Differences between Greek and Hebrew Gods

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Differences between Greek and Hebrew Gods
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• Greek conception of God
• Includes both harmonious and disharmonious forces
  of nature

• Hebrew conception of God
• Emphasizes only the harmonious forces of nature
• Blames disorder in the universe on humans

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• Greek
• Gods also an expression of disorder in the world

• Hebrew
• A priori assumption on a just and powerful God

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• Olympian gods are like the natural forces of sky,
  sea etc, have conflicts with each other like
  humans, but totally disregard humans

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• Behind all the gods stand the one powerful God
  Zeus but he is not all powerful behind him
  stands the mysterious power of fate

• One God

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• Greek Gods not connected with morality
• Morality is a human creation, Gk gods may approve
  of it but they are not bound by it

• Hebrew God bound by morality

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• Gods here are immortal
• Death is a human fear, just as the courage to
  face up to it is a human courage

• Immortal too
• All resides in the hands of the one God

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• Fate God in GK milieu but this Fate is equally
  capricious, for unlike Hebrew God it is not bound
  by morality