If they were all powerful gods couldn’t they have somehow blocked out all the sounds of mankind or even send some kind of warning to the people? In the Book of Genesis God decided that mankind was becoming too wicked, and God was sorry he created them. (Gen. 6:6). I thought that God’s reason made more sense to me; he saw his creation become something he had not intended it to be corrupted and full of evil and he could not stand it. In The Epic of Gilgamesh the gods planned to wipe out everyone, but the god Ea decides to warn Utnapishtim because he was a worshiper of him.
In both stories the gods or God struck down a flood as a symbol of their anger as well. Lastly, at the end of each story, the once perfect creation became cursed, whether it was with sin, or ignorance. Also there are many differences in Genesis and Popol Vuh. First of all, Genesis is a part of the Bible that explains how God created humans. Also Genesis says that there is only one God who created the earth and humans with words.
But the Greek gods were to be respected and feared. They didn’t care about the people they were there to boss you around. The biggest difference I can think of is that the Pagan gods aren’t immortal unlike the Christian God. If the Pagan
In reality, the two are very different from one another, and capture almost opposing life values that are central to the people of the time. Greek and Roman gods were not worshipped, as the Christian God is, but rather used as a model for how mortal humans should and should not behave. It is true that the Greeks and the Romans saw forces of nature as the personifications of divine beings. It is also true that they both believed that their gods and goddesses could assume the guise of mortal humans. From these basic beliefs the Greeks and
They lived totally different lifestyles than other countries did in their time. They had a different view of life and different beliefs that people today would think is weird. The Igbo have a religion, gender roles, and social structure unique to them. The Igbo religion is similar to Christianity that believes in one Supreme God called Chukwu. Chukwu means “the greater high god.” They believed that Chukwu created other minor gods which they prayed to.
Both religions are often thought to be henotheistic, meaning they recognize a single deity, and view other Gods and Goddesses as manifestations or aspects of that supreme God. In the Ancient Egyptian religion, this is untrue due to the fact that the pharaoh, who is believed to have been descended from the gods, can choose when to shift the focus of the supreme deity. Because the concerns of the population in both areas were different, gods held contradictory roles due to landscape, social, and climatic variation. Worship in both religions also has similarities, with a temple dedicated to a particular deity, and shrines within that temple dedicated to other gods correlated with the main deity. Both religions believed in the afterlife.
For example, there was a mini-bus crash where 12 children and a teacher were killed, and an atheist would say the mini-bus and lorry were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that it certainly did not have anything to do with God. Some Christians would say that God gave humans free will, and with this, humans can commit evil things. God did not just make us all good and without free will, because without it God would be forcing goodness on us, which would mean we would not be truly good people and it would be a fake goodness. Other Christians say that God permits evil because it is his way of testing our faith for him. An example of this is in the bible, when Abrahams’ faith is tested by God when God tells him to sacrifice his son.
However the comparison between God and Aristotle’s prime mover has some differences, such as the prime mover is just an abstract idea: it is not as loving as God nor does it wish to seek a relationship with humanity. In addition, The fact that God wants a relationship with humanity is shown in the bible because the main focus, in both creation stories, are humans which were God's only creation that was made in his image; humans also had a partnership with God to look after the Earth seen in the story of Adam and Eve Genesis 2. Therefore God is seen as a creator who wants a relationship with us as he makes us special. Furthermore, in the second biblical account of creation, we see a more humanly image of god and this would make the relationship between humans and God more powerful as we could meet God as intensely as we would meet another human being; hence this further reinforces that the writers of the bible present God as a creator who seeks a relationship with us. Additionally, the writers of the bible write that God creates “Ex nihilo”; this shows how everything came from God and further supports the fact that God is omnipotent.
Zeus wouldn’t help those who lied or those who were dishonest (Hamilton 27). Also, Zeus was angry with men, so he made women as a punishment, and he made unmarried men cursed, so that they would grow old without anyone to care for them. This could have affected why women didn’t have as
A cultural difference between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt was their view of the afterlife. Ancient Mesopotamians believed that humankind was caught in an innately chaotic world and that there was not much hope of a blessed life beyond death. The Epic Of Gilgamesh shows written evidence of this negative view of the afterlife through lines such as, “Gilgamesh, whither lovest thou? The life thou pursuest thou shalt not find, When the gods created mankind, Death for mankind they set aside.” On the other hand, Egyptians had a more enthusiastic and hopeful outlook on life and saw the daily rebirth of the sun and the yearly return of the river as assurance of an afterlife. Pyramids reflect the belief that at least pharaohs could make it to the afterlife, and incantations in the Book of the Dead suggest belief in an abundant and tranquil afterlife.