Comparing Classical Mythology And The Bible

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The first difference was seen on clear between the classical Mythology and the bible was someone who creation of the world. In the Bible. Just only one God who made everything in this world, and made in six days to complete. Conversely, the Classical Mythology has many Gods whom made the world. Such as Gaea, the Mother Earth; Uranus, the sky; Ourea, the mountains, and many other.
On the creation the world of Classical Mythology. Before God created a man, God were created many gods for example the twelve Titans of Gaea and Uranus. The Bible, God created the first man who called Adam and the first woman God named Eve. In addition, God doesn’t make other Idol. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is
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Followed the Bible a Natural phenomenon made by only God, for instance God made a flood the Earth because God didn’t like human behavior. In the Classical Mythology believed that it made by many Gods such as the thunder made by Zeus (Jupiter) who wielded the awful thunderbolt. Beyond, the difference in some detail. It also has some similarities in The Creation of the Earth between The Classical Mythology and the Bible. The first was about made a human had a special over other animal, and based on God image. Moreover, made same by the dust such as in the Bible, God said "Let Us make man in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." One thing to God Made for a man was the emotion, for example, a geed, a wrath, a lust, and a love. As God in the bible said for a man "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." For the Classical mythology it was seen from the Gods behavior that wished to fall in love and want to propagate. Because of the limited of population, it was made the same problem as Gaea mated Uranus who was her son, and they had many children. The problem as the result of loves as Hera, she punishes the

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