2007-05-08 09:31:28 · 33 answers · asked by Weird Darryl 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
fairy tales are fairy tales no matter it's snow white, god, santa or the tooth fairy, but i got my account suspended one time for saying stuff in the religion section (not cool!) so i have to behave myself
2007-05-08 09:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
No. If you were raised to believe in Zeus or Odin, you would think the God in the Bible was ridiculous, Just like Christians think Zeus is ridiculous.
2007-05-08 09:40:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What has Odin or Zeus done for you or I? Did they create the world, humans, animals, plants, water, land, sea, sky, etc.? I wouldn't want to base my eternal life on a mythological being. God is alive and well. Where are Odin & Zeus? Do they have a book we can read to base our lives on and do they answer prayers & perform miracles? So, to answer your question, Yes, belief in God is more reasonable than belief in Odin or Zeus
2007-05-08 09:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, because Odin and Zeus are much more violent and demanding then the abrahamic God (however the abrahamic God is still somewhat violent) these days they have virtually no true followers, it would be certain that vengeful gods such as the two you pointed out would have destroyed the world by this point, without their usual offerings being paid. (Thus, one can say that the chances of their existance are slim, without even looking at science simply by their nature).
While this does not make believing in the abrahamic God reasonable, it does make it more reasonable than believing in deitys that would have destroyed the world by this point.
To captain, This is true, however, the only way one could find out would be for all to stop believing and see if we would do something similar to what he did in the flood story.
2007-05-08 09:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
If it's allah, send me to hell!!!! hell's gotta be better than that freak. Odin is one of my gods =P so I would be perfectly happy to go there, but then I'd have to die in battle to do that... maybe one of the others? Frey? Freya maybe? Frigg would be a good one as well. Zeus is cool but Osiris is better, imo
2016-05-18 03:42:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the day, believers in Zeus would kill you for comparing their god to the other one...
And somehow, people don't understand that people once believed just as fiercely in Zeus as they believe in theirs today.
Edit - Mantazma - unlike Zeus, the Christians believe their god DID in fact destroy the world, AND that he will do it again.
2007-05-08 09:39:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God makes himself known through revelation. I haven't had any revelations from Odin or Zeus.
2007-05-08 09:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
YEA! if you want eternal life. See if Zeus or Odin can give you that.
2007-05-08 09:39:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nope. It's just more common and acceptable to believe in the Bible.
2007-05-08 09:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by midnitesky00 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you ever see the bumper sticker that says:
"Your god was nailed to a cross, my god carries a hammer...any questions?"
There's no objective reason to believe in the god of the Bible over the gods of the Eddas. Christianity spread among the pagans because it was a more organized form of religion that allowed certain people to gain political power and control.
2007-05-08 09:38:09 · answer #10 · answered by Sir N. Neti 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The only difference is that one God created everything and the others are just cultural beliefs from certain regions of the world.
2007-05-08 09:35:25 · answer #11 · answered by teamjesus_ca 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋