What religion was King Nebuchadnezzar at the time of the fiery furnace incident?

Question

Was the gold statue he wanted everyone to worship of himself, or the God he worshipped?

Answer 1

Probably as king of Babylon he would have to be a follower of the state cult. Marduk was the city god of Babylon.

In his inscriptions he does mention several gods. For example on the East India House inscription he says "I am Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the exalted prince, the favourite of the god Marduk, the beloved of the god Nabu, the arbiter, the possessor of wisdom, who reverences their lordship.... To Marduk my Lord I made supplication: O eternal prince, lord of all being, guide in a straight path the king whom thou lovest and whose name thou hast proclaimed as was pleasing to thee. I am the prince, thy favourite, the creature of thy hand. Thou hast created me, entrusted me with dominion over all people....

Answer 2

So the “famous prostitute” has a name, “Babylon the Great.” This links her with the Babylon of ancient history, in the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, which history reveals was full of depraved sex worship and corruption. (Dan. 4:28-30) Today, Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon is no more. Her site in modern Iraq is a desolation, “as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” (Isa. 13:19-22) However, ancient Babylon did leave a legacy for mankind. And what is that? Her idolatry—her religion!

From earliest times following the Flood, Babylon was identified with false religion. It was there that men, in defiance of Jehovah, built a city and a religious tower with its top in the heavens. And when Jehovah confused their language, it was from Babylon that they scattered over all the earth, taking their false religion with them. In the fourth century, apostate Christians fused the doctrine and ceremonial practice of Babylon into the religious system that exists to this day in the various sects of Catholicism and Protestantism. Thus, there has developed a world empire of false religion, “Babylon the Great,” embracing “Christian” and nonChristian religions. Because of the involvement of “Babylon the Great” in the persecutions, violence, and even the world wars of history, God passes judgment on her, saying: “In her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.”—Rev. 17:5, 6; 18:24; Gen. 10:8-10; 11:1-9.

Babylon the Great’s adulterous “friendship with the world” goes even farther. It includes her domineering relationship with a symbolic “beast.” For she is described at Revelation 17:3 as also “sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast that was full of blasphemous names.” In the Bible, “beasts” are often used to symbolize political nations. (Dan. 7:2-8; 8:5-8, 20, 21; Rev. 13:1-18) But here the prophecy speaks of a grotesque combination “beast” having “seven heads and ten horns.” Modern history shows that this “beast” first appeared in 1920. It was a combine of the nations—the League of Nations. It took a plunge into temporary inactivity during World War II. But—in fulfillment of prophecy—it appeared again as the United Nations in 1945. Shortly, it “goes off into destruction.”—Rev. 17:8-11.

False religion, “Babylon the Great,” has tried to give a guiding hand to both the League of Nations and the United Nations. But God’s Word shows that all such religious-political intimacies by popes and other religious leaders will soon come to an end. At a time when the “famous prostitute” thinks she is sitting pretty God will cause the symbolic “ten horns” of the United Nations “beast” to turn their militarized might against her. They will get her off their back, devastate her, destroy her completely, as if by fire.—Rev. 17:16, 17.

It is because he loves righteousness and hates wickedness, and so should we. (Ps. 145:17-21) How necessary it is that Jehovah’s great name and purposes be vindicated! How necessary that our earth be cleansed of all the bloodguilt, corruption and immorality that have sullied this beautiful creation of God over the past millenniums! Only then will the earth become the global paradise that God has purposed for mankind. So, first, the matchless ‘God of love’ must clear the way by inflicting vengeance upon his enemies. Are we not glad that his day of vengeance is now at hand? Let us, then, be among those who accept Jehovah’s loving invitation: “Be glad, you nations, with his people, for he will . . . pay back vengeance to his adversaries.”—Deut. 32:43.

Answer 3

Nebuchadnezzar was the Pastor of The 1st Church of Narcissism and Arrogance that lead him to graze in the grass for a while....Daniel 5..Saddam Husein met the same fate...

Answer 4

He was a follower of the god MARDUK, and he worshiped several gods: Ea was the god of wisdom, spells and incantations. Sin was the moon god. Shamash was the god of the sun and of justice. Ishtar was the unreliable goddess of love and war.
Under the gods and goddesses there were deities of the underworld; demons, devils, monsters. There were a few good spirits as well.