Greek Gods And Myths

Is there a difference between the Christian God and the gods in the famous book known as the Odyssey? Should we really care if God or the gods of the odyssey are better or worse than the other or for that matter be thankful that we are ruled by God rather than the Odyssey gods? In many ways they are very different. Sending his only son to die on the cross God, loving and merciful, showed he cared about his mortals, while the gods of The Odyssey will try to kill you even if you slightly offend their children. No caring for mortals there. Surprisingly that’s just one of the many qualities that separates the Odyssey gods to the real almighty God. While that by itself is a pretty convincing fact that our God, who is prince of peace, is better than

2. The god that I most relate to is Phoebus Apollo. “No false word ever falls from his lips.” (Hamilton 25) Apollo is the God of Truth, and if you knew me, I never tell a lie. I have been raised to where the truth may hurt, but is always the right thing to say. If my mom ever caught me lying to her, I would be punished. Whenever my mom asks if I did my chores and I realize I forgot to do them, knowing I would be punished, I still tell her I have not.

First and foremost, the Platonic influence on the Christian God must be discussed. According to the Christian Theology, God is the perfect being who is essentially the personification of intelligence, power, grace, goodness, freedom, and love. God is the source of all goodness in the world. In Colossians 1:16, this idea of greatness and power is reiterated. It is written that, “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things were created

The Ancient Greeks believed in many gods and heroes during their time. Each one had a sole purpose in a mortal’s lifetime. Greek mythology had a huge impact on religion in Ancient Greece. The Greeks performed rituals in order to honor their gods. Mythology affected the Ancient Greeks in many ways. The origins of mythology, the influences of mythology through a human’s lifetime and lessons taught in the ancient myths will be examined.

In the text that has been covered in class we often see how the gods so often turn their backs on their heroes i.e. “Odyssey” by Homer. However, our God promises He will never leave us or forsake us. There are many gods in the Greek mythology yet one god could be for the hero and one could be against; they can completely counter act what the other god is doing. They lack in communication i.e. “The Epic of Gilgamesh.” Our God is three in one Father, Spirit, and Son, yet there is no lack in communication because they are one. In the Greek stories there are monsters and all other sorts of enemies and they all do whatever their little hearts desire (this is seen in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic of Gilgamesh). We believe in one enemy his name is Lucifer (Satan, The devil). He is the king of lies, deceit, and temptation. He is the deceiver. He is everything bad rolled in to one creature. People may not

For the Greeks, the Grecian Gods, rather than animals, helped make Earth more habitable for humans by getting rid of the creatures Earth birthed. Finally, the personified beings in both stories were different. The animals were personified and giving character as they were the ones that helped create Earth, while the Greeks made planets personified.

The Greek Gods are capable of romantic love while the Christian God is not. The christian God, called simply “God” takes on 3 personas, and is all those things simultaneously. Christianity is monotheism, while Greek faith is not. The Father (god), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. On the other hand, the Greeks Gods and Goddesses are all very different from each other, and serve different purposes. The Greek Gods are all pursuing their own agenda, which could be completely separate from each other, or even working against each other, like the case of Athena and Poseidon, while God is always working toward the cause to attempt to convert everyone to Christianity. All of God’s actions in the Bible was to either show His power, or to heal someone in order to demonstrate his power, but all His actions are ultimately for the purpose of converting more people to christianity whereas the Greek Gods actions are fueled through their own wants and needs and occasionally Zeus’s instruction, such as Calypso letting Odysseus go free from her island. The Greek Gods are more akin to humans than any other God except perhaps the Roman deities, but the Romans based their Gods after the Greek

Archaic Greeks had a much different beliefs than the ancient Hebrew people about their gods. Greeks believed that both man and god came from the same place, “Of how both gods and men began the same.” (Five Ages 1.1, RWH 49) Greeks considered their many gods were just another species of human. They did not believe that the gods made them or wanted them to worship at their feet. Greeks believed that they interacted with them daily. However they believed that there was specialness about them that Zeus made them to be above the normal humans. Zeus made

In modern day, everyone tends to think of the Roman gods when they think of Greece, or when they think of the ancient gods in general. Juno versus Hera, Jupiter versus Zeus, and Mars versus Ares are some examples of their different and separate deities; not just their names, but their personalities as well. There are many differences between the two religions, as well as differences between each culture’s social standings. Not only are there differences, but there are, of course, similarities. While they do indeed have their similarities, though, ancient Greece and ancient Rome will always be ultimately different.

Thoreau, an avid transcendentalist, not only loved to speak about isolationism in society but also about politics as well. Despite many discrepancies in his contradictory beliefs, his writings of civil disobedience were essentially the first embers of revolutionary principles. Government, at its core, exists to protect the people and their freedoms while taking in account the majority interest. Citizens expect to be assured the basics of life such as security, wellbeing, and sometimes, something as simple as living. Unfortunately, we see many governments deviate from this standard as they purposely extort money from the poor to fuel their corrupt schemes and many also turn a blind eye to the needy begging at their feet. When a country begins

The gods have qualities of human mortals, with a twist. Most are related in their own manner to the ways of human life. Consider the story of pandora's box. Pandora had a box full of life's misfits; Anger, deceit, heartache, betrayal and many other entities of evil. All of those negative entities fled the box, yet hope remained, to be drawn from whenever facing these negative energies.

In Greek Mythology, perhaps one of the most rudimental yet one of the most important elements are the Greek Gods and Goddesses. The ancient Greeks created the stories about the lives and journeys of the Greek Gods, known as myths, simply as an endeavor to elucidate nature and all phenomena which were difficult to explain using modern science and logic. These myths about the Gods were spread around the world by explorers and storytellers, and later merged with Greek religion. To this day, numerous myths survived through many writings and through much art. Each of these myths is very unique, and moreover, tells us much about the Greek Gods. The Greek myths in particular convey to us that Greek Gods and Goddesses looked and acted like humans,

Plato brings up a lot of points in his discussions about the philosophy of God and of religion. Many of these points seem to foreshadow what the Christian faith teaches, ideas such as the highest forms, the cultivating a life for the afterlife, and the immortality of the soul, and the idea of just and unjust med and their rewards. Though some of these ideas need to be changed a bit to fit in with each other, the main idea behind their thoughts seem to be parallel. In the following paragraphs I will expand more on how the relationship between Plato’s philosophy of God and religion can be seen in the Christian faith.

In both stories, the gods are respected and feared in some way, but this was not always the case. To enforce His authority over all living creatures, the god in Genesis “saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,” so He created a flood to rid the world of the evil that He created (King James Version, Gen. 6.5). However, not all humans were wicked; He spared Noah and his family because he remained so devoted to God, then later made a promise that “waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh” (Gen. 9.15). Likewise in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the

The only way gods communicate through humans is through these spirits, Diotima insists, because these spirits have the wisdom to intercede for the gods. The gods do not love wisdom because they are already wise and the foolish do not love wisdom because they are ignorant of the fact that they are ignorant of wisdom.