We have all enjoyed the ancient Greek and Roman myths, or at least endured them during English class. I for one remain fascinated by Greek mythology to this day. But a Bible passage I came across recently suggests that there was more than a little truth to those myths.
In Genesis chapter 6 we find that the sons of God chose human wives and thus the stories of epic heroes were born. Imagine living in a time when Hercules roamed the land, saving the weak humans from their own follies and the whims of the gods. Imagine seeing firsthand Zeus’s lightning bolts or feeling Cupid’s arrow strike your heart. After all, if these demigods were real, then gods or angels or whatever you want to call these divine beings must have been roaming the earth right alongside them.

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