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2007-09-27 11:09:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone thinks they're right... and when their entire culture and nation supports that inclination... its further reinforced
2007-09-27 11:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a good analogy. For one thing, Zeus never existed. How old was that religion, anyway? How long did it last?
I worship the same God as did Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the same God who came to earth as His Son, Jesus - who is also historically mentioned. He is the same God people have come to know and worship for thousands of years - since the beginning of Mankind on the earth.
Christianity, although somewhat young as compared to some of the world's religions, has seen people come to believe in Jesus by the thousands, in the beginning, and millions since have come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
If I am not mistaken, the main reason Zeus "took leave" was because of the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles, many of whom were Greek.
2007-09-27 11:20:45 · answer #2 · answered by TroothBTold 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once people figured out they were worhsipping demons, aka the "gods" that played games with humans (the Christian gid is all-good and does not), they rejected Zeus and all the other demonic mischeivous pantheon with him. That's when the pagans had to resort to killing Christians in order to arrest their faith which only gained more adherents through martyrdom.
HINT: READ UP ON HISTORY. The pagans destroyed themselves by killing Christians in the circuses. More people joined the Christians and believed in their God.
2007-09-27 13:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by defOf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Did you know that people who believed in ZEUS believed in it with all of there hearts and to the utmost devotion just like people today praise Jesus."
Actually, no, I don't know this. How do you know it? I had a professor once who told me that the Greeks did not believe in their gods necessarily in a literal way. Rather, they believed that there was a real god who made everything, even the mythical gods. As for Zeus and all the rest, it was thought that it couldn't do any harm to offer them sacrifice, so why not.
2007-09-27 11:23:39 · answer #4 · answered by Agellius CM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to be saying everything is relative and passes away as junk ultimately. But logically the same could be said of the relative way of thinking - since it must itself be a relative thing that passes away. We have to have absolute ideas I think. People can be wildly wrong of course, deceived in all sorts of ways.
2007-09-27 11:41:06 · answer #5 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't wate your time challanging my religion
2007-09-27 11:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋