16 February 2011

Between divine and mundane

The Bible apportions desert as between the divine and the mundane. 
While the Greek pantheon recognizes the action of the divine realm as distinct from the mundane realm, the Greek worldview does not apportion desert between man and god. Each realm seems to be operating under its own value system. 
The biblical system is more nuanced about the apportioning of credit and blame, about drawing clear lines between God and man, about erecting political, economic, and cultural and ideological systems where man and God are in a single governing entity. 
The harmony between divine and mundane in the Greek conception is a covenant in the Hebrew conception, and the difference between the two is the existence of a government that functions institutionally. 

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