Conflicting Truth Claims: Christianity vs Ancient Greek Polytheism
Christianity approximately has 2 billion followers around the globe. Polytheism today has only about 100,000 followers which is a substantial decrease from around 750 BC when Homer's The Iliad was first written down. The gap between the two religions is quite noticeable, however, which religion appears to be the absolute truth has never been fully tackled. Christianity and Ancient Greek Polytheism have some of the same ideas, but with a certain twist on it that makes sense with the guidelines of the certain religion. These conflicting truth claims present within the two religions are based on people who create their religions to help understand natural phenomena and the deity. …show more content…
In Christianity, a person either goes to Heaven or Hell depending if they believe in God and his only son Jesus. Some forms of Christianity have to do with good works such as Jehovah's witness and some are more ritualized with steps to get to Heaven such as Catholicism. In any case, Heaven or Hell is the final destination that Christians believe in. When someone dies in the Ancient Greek Polytheistic religion. They believed in three different realms of the underworld. One of the realms is Elysium which is basically the Greeks version of heaven a peaceful place for souls to stay when they are remembered in the land of the living. The second realm is the realm of Hades which is a large realm where Zeus brother Hades rules where souls go to if they are forgotten in the land of the living. The third realm is Tartarus which is a place of torment where the souls that were damned go to. Remembering and respecting the dead was a major part of the afterlife because it provided the dead person with the sunny fields of Elysium. These different ideas do not differ too much because there is a version of Heaven and Hell in both religions. The way that the people understand the afterlife differ and conflict, however, the idea of the afterlife stays constant through both
Christianity approximately has 2 billion followers around the globe. Polytheism today has only about 100,000 followers which is a substantial decrease from around 750 BC when Homer's The Iliad was first written down. The gap between the two religions is quite noticeable, however, which religion appears to be the absolute truth has never been fully tackled. Christianity and Ancient Greek Polytheism have some of the same ideas, but with a certain twist on it that makes sense with the guidelines of the certain religion. These conflicting truth claims present within the two religions are based on people who create their religions to help understand natural phenomena and the deity. …show more content…
In Christianity, a person either goes to Heaven or Hell depending if they believe in God and his only son Jesus. Some forms of Christianity have to do with good works such as Jehovah's witness and some are more ritualized with steps to get to Heaven such as Catholicism. In any case, Heaven or Hell is the final destination that Christians believe in. When someone dies in the Ancient Greek Polytheistic religion. They believed in three different realms of the underworld. One of the realms is Elysium which is basically the Greeks version of heaven a peaceful place for souls to stay when they are remembered in the land of the living. The second realm is the realm of Hades which is a large realm where Zeus brother Hades rules where souls go to if they are forgotten in the land of the living. The third realm is Tartarus which is a place of torment where the souls that were damned go to. Remembering and respecting the dead was a major part of the afterlife because it provided the dead person with the sunny fields of Elysium. These different ideas do not differ too much because there is a version of Heaven and Hell in both religions. The way that the people understand the afterlife differ and conflict, however, the idea of the afterlife stays constant through both