But at the time, Perseus, a demi-god, lived on earth. And as it turned out he was the son of Zeus/God and an earthling woman that he impregnated, the wife of a king. The king discovered what Zeus had done and sealed the queen and her newborn child in a box and cast it into the sea. The box broke and as fate would have it, the queen died but Perseus, a demi-god, survived. A fisherman rescued the abandoned baby and he and his wife raised him as their own. So, when Hades came to heap hell on humanity, Perseus - the Chosen, led an army of humans against him. They defeated Hades/the Devil and in doing so Perseus became humanity’s Savior. At the end of the movie, Zeus tells Perseus, “you may not want to be a god Perseus but after feats like yours, men will worship you.” Like they worshipped Osirus, Horus, Isis, and Set? Krishna? And Jesus? The point is that many Bible stories replicate ancient myths. But preachers and teachers either don’t recognize it /or won’t acknowledge that fact.
In ancient times, most people were uneducated, and myths helped them to make sense of their lives and the physical world’s naturally occurring phenomena. Myths employ symbolism, metaphors, allegories, and other imagery to communicate and promulgate life lessons and wisdom. The unlettered more readily related to the physical world as a living picture book since print hadn’t been invented yet. Which is okay, but ignorance walks with superstition and a tendency to glorify and deify exceptional human beings, as demonstrated in the story of Perseus. The irony is that when folks deify humans, they unwittingly personify/humanize God. They reverse the natural order of things. Does God, as described in the Bible, get jealous or angry? No, God is pure positivity! Dark thoughts and emotions are conditions peculiar to the human experience. And people project these thoughts and emotions onto God, they humanize God. And deify men. Many examples of deification (God in the Person) exist throughout history – there were Pharaohs, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Dalai Lamas, Chinese and Japanese Emperors, Incan rulers, Popes, Fard Muhammed, and, of course, Jesus. And let’s not forget the many truth-tellers and messengers, nor t to leave out men proclaimed as Prophets by other men.