Easter’s Message Comparing the Pagan & Biblical Meaning of Peace

During Easter, we discuss how Christ provided peace with God by offering his blood salvation to conquer sin, and release the conquered. An intriguing fact from the history of ancient Rome was their theory of how the peace of God or Pax Deorum was the most important public policy of the empire. The Roman idea of god included foreign deities also entering the pantheon These all had to be mollified via a contractual relationship. Most important was the transparently superstitious nature of this policy and how it avoids the Christian sense of the love of God that can cover all human error. But between Rome’s contractual notion of the gods, versus the biblical belief of a covenant, which is more adaptive to human needs and divine mandates. And one can assert that the problem the ancient Romans had with their gods was largely resultant from a lack of covenant, and a simplistic idea of divinity, to begin.

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