Comparing God In The Bible And Greek Myth

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The Bible and Greek Mythology is full of many wonders, dangers, gods, goddesses, and mortals with supernatural powers. God in the Bible, is characterized as having an appearance that we cannot even describe because we are incapable of seeing God in all his glory. The god Enlil in Epic of Gilgamesh is the god of Earth , wind and air and had the power to cause a flood that killed most of everyone on Earth. The god Zeus, described in the epic poem the Iliad, is the King of gods and described as muscle bound with a long dark beard with a stern expression of justice and demand. There is also Krishna in the book of Bhagavad-Gita who is described as full of bliss and his beauty excels that of thousand of cupids and is seen as the creator and destroyer of everything on Earth. God in Genesis and the gods and goddesses in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Iliad, & Bhagavad-Gita are similar because they are seen as all-powerful, all-knowing, splendid, and beautiful. Humans look up to them as inspirational and it affects the behavior of human beings in their quest to act righteously or to accomplish heroic deeds. This may be accepting Jesus as Lord and savior, not angering…show more content…
Paris, for example, doesn’t like to fight, and correspondingly receives the scorn of both his family and his lover. For the gods, there are two ways to accomplish heroic deeds and they are both seen by Achilles and Hector. Achilles is portrayed as a hotheaded warrior who thinks chiefly of himself and places his personal honor over the lives of his countrymen. Achilles is respected and revered through the fear he instills. Hector, conversely, is seen and respected as a more practical man who seeks to put an end to their long and bloody war as quickly as possible and thinks about the good of his city, Troy. Even though they achieved honor in different ways, they were both the greatest warriors of their respective
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