Greek God and Goddess have not been given any proper mention in The Bible, but at more instances it has been given reference as unknown gods and the goddess to the people of Asian origin like the goddess Diana. These inferences were made in such cases while trying to show non-followers of Jesus Christ how futile they were being by trusting in false gods. Acts 17:23 says, “For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you” (Brooks, 2000)
The entire Bible has pointedly and has concisely found to distinguish the actual difference between truth and untruth, filth and purity, sinfulness and righteousness. One can see into details that correlate to determine how mankind is here to create its own alterations, exceptions, and additional facets to the otherwise straightforward, God-ordained definitions. To make an explicit mention of Greek gods and goddesses will lead to another futile search for truth and untruth attempt in every strict meaning, thereby cultivating a more than the difficult condition that would suppress the desire to pursue the tempting untruths of this world (Connop, 1885).
The Bible has called for a search for truth, and Greek gods have more of a false identity, and hence the greatest duty of the human is to find the ultimate truth which has engulfed the final source of peace and joy and hence for the same one would require the
References
Brooks, P. J. S (2000) Greek Mythology and The Bible, Open – Bible Ministries
Connop T., History of Greece (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855) vol.1, p.94.
re Phoroneus, the “Cain” of Argos, see Pausanias 11.15.4 & 11.19.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 143, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1980) vol.1, pps. 193-4; Apollodorus 11.1.1.
Kerenyi, C The Gods of the Greeks (Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 195B) pps. 144- 50, Graves, vol.1, pp. 63-67.
The Companion Bible (London, Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1 970) fn on Genesis 4: 18. “The myth of Deucalion’s flood… has the same origin as the Biblical legend of Noah,” Graves, vol. I. p.141.
Josephus, Antiqufties of the Jews l.iv.1 & C.H. Gordon, “Dodanim” The Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville & New York: Abingdon Press, 1962) vol.1, p.861.
Danaus, founder of Argos, & Cadmus, founder of Thebes. See Graves 195,200-204.