…Didn't you get the note? The 'gods' were really the planets Saturn, Venus, Mars (and eventually Jupiter overthrowing Saturn's reign), in the ancient solar system configuration. Myth, legends and scripture are all astronomical allegory for these celestial events. You're thinking too terrestrial, besides coming off as a tryhard.
…Someone had to come by and break up the circular debates, brought about by religion. This anon has no problem with speaking up and providing a reason & logic based perspective. This anon won't be subject to man made dogma.
…And here come the biblecucks. Quote more of those verses and continue to misinterpret the celestial allegory.
There is also the perspective that the human conscience is a special energy connected to the rest of the universe. Water, after all, has bipolar properties. "Free will' is that potential to change one's polarity, whether it be positive (good) or negative (evil). The dig goes so deep, that 'strange' loses all meaning.