Explaination of a jewish sky god

by sinis 2 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  sinis

  Can anyone explain WHY christianity worships a jewish sky god?!?! Why not worship the Greek god(s) or Roman or islam? I find it very humurous that we say, "Oh, those are myths", without even looking at christanity. Could it be that christanity took off because it happened to be a jewish religious sect at the time of rome that grew tremendously because of the "hope" offered? Because Rome found that there existed a rift in its populace (beliefs) they had no choice, under Constantine, to merge religion and government to get better control of the masses (religion has been very powerfull, ie government, for centuries). Since western society is based off of roman culture we naturally adopted the religion of the romans - christanity. So, lets say rome had massive problems with the muslims and they lived in the area instead of the jews, does that mean then today the accepted western religion would be some form of islam?

  As I was mentioning this to a JW I explained to them that I do not need to show whether there religion is right or wrong, all I have to do is go to the root or core which is christanity. If that can be shown to be false and pagan in nature than it makes no difference which "christian" religion you subscribe to, they are all false. The same goes, IMO, with all religion.
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  Narkissos

  (You are certainly aware of the anachronism in your hypothesis about Rome and Islam, and that Islam -- born in the 7th century AD -- is dependent on Christianity... aren't you?)

  There are a number of reasons why Jewish monotheism might have sounded appealing to the Graeco-Roman world, in particular: (1) the decline of actual belief in traditional Graeco-Roman religion; (2) the growing emphasis on cosmic unity in popular philosophy (stoicism, middle- and neo-platonism), which the very idea of monotheism seemed to echo on a more accessible religious level. A modified version of this fashionable monotheism suited to Gentiles, with many features similar to the equally fashionable mystery cults of the East (Isis, Attis, etc.), was certainly most attractive to a large segment of society (lower and middle classes).

  Actually there were quite a few concurrent religions that might have played a similar role, e.g. Mithraism.

  I suppose what was finally decisive was the social structure of the early Catholic church, which suited the needs of an empire slowly falling apart.
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  sinis

  Thanks!Yea, I just grabbed Islam out of thin air.