Randimaxis

 One of my friends on a Discord server had this to say about it.

"If you view deities from a monotheist and polytheistic approach you will find that one finds a supreme being beyond all understanding and reason which must be feared while the other is about deities who are understandable and approachable in how human they act at times."

 That's why I find the Theoi more approachable than, say, Yahweh. I relate to them on a more intimate and personal level because I know how they feel.  As much as I respect the Judeo-Christian God, I can't relate to Him because He just...is. We may have been created, according to the Bible, as an extension of God ( presumably immortal, without ideas like sin or flaw) but we fucked that up almost immediately thanks to our lack of knowledge about those latter things.

And an apple.  Don't forget that.  *chuckle*

I can understand your response quite well, and I have similar views on such.  I am actually a Christian myself, but I have an open mind about many, many things.  I find God to be a subject that many people have opinions about, but nobody knows for certain; my own thoughts on Him may be wrong, after all, and I feel I have no right to claim certainty of such.

But that's pretty much what Faith is - it's believeing something you have no way of knowing whether it's true or not.  We have no way of actually KNOWING (at least, humanity hasn't achieved it yet), and that's why Faith is such a powerful thing; it is a person's honest-to-goodness self-assurance that their beliefs are true, without proof, and their entire soul feeling CERTAIN of such.  That certainty is what I believe to be what deities seek from humailty - faith and belief in them and their abilities.

... or something like that; I'm just a dork anyway, so what I say might be nothing but prattle.  }:)

I see the Greek gods in a kind of panentheistic sense - they don't exist physically in the same way that you and I do; to assume such is foolish, and misses the point of Greek mythology as a whole - interpretation of the unknown things that surround us. They exist in animistic, transcendental sense; they encompass the whole of the Universe, Space, and Time. Some would say the same thing about God.