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Originally Posted by jay santos
Let's just make a real simple example.
Paul and the apostles were taught that God has a body of flesh.
They teach that to the early Christian church.
During the time period 50 AD - 150 AD, the doctrine is changed to one believing God has no body of flesh but has a body of spirit.
So the early Christian church went from teaching a correct doctrine to teaching an incorrect doctrine, based on an influence of Greek culture.
Ignoring all the virtues of the classic civilizations and the good it has had on the world in learning and education and progress and ignoring the enormous influence this had on the Jewish world at the time of Christ, you can still make a very simple argument that FURTHER Hellenization of the early Christian church had an impact of the modification of certain doctrines. Why would someone fight against this so aggressively?
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You're making something simple which is not so simple.
Let's address the concept of a tangible God and the homoousias and homoiousias discussions. Those arose not out of Greek philosophy but out an attempt to reconcile the One God concept and how to deal with Christ. It was not a Greek problem but a problem of the reconcilers, which existed in the Church from early on, probably starting with the Jews. To pin theological errors upon Greek culture is misleading IMHO.