mythology vs christianity

Most Christians believe in the stories told in the Bible. These stories are usually regarded not only as stories, but as historical accounts of important people, events, and perceptions of the Christian faith. However, stories of Greek and Roman mythology are typically regarded as nothing more than fictional, fantasy stories. But just as many Christians would find it offensive to have their history viewed as unreasonable and oblivious to fact, it only seems logical that Greeks might as well. Therefore, it is of the upmost importance to try and understand that both Greeks and Christians hold similar beliefs about the world they live in.
If one examines the beginnings of Greek Mythology closely, they will find very distinct similarities between Greek Mythology and the book of Genesis. For example, when the first woman was created, according to Greeks, her actions let loose many evils upon mankind. These evils had been contained in a box that she had opened even though she was warned to never open it. This is similar to the story in Genesis. Even more shocking is the parallel found in the first prophecy of the savior. According to Greek Mythology after all the evil within the box had been released, hope for mankind came out of the box. The very first prophecy of the messiah comes directly after God describes the hardships that mankind will now face as a result of eating form the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is very strong evidence that both of the Greeks and the Jews had common ancestors. In both the Ancient Greek and Christian descriptions of the early world, there are stories of great floods that destroyed most of humankind. In the Bible's version of the flood, God becomes frustrated with the wickedness of the world and decides to destroy the earth with a flood, although it saddens him to do so. However, God found Noah to be a good and just man, and he asked Noah to build an ark. On the ark, Noah took his wife, three sons, their wives, and two of