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A Comparison Of Greek And Roman Mythology

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The new testament challenged every part of the Greek and Roman culture art and history/ mythology. One offshoot of that is how people handle success and life. Christianity challenged Roman authority to the extent the empire eventually chose to merge the church into the government and form the Roman Catholic Church and Greek Orthodox Church. Let’s look at how Greek and Roman mythology stories compared to the living history witnessed a century before, then how The New Testament disruptive culture and governments to the point of forcing a merger into everyday life.
We all have our favor of grief or roman mythology story is chances are you’ve all heard one or two stories of both Biblical text. The two are mutually incongruent, because as stated in Gneisses and reconfirmed the 10 Commandments that there is but one God and the Greeks, the Romans and the Egyptian counterpart had one God for every problem that they faced. Therefore, as Christianity started to spread across the Mediterranean the Greeks and Romans where forced to denounce the divinity of the Gods of their ancestors, or to live in the sin of not recognizing God as the one true god. It was no longer acceptable to worship false Idols, so it was no longer ok to celebrate the rain god or apices Poseidon. This newfound religion changed the …show more content…

The birth of Christianity is marked by the life of Jesus, and the New Testament was written by the apostles that witnessed his life and teachings. Jesus was executed for being a rebel rouser by the Roman Government at the behest of the Jewish Oligarchy. They saw his teachings, miracles, and his movement as dangerous to the Roman Empire. This cemented his Prophecy and ensured his legacy and Churches place in

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