is greet mythology against Christian religion?

Answer 1

How can MYTHOLOGY be against the Christian religion?

Greek MYTHOLOGY predates the Christian religion (c. 900-800 BCE onward).

& one of the definitions of MYTHOLOGY is: a set of stories, traditions, or beliefs associated with a particular group or the history of an event, arising naturally or deliberately fostered.


...Why must you Christians always act like people are against you? Must you always pick a fight? Seriously.. I'm surprised there aren't Christians bashing Jewish beliefs since they don't believe Jesus Christ was the Messiah... & Hindus have a polytheistic religion where they worship many different gods, etc...

Answer 2

Greek mythology is very different theologically from the Christian religion. It presents multiple gods, allows human sacrifices, temple prostitution, drunkeness, and other actions that the Christian religion opposes. The greek gods suffered from the same sins and disorders as humans, fighting each other, etc. So there is little agreement between the two.

If you are asking if reading Greek mythology is against the Christian religion, that is another question. If read as literature and not believed, if read to get an understanding of the culture and beliefs of those people, if read just to laught at how crasy some of it is, then it is not wrong. No different from reading (or seeing the movies for) something like Lord of the Rings. Or the Matrix movies with their "religious" themes or the Star Wars movie with the "Force". Or even the Harry Potter books (have read all 6, and liked the first 3).

I doubt that reading Greek mythology is going to turn you against your Christian faith, or somehow make you in a heathen. But at the same time, it is probably not going to do anything to help your Christian faith either.

Answer 3

Not exactly. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that it "anticipated" it.

Greek myths and actual belief in a number of "gods" was developed long before Christ walked, so they weren't in "competition." But there are 2 aspects of Greek religious thinking which transferred rather nicely into the framework of Christian belief.

If you read Plato's stories about his teacher -Socrates- you'll see right away that Socrates believed that "truth" and "perfection" came from higher sources -God, in fact- and that what we saw around us in terms of human perception sort of hinted at what the real story was. Thus, beautiful architecture, sculpture or music was regarded as such because it reflected something of a "higher order." The idea caught on, so much so that the Greeks discovered the "golden mean," that is, the most pleasing relationship of one part of something with another. For example, the Parthenon -that crumbling old edifice in Athens, is 62% as wide as it is long; and Greek statues had a person's navel 62% of the distance from feet to top of head, and the neck begins 62% of the distance between the navel and top of head. Same ratio appears all over the place. And thus, Greek statues don't look quite human -which is right- because few people are actually built like that. But my point is that the Greek mind was all about getting it "right," and "right" was somewhere beyond normal human experience -there was MORE.

The other element of Greek attention was the "deus ex machina," which means "God in the machine." Greek plays dealth with profound issues of good and evil, giving into temptation -all the stuff of soap operas today. But sometimes the human predicaments played out were so complex as to be unsolvable by humans themselves. That's when an actor, playing a god, was lowered onto stage on a platform using a system of ropes and pulleys -the "machine." And the god sorted it all out for the people.

So you could argue that Greek thinking and sensibilites were very ready for the Christian promise of salvation and the Christian way of life. As Jesus' brother said, "All good and perfect things come from above," EXACTLY what the Greeks thought.

And so, Christianity very easily overtook the gods of mythology.

I hope that helps.

Answer 4

No...it's prechristian. Also the key word to your question is "mythology", mythology and religeons are 2 different things.
However I have either heard or read somewhere that most mythology has its' basis in fact.

Answer 5

I'm unfamiliar with greet mythology. Can you provide some links?

However, I'm pretty sure that most christians do greet each other, so I can't imagine that it would be a problem.

I guess that's one thing that most of us have in common -- atheists and theists -- we believe in greeting each other.

Answer 6

i never thought so it was long before chirstianity and it was the way the people of the day sought to find meanign in the many aspects of life. there is no link to it and christianity in the modern would very interesting bit of reading though.

Answer 7

It can't be against it, since it predates christianity.

Of course, it can pretty much show you christianity is false if you study it, so your fellow christians would like you to keep away from it.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa2.htm

Answer 8

vice versa maybe...because the greeks had their mythology long before christianity..

Answer 9

The Greeks had it first, so I would say Christianity goes agains the Greeks
And its not fairytales any more the Christian God.

Answer 10

I was sure this was going to be a "Tragic" question.

Pretending to work at Walmart is not biblical though.