RE: Hindu hell
January 29, 2019 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2019 at 7:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 29, 2019 at 7:15 pm)Belaqua Wrote:Indeed.(January 29, 2019 at 7:04 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: That's nice? How about the wonderful folks at creation.com, are they respected thinkers, or more respected thinkers? Probably not, and yet they manage to hit the nail on the head.
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https://creation.com/plato-and-christianity
If you Google around enough you can find pretty much anything.
Quote:I don't have a high opinion of people who call themselves creationists. As I pointed out at the beginning of this conversation, I am talking about non-literalist non-sola scriptura Christians.Neither do I, but they showed their work, and got the right of it.
Now, they obviously weren't going to say "and then those particular christians went full-on disingenuous exploitation of a wildly divergent god-concept"..but that's what they did. The long and short is that in no way is the christian god...nothing to do with sola scriptura or whatever....the platonic god. Classical philosophy was simply perceived to have great intellectual weight, and so..was coopted for the new god.
Mind, I don't think that you, in expressing the sentiment, are being disingenuous, more that the intervening centuries have scrubbed that initial relationship. They've been saying it for a long time, and saying it often.
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