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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug
that matter is bad is a neoplatonic import.
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No I think it is more profound than that.
Did all Hebrews believe, before Christ came in the flesh, that God would manifest himself in the flesh?
Afterwards, did they struggle with the Logos doctrine to reconcile it with the one God theory?
Am I opining Greek philosophy had no influence? Of course not.
However, jay's posturing is naive.
He basically states, "well in a vacuum God revealed the true nature of the Godhead to all who would listen and everybody understood. Furthermore, none disagreed or misunderstood."
Hence a pure original truth was broadly purveyed but polluted by those bad Greek speakers and thinkers.
It seems it is very far from the truth that the "truth" of Christ and his relation to Father was not easily understood. There were those who viewed him as a separate and distinct person, the gnostics, the adoptionists, and many others. Not all having links to Greek philosophy [as if that is one homogeneous whole].
Robison oversimplifies the debate and unnecessarily casts "Greek" culture as the bad guy in these developments, when Christianity never really had a complete purity of thought.