There are many Greek gods and goddesses of nature (both of earth and human); there is only one God in Christian/Jewish belief.
97% of Greek's are Christian. The rest are Muslim, Roman Catholic and Jewish.
Neither. They are a Christian denomination that is NOT Catholic. And they have no connection at all to Judaism.
Matthew, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, is traditionally believed to have been a Jewish tax collector, not Greek. He is often associated with the audience of his Gospel, which is thought to have been written for a Jewish-Christian community. However, the early Christian context in which he lived would have involved interactions with Greek culture and language, given the Hellenistic influence in the region. Ultimately, his identity is rooted in his Jewish heritage.
It represented the christian story in an abstract symbolic way
No. He was Greek born in the Ottoman empire (Turkey), his family migrated to the U.S.A in 1913. He was brought up as a Greek Orthodox Christian but later on, he became "agnostic".
The Greek word for Christian is - Χριστιανός
christian but not catholicANSWER 2Two religions have orthodox branches: Jewish Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Catholics (as compared with Roman Catholic).
Persephone was sweet and kind.
"Pagan" is not a language. It comes from the Latin word for a rustic villager - paganus. The word "Bible" comes through Latin and Greek from a Semitic word for a papyrus scroll - the substance books were made of. Is it "pagan"? Well it predates "Christianity", so it depends on what your definition of "pagan" is. Dictionaries differ, and the Christian Church used to apply the word to anyone who was not Christian or Jewish.
Timothy was of mixed heritage; his mother was a Jewish believer, while his father was a Greek. This background placed him in a unique position within the early Christian community. Although he had Jewish roots through his mother, he was not considered a Jew in the traditional sense due to his father's Greek identity and the fact that he was not circumcised, which was a key marker of Jewish identity.
Muslims, Christians, and Jewish thinkers significantly advanced ancient Greek knowledge by preserving, translating, and expanding upon classical texts. During the Islamic Golden Age, scholars like Al-Farabi and Avicenna integrated Greek philosophy with Islamic thought, while Jewish philosophers such as Maimonides synthesized Aristotelian ideas with Jewish theology. In medieval Christian Europe, figures like Thomas Aquinas adopted and adapted Greek philosophical concepts, particularly those of Aristotle, to align with Christian doctrine. This cross-pollination of ideas laid the groundwork for the Renaissance and the development of modern Western thought.
The Greek word for 'Christian' is Χριστιανός (Christianós).