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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I think the rise of our civilization required both Greek philosophy and the Bible. Christinity, in fact, is a synthesis of the two
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With you so far-- a really good point, actually.
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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
(though anamalously FARMS has defined this ynthesis as the Great and Abominable Church, ignoring, as you know, that Paul and the Gospel authors were Greek educated and Greek speakers and writers).
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But then you did this.
There are a LOT of Hellenistic ideas found even in the New Testament which were certainly a full-fledged part of the church Jesus established. The thing decried by the church is not the contribution Hellenistic thought made for the church-- it is rather the truths and principles that Hellenism (among other influences, Judaism being one of them) effectively engulfed and obliterated.
Anybody who says that Hellenism=Apostasy is being lazy (myself included).