>Greek pantheon has one powerful god who rules over the spiritual world>this world is inhabited by lesser gods that are not all powerful, but they are immortal beings more powerful than humans>the powerful god can impregnate human women to produce powerful offspring>this is a nonsensical arrangement, pagan garbage>Christian theology has one powerful God who rules over the spiritual world>this world is inhabited by angels that are not all powerful, but they are immortal beings more powerful than humans>the powerful God can impregnate human women to produce powerful offspring>this arrangement makes perfect sense, monotheistic treasure
>>18172330>>this is a nonsensical arrangement, pagan garbageFUCKING GUFFAW, SAYS WHO, DIDN'T READRETARD
>>18172330In the Greek pantheon male and female Gods could sexo people. There were other beings they could have sex with too. Gross.
>>18172330>>Greek pantheon has one powerful god who rules over the spiritual worldThe 5 children of Kronos were the most powerful of the GodsAphrodite is a mysterious addition; the story of her spontaneous birth from sea foam probably suggests that she was imported by foreign traders Serapis was designed as a kind of Greek-Egyptian crossover god to help the Ptolemies rule Egypt.
>>18172330>Christian theology has one powerful God who rules over the spiritual worldand the material world>this world is inhabited by angels that are not all powerful, but they are immortal beings more powerful than humansangels are more powerful than humans technically but unlike pagan gods can't actually hurt or do really anything to humans without God's permission>the powerful God can impregnate human women to produce powerful offspringno, Mary wasn't 'impregnated' by God, Jesus was miraculously conceived, there were no divine gametes involved or anything, it wasn't a God caused form of reproduction - also the offspring was the God himself and this only happened once>this arrangement makes perfect sense, monotheistic treasurecorrect and unlike the pagan garbage it has actual historical evidence for it showing that it's literally real
>>18172683Robert Greaves theorizes extensively about the greek myths and their gods. From a historical point of view, those new gods and the supremacy of Zeus from some older gods may be related to conquest. An interesting topic is the birth myth of Dionysius and Athena from Zeus, like with Aphrodite they appear later but they're related with ancient cults. The births imply a syncretism, using the abnormal birth like a subjugation into the greek pantheon under the leadership of this new god Zeus
>>18172795These sound like really petty and semantic differences
>>18172538>in Christian theology there are a group of angels that had sexo with human females and their off-spring became the "nephilim" (demigods)
>>18172330Ancient Greek converts to Christianity identified God with Zeus. In fact in the early philosophies of Greek Christians (Eg. Origen of Alexandria) they literally call the Christian God "Zeus".
>>18174328They also identified Hell with Hades, what's your point? They used the language they were familiar with to understand concepts with which they weren't.
>>18173430Graves analysis is fucking garbage, he connects every greek myth to his chariot-crashing young king sacrifice bullshit that he was reading about at the time, none of which has ever been attested to having actually existed.I know Graves is a national treasure and a literary genius and shit but this entire work is a bunch of fart-huffing nonsense, and when people beefed to him about it he just said "well I'm a poet so I understand these things better."Garbage.
>>18172683>Aphrodite is a mysterious addition; the story of her spontaneous birth from sea foam probably suggests that she was imported by foreign tradersAccording to the version of her birth recounted by Hesiod in his Theogony,[116][117] Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.[117][118][119] The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite[5] (hence her name, which Hesiod interprets as "foam-arisen"),[5] while the Giants, the Erinyes (furies), and the Meliae emerged from the drops of his blood.[
Zeus is NEVER portrayed as being omnipotent or omniscient. Other gods routinely fuck up his plans, sneak around behind his back, or break the rules while he is distracted by some mortal poontang. He is also portrayed as a rebel who defeated other previous daddy creator gods.
>>18176330Sounds a bit similar to Athena.>>18176357>Zeus is NEVER portrayed as being omnipotent or omniscient.Not to other Gods he's not. Though he easily could defeat every one of them except maybe his brothers.
