A Weaker God
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Pages: 5
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sense of the divine being. They recognized the power of the gods, but they were also aware of their limits. The realized that the gods were not all-powerful. Today that is a given with Christianity. Humans challenged the ancient gods, while the contemporary Christian god is infinitely great. All in all, the gods of Greco-Sumerian antiquity were powerful, but in comparison to the modern Christian god, they were only a step above the ant-like humans.
sense of the divine being. They recognized the power of the gods, but they were also aware of their limits. The realized that the gods were not all-powerful. Today that is a given with Christianity. Humans challenged the ancient gods, while the contemporary Christian god is infinitely great. All in all, the gods of Greco-Sumerian antiquity were powerful, but in comparison to the modern Christian god, they were only a step above the ant-like humans.