free writing: Comparing God in the Bible and the Greek gods

     After studying the Bible and Greek Mythology, I found some significance of how the creation in the Bible shows a contrast to the Greek mythology.
     In the Bible, God created light to separate day and night on the first day. On the second day, God created heavens.On the third day God created earth and seas. One the fourth day God created seasons. On the fifth day God created sea monsters and fowls in the sky. On the sixth day God created crawling creatures, cattle on earth, and human. God created the world with his word. However, in the Greek mythology, the world started with chaos, and from chaos, Night and Erebus was born. From dark and death, Love was born, and the Day and the earth was born. We don't know how it happened. There was a supernatural force that created the world. And from the story tellers, we can see that  they personified the nature. They made Earth(the mother) and Heaven (the father) acted in some ways like human. And also the Olympian gods, some people say that human created the gods in their own images, and the existence of the gods in Greek mythology was like generation after generation.  In contrast, God created everything and he created human human in his own image.
     The characteristics of God in the Bible and the Olympians in the Greek mythology are very different. God in the Bible and the Olympians in the Greek mythology are very different. God in the Bible is almighty. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. He takes control of everything. The gods in the Greek mythology are powerful too, but they are not omniscient and omnipotent. It is because each of the gods are in charge of different things, their power are divided. And even the most powerful god--Zeus, has to bow down to Gate, for Zeus himself is not able to fight what was doomed to be. That's why he was so desperate to force Prometheus to tell him the oracle of him.
     God in the Hebrew Bible is a being of just, power, righteous, good. He has a positive attitude toward human. Even if men did something wrong, he did not punish men to death.  Instead, he gave redemption.n For instance, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, God didn't kill them, he gave them skin coat in order to cover their sins. It is because after eating the fruit,  human can see good and evil, and they became ashamed of themselves. And because of that, there was a gap between God and human. However, the gods in the Greek mythology are more like human beings. They tend to have human qualities. They show their emotions such as love, jealousy, hatred. For example, the reason why the Trojan War took such a long time is because of the gods meddled in the war. Athena and Hera stands on the Greeks side because Paris chose Aphrodite as the fairest goddess, and that made them angry. The Greek gods tend to show negative attitude toward human because we can see that those gods tend to show negative attitude toward human because we can see that those gods use their superior power to meddle in human's issue, and they don't really care if the humans are dead or not.  They do things in order to satisfy themselves. For example, Hera will not be satisfied until she sees the city of Troy is ruined. That rage of Hera caused so many people's death, but she did not care about it. We can say that the gods in the Greek mythology are good and just also, but they are only good and just when they wanted to be. For instance, Zeus the most powerful god is also a lustful god. When he fell in love with human girls, he uses he superior power to offense them. This case also shows the disrespect of Greek gods toward human, while God in the Bible acted like a loving father and forgives human.

Desciption : If i can video down every moment

Meiti Riverside Park is probably the most beautiful place I went near Soochow University. It's near the Miramar mall. We went there at almost evening. We were sitting on the soft green grass, staring at the tranquil river. My friend and I were having a casual chat. Neither of us was looking at each other. As we talk, I can smell the refreshing fragrance of the grass carried by the gentle breeze. Not a strong wind. The warm breeze was like the soft fondle of the mother earth, the feeling went through my hair, i enjoy the touch, I enjoyed the smell.

  "Ring ring!" the sound of the bicycle passing by. Little kids with their helmet, moving their legs in a very fast speed (as they thought they are) I can hear the crackle of the wheels rotating on the road. They want to catch up with the adults in front of them. “Too eager for growing up" I thought in my mind." "Hey!  Wait! Ride slowly!" The worry parents behind the kids were shouting at them. Maybe that's exactly how parents are, they are always watching the rear of the children, not expecting them to turn back because they have their dream to pursue. You just have to let them go. "Ring ring!" This time is the special bike that was designed for two people to ride together. There was an old couple riding the bike. They don't have much expression on their faces, but I admired their peaceful atmosphere. Seeing lots of young couple breaking up, i wonder how they maintain their sweet taste of life for such a long time.

  Staring at the beautiful river, it was amazingly attractive. The golden orange sunshine reflected on the surface of the river, it shimmered beneath the sunset. It's not yet the time that the night falls, but who has threw the stars into the water? I supposed that some magical power is going to hang those stars on the sky after the sun goes down. The sunset! The sun! Oh the most remarkable on in the Meiti riverside park. At first it was like a fresh egg yolk, so orange, so plump. After a while, as if the mischief night angel has put a needle on it. The orange blasted out with a mixture of rose-pink, and dyed the whole sky. The round circle we saw earlier ago was vanishing. Suddenly, a splash of the water distracted me from the beautiful sunset. It was a fish jump out of the water I guess. So energetic it was, acting in a way to inform the night to come and call for the magic power to hang up the twinkling stars in the water to the sky.

  The beautiful place Meiti, I wonder what it is like in the other time of the day. I'm willing to spend my day, staring at the wonderful scene. It would be a worthwhile waste.