Oh, I'm waiting to check "my history here" while waiting for you to document it, historically. Then I can really "check" history.
Documentation. Go get it. And then apply this to those who were accused by name with further documentation.
All we have thus far are accusations. Unsubstantiated accusations attached to names.
If you cannot provide this in documented detail, as well as those of others, said accusations will then be considered slander and false. Since you claim these to be true, you should have ready proof.
You've gone on to support this, now provide literal proof of these accusations.
Original Poster:
"Better check your history here p4t...Early Christianity was in fact influenced heavily by Platoism...."
Hi Preacher, the only documentation I could find of the influence of Plato on Christianity were from the non-believing critics of Christianity; smarter people than I could likely find some thin connections between our Church Fathers and Plato but the purpose of these unmerited claims is to discredit Christianity. What do you think the Apostle Paul would say to the people on this forum/thread who would diminish Christ work on the Cross and make heretical claims that our faith is some how connected to Plato -
foolish and harmful mistake; ye' men of
Sermon on Mars Hill
Acts 17:22-31
"So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,
“Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; [SUP]25 [/SUP]nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all
people life and breath and all things; [SUP]26 [/SUP]and He made from one
man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, [SUP]27 [/SUP]that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; [SUP]28 [/SUP]for in Him we live and move and [SUP][
b][/SUP]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.
Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. [SUP]30 [/SUP]Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all
people everywhere should repent,
[SUP]31[/SUP]because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
