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.