Greek mythology and the water cycle
Sammy,
I was not able to find an ancient Greek reference to the full cycle of water. Apparently the enlightened ancient Greeks didn't have the same grasp of science as did the author of Job and Solomon.
Here is what I did find:
"Because the Hyades appear during rainy seasons, the Greeks believed them to be messengers of spring rain showers and autumn storms. Their name means in Greek "to rain." The rain was believed to represent their tears of grief for their brother Hyas. But this does not explain how rain came to be, and other explanations appear in times that would have been earlier than the Hyades.
Back all the way to the creation: according to Hesiod's Theogeny ... even before Zeus or Cronus existed, Gaia [mother earth] gave birth to Uranus, [father sky]. and now that there was an earth and sky, and "Rain fell from the sky onto the Earth, making plants grow; animals appeared from the rivers and ocean."
After, Zeus was generally in charge of rain, [Rain God, Cloud Gatherer]... and it rained solely at his discretion."
Compare this babbling about mother earth and father sky to the straight forward and accurate references in the Bible. The Bible is accurate and the ancients Greek beliefs were superstitions. While the Bible is solidly grounded in reality the Greek story is wild flights of fantasy.
I repeat my original assertion again: the Bible revealed to Man facts of science hundreds and thousands of years before science is able to explain the same facts. And the Bible is the ONLY ancient religious text that can make that claim.
So how did the authors of the Bible know these facts? Could it be that they actually received some form of divine inspiration? Or did these ancient writer just get lucky?
Just something to mull over.
There's a bunch more of this to come.
