"Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods?"

We took a detour yesterday from our right-brained look at logic to enter into more of a relaxed left-brained story time! Just what does that have to do with Christian worldview thinking? The next topic in our text examines the Christian view of truth, knowledge and history, so this seemed to be a good time to back up and look at the worldviews which were prevalent in the centuries leading up to the birth of Christ. Our starting point for this segment is the worship of the gods and goddesses of Olympus by the ancient Greeks and Romans. This topic was introduced through the story of "The Golden Apple of Discord" which supposedly formed the backdrop for the Trojan War. Even though the Greek and Roman myths are 'just stories' to us, we can't lose sight of the fact that these myths, especially the works of Homer and Virgil, represented the history and the theology of these ancient people groups; these gods and goddesses were considered to be real.

We are going to spend a little time here and then move on to the different theological views posed by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Next week we will look at the anthropomorphic nature of the gods of Olympus.