Different accounts of the gods!

[hannahs]

My ideal God would be Noah's god as well. I agree with you, why would I praise a God that's just as flawed as me? I think the difference between God and a human is that he is all knowing and powerful while all humans make mistakes. I wouldn't be able to trust a god that makes mistakes. How would I trust him to protect me if he wasn't perfect?

[minjaeyang]

I also think that the Gods from the story of Gilgamesh is too human-like and not much God-like. For instance regretting after causing the flood or punishing Gilgamesh for rejecting the love of the God or even the fact that half-God, half-human can exist clearly shows how those Gods are not that different from humans themselves and share the same kind of emotions as humans. My ideal image of God is closer to that of the God in the Book Genesis where God is almighty and he has created Earth, heaven, humans and animals all with his hands.

[sarahlee4]

I believe in God from Genesis. Just as many of you guys stated before, no one wants to worship and praise a God who makes mistakes. If. Im worshiping a God, He better be perfect! haha jk.. well not really..yeah he should be all knowing and never make any mistakes. Im not tryna hurt anyones feelings or opinions but honestly, i believe that the gods in Gilgamesh were a little bit impatient and short tempered. I mean, the real reason why they destroyed the whole human population is because they were too loud..uh...yeah..how selfish...they couldve given them a warning or something.

[davidh]

Since I'm more familiar with the god from the christian bible story, I guess I prefer the story of the Noah. Also, I prefer Noah's story because the Noah's story is more straight forward than the story from Gilgamesh story even they the have similar meaning of story.

[sujeonggg]

I think the one who is called "God" shouldn't make any mistakes. What it means as a God is that he knows everything, does everything, and can do anything. But if I feel that God makes a mistake, then I might not be as faithful as before.

[sarahlee2]

The God that I believe in is closer to the Hebrew God from Genesis. I believe that God is omniscient and that He doesn't make mistakes. Likr you said Stormy, it would be hard to trust a god that makes mistakes and is just like people, who do things spontaneously and based on their emotions at the time.

[kevin]

im bored stormy

[sageda]

I agree with you. If I were to devote myself to a god, He'd have to be perfect, right? What's the point of living my life following an imperfect being? I wouldn't find sustenance or anything in him. But I don't think God showed grief. If he were to show grief, that means he made a mistake. And God doesn't make mistakes. I think he was simply telling Noah that he won't flood the Earth again. There may be more corruption but he is promising this to be the last time.

[joannekim]

Even though gods from Gilgamesh may seem more humane and friendly, my ideal god is closer to Noah's God. To me, God knows and is able to control everything. Noah's God is also not apathetic-he does express grief after the flood and makes promise with Noah later. However, gods from Gilgamesh is too like us-I'm fine with them making errors, but I do not like the part where they blame on each other for the destruction. Only immature people who do not accept their mistakes do that...I would not want to worship that kinds of gods.

[edward08]

i think as the god in gilgamesh because i see god as a human like god in which i image god in my own life.
im not religious or anything but just saying my own perspective against how god might be imaged like.

[davidh]

Even though i said the ideal god is Noah's story, I change my mind. I think there is no ideal god .. i mean its just a story and they have story that doesn't even make sense..... I think story has to be left as a story. I guess I'm saying this because I don't believe god and all the story from long time ago.... unless they are very interesting.

[jessicak016]

I used to believe in God, whom Christians believe. So you could say my ideal god was closer to the one from Noah and the Flood.
For me, it would feel weird, if the God (I used to believe in) has flaws like the gods from Gilgamesh.
But on the other point of view, those gods from Gilgamesh show regret and sadness of what they have done to the humans. And maybe we might feel closer to them.

[yerin0727]

I also think that the god from Noah is more of an ideal god. What most of us imagine gods to be is that they are those that have supernatural powers and those that never tend to make mistakes at all. Since we praise gods, gods that make mistakes would not be much reliable for us to trust upon.

[jinseong]

I personally believe that Noah's God is close to what I think of a God. I also believe God as the world, and the whole, who is very perfect in everything like in the story of Noah's.

[joon]

I agree with you stormy. In my opinion, I think the god in Noah's story most resembles my opinion of my god. In Gilgamesh, i kind of got the idea that the god's, after knowing that they had made a mistake, blamed the problem on one god, who had only listened to what the gods told him to do. Also, the gods in Popol Vuh seem pretty heartless and selfish. Because they weren't praised by creations that they had created and failed to perfect, they decided to punish their creations. It's not like the creations wanted to be imperfect in their gods eyes. Pretty selfish, in my opinion.