In Greek’s culture gods and goddesses are ubiquitous from the highest heave to the lowest underworld; everything and everything in it could be worshipped by human beings. Therefore, the seasons can be representative of four kinds of gods; Muse,one of the nine goddesses who preside over the arts and sciences, become the root word of music. All Greek gods and goddesses are humanized to suit their needs and desires and to explain the unexplainable. They eat, drink, mate, and feel emotions. The Greeks made their gods in their own image; not a certain god made them.

As Paul was in Athens, he saw that the city was full of gods and he was deeply trouble by the idols everywhere. He went to the synagogue to reason with the jews and to the marketplace or the pubic square to talk with anyone who happened to be there. Some Athenians responded to him saying, “He seems to be preaching about some foreign gods” Acts 17:18). The God Paul talked about to them was only any foreign god like a god or goddess in Athens. But as Paul continued to explain to them this God who made the world and everything in it and who was made flesh and died and rose from the dead, some people started to laughed at him and walked off making jokes about him. Of course some Greeks accepted his message and became believers.

Our culture resemble Greek’s in ways that we worship various gods and made temples for them to dwell in. We don’t make gods in our image in our culture but deify some saints and heros in hopes that they would bless us. As Jesus son of God is preached in this culture, most of us like the Greeks feel like Jesus is just another “foreign god”, some sort of merchandise imported from America or a western country. But the reality is that he came to save the whole world as Paul said to the Athenians in verses 30-31, “But now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”