APOLLO IS ALSO CONSIDERED A PRECURSOR TO CHRIST. AS YOU SEE FROM THIS DEFINITION BELOW, APOLLO GRANTED FORGIVENESS TO THE MORTALS’ SINS. CHRISTIANITY HAS EVOLVED FROM A DISTILLATION OF POLYTHEISM TO INCORPORATE MONOTHEISM AND MOSAIC LAW. THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE BELIEF IN ONE GOD BUT WITHOUT THE RIGOROUS AND OFTEN TEDIOUS CONSTRAINTS OF JUDAISM IS CHRISTIANITY INCLUDING ALL THE IDEALISM OF THE PANTHEON OF GREEK GODS. BELOW IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF APOLLO AND YOU CAN READ THE FULL VERSION HERE:

Apollo, in Greco–Roman mythology, a deity of manifold function and meaning, one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancient Greek and Roman gods. Though his original nature is obscure, from the time of Homer onward he was the god of divine distance, who sent or threatened from afar; the god who made men aware of their own guilt and purified them of it; who presided over religious law and the constitutions of cities; and who communicated with mortals through prophets and oracles his knowledge of the future and the will of his father, Zeus (Roman: Jupiter). Even the gods feared him, and only his father and his mother, Leto (Roman: Latona), could easily endure his presence. He was also a god of crops and herds, primarily as a divine bulwark against wild animals and disease, as his Greek epithet Alexikakos (Averter of Evil) indicates. His forename Phoebus means “bright” or “pure,” and the view became current that he was connected with the Sun. See Helios.

PS THE IMAGE OF APOLLO IN THIS POST IS FROM POMPEII. I HAVE SEEN IT MYSELF. ONE DAY YOU TOO WILL SEE IT IN PERSON.

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DAD