RE: Understanding the bible
May 30, 2012 at 1:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2012 at 1:21 am by Epimethean.)
Epimethean Wrote:It is unlikely that Plutarch wrote any part of the bible. Please stop going on as if that is a fact.I'm really really interested in hearing from people around here why he's not related to the early Christian writings. Sorry for making you bite, but why do you think it's unlikely?
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Plutarch makes reference to gods as a plural, refers to Apollo as the greatest of the gods, then later suggests it is Zeus, and allows that demi-gods exist. This alone is sufficient to suggest that he is not in any fundamental way a christian, nor aligned with the christian program of thought; but further, Plutarch never makes reference to christ. At best approximation to christianity, Plutarch is a Platonist, and this, combined with his temporal overlap with the writers of the NT, sees him conflated with their number, but it is not through any set of facts and rather, through that most beloved of christian tools, through the very absence of facts to support the contention.
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