Comparing Roman Mythology And The Bible

Many origins, make Roman mythology what it is, including Christianity. This includes the fact that both of the stories have a very similar same story line. Roman Mythology splits this timeline into ages of Rome, and humans progressively get worse, Genesis on the other hand splits this timeline into 3 parts. Both stories begin with a formless, void of a world. In addition to the story line being so similar, the symbolism are almost the same. In the Bible the World being cut off from the love and perfection of the God who made them, and falling into sin. In Roman mythology the symbolism of the chaotic World is the war and that chaos that was to come.
One of the main comparisons of these 2 stories is they have the same plot. Both stories begin with an perfect time (the golden age). Followed by a time of hardship, and the development of agriculture (the silver age). There is a time of domination and war (the Bronze Age), as well as a time of great evil (the Iron Age). The gods (God) decided that the Earth needed a cleansing, and sent a great flood, which only a kind couple who had done no wrong were saved on an ark.

Roman Mythology speaks of a formless world. Roman mythology believed that “In the beginning was the formless and random mass we call chaos” (Roman mythology). Roman mythology tells us that a supreme being created everything, additionally that man did not bring sin into the world until right before the flood. In contrast to Roman mythology, Genesis doesn’t speak of chaos, but instead it tells us of intent. The Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness” (Genesis 1: 2; ESV). Genesis says that God created everything, and man brought sin into the world shortly after they were created. Stories such as the story of Odin and Ymir begin with nothingness as