Greek mythology and bible figures related?

Question

ok ok, so I worded my last question wrong; sorry. What I mean is, I KNOW the bible was written and published long after Greek mythology was created.... BUT! I do know that on this Earth many many years ago, there were super-human beings that were half human and half angelical (or God) (whatever).... My point is it is interesting that Zeus had a son named Hercules, I think.. Zeus lived on high, yet he sent his son into the world to defeat evil.. (or something like that..) He also descended into Hell to defeat evil. (or Pluto, whatever).. THAT IS ONE EXAMPLE THAT IS RESEMBLANCE ON BIBLIBAL FIGURES!!! Hey all you people who called me an idiot are the true idiots ok!!? the subject are the gods; not the manuscript which the gods are written about, you soddish jerks!! NOW LET ME GET SOME EDUCATED REFERENCES SO I CAN STUDY THIS 4 REAL! I am not here to play games.....

Answer 1

fairy tales...fairy tales and more fairy tales.....GL

Answer 2

Well, most of what the bible consists of is stolen in one way or another. Not only form Greek mythology, but also from many other religions and cults as well. The whole idea of being able to become pregnant and give birth while still being a virgin is, for example, a very old myth of the germanic tribes. It's much older than the bible. Other things like all the stories about Moses, Adam and Eve or Noah's Ark and so on come from babylonian and other, middle-eastern religions. Even the idea of Jesus and his character (wandering around and telling people about his god, being a good samaritan and so on) has been there before. This is, why believing in any religion is such irrational and simply nonsense. Because, in fact, every Christian should also believe in Zeus, Thor, Re, Wotan, Babylon... and all the other gods of the religions that the bible is made of. @ Ilanolyn: Just because the christian version is slightly different, does NOT mean, the christians found it out themselves. Of course we are talking here about very long periods of time. The virgin-gets-baby-myth has been around for many centuries, if not millenias, before the christians adopted it. Of course, these myths also changed permanently, since they usually were only spread orally and not via scriptures.

Answer 3

There are several very informative answers below; which support that God's account was done first. Whether first, second, third or fourth; it's still the 'gold standard'...As evidenced by: No one is pointing out that the egyptians (who God loathed; and, subsequently humiliated) came long before the greeks. And their fables and gods..were chickens, cats and birds' heads on top of man like body's.

How the greeks changed this was: their fables and gods..were fashioned after them !!! A major change in cosmology. Then, they made their fatal error...they codified human flaws and foibles in their gods; and, that weakened their gods and their powers substantially.

God, on the other hand, did not make this error; but, that leaves some contradictions (that and the way He had the Bible put together, i.e. different men over many centuries, doing their best to get the salient points across.)

Then, as now, anyone who could write; would pen something claiming to be a prophet or other esteemed person of God and a lot of counterfeit junk was produced. It's called : psuedepigrapha.

Answer 4

I think hercules was the result of a fling with a mortal, but as far as a relationship between the two there is only one I can think of. The fact is that ancient greek mythology and the bible are similar in the fact they are collections of stories written to explain the world around the original writers. back then they ahd no concept of science and what not so in order to desipher the world, they made up gods and mythical beasts. The same thing with the bible. I think this is what you were looking for. Hope I helped a little.

Answer 5

No I believe you are mistaken about the time frame here.The Greeks flourished from about 600 BC until the Romans subjegated them around 100 BC.Moses wrote his 5 books 1500 BC,the rest of the Old Testament was finished 500 BC,and Job was probably written closer to 1700 BC,It is the oldest book in the Bible.
Ancient historian Flavius Josephus says in his Antiqueties that the "Gods" of Greece were based on the offspring of the fallen angels that came(Genesis 6) and mated with human women.The" Nephillim". In fact the root word Satan has Chitan and Titan as a root.

Answer 6

how do you KNOW that there were half-man, half super-beings on earth yrs ago?? if that were true, we all should have evolved into supermen and superwomen.

but yes, there are some similarities between greek mythology and the bible. but for all we know , the bible is pure myth as well, right? so there is no one true and definite answer to anything. I for one have a long list of questions for God when i die....or whoever is out there that i can ask. still interesting observations though.

Answer 7

The Bible was a gift from God. Is it possible that those myths were proof that things began to get pretty disrespectful considering God's children were clearly in need of a warning.

Be sure and study up on the boy who fell in love with his own reflection in the lake and the gal that glorified him choosing to place him above God. Both were very confused and stranded in marveling after the boy...could say they were totally stuck ...no way to reach God and all His Glory. God wants us to love but warns of being unequally yoked. To conclude on this issue: The Ten Commandments and Bible speak clearly against idolatry and lusting after many things including illusions that will only result in self-destruction. So, thru your studies be sure to cross-reference using the Bible as there are many clear messages (solutions) if or when dealing with problem solving issues.

An example if I may....concerning " jerks " who call people "idiots" - a waste of energy...well there is a solution in the the Bible that helps deal with issues such as name-calling found in the Book of Matthew....anything so far in Myths you are studying?

Answer 8

Read "The Mythmaker, Paul and the Invention of Christianity" by Hyam Maccoby

Read "The Hero of a Thousand Faces" (but watch out for the anti-Jewish cast) by Joseph Cambell

WRITE a chart of how you think the stories match up -- a column for Christian Bible, a column for Jewish Bible, a column for Koran, Greek Myth, Roman myth, Late Babylonia, Early Sumerian;

then put in Indian (Vedic); Chinese (Han) Olmec, Aztec, Mochica, Inca

Answer 9

The Biblical mention of the Nephilim is likely a reference to the Titans, or an earlier Babylonian source that became the stories of the Greek Titans.

The fact that they are referred to as the offspring of 'angels' and women is likely due to the differing mentalities of polytheism and the monotheism that was developing among the Hebrews.

Answer 10

you have a good point there must be loads of similarities

dont worry too much about the over religous people - tey can not see past there own bible - (after all it is the word of god and so the content must me unique and unrelated to stories the writers may have been told, otherwise think of all that time they have wasted worshiping a god that originated from stories!)

on a similar point - a lot of religous holidays are related to older religions - take christmas for example - it has nothing to do with the birth of christ. - its a pagen festival

Answer 11

Hasn't God been God long before the bible? Doesn't God work everywhere and with all peoples? Why wouldn't the ancient Greeks love whatever facet of God were revealed to them?