will quickly be ineffective because of the certainty that technological awareness will clarify that that could be a extensive hoax.