![]() ![]() This created a truly perverted scripture that rejected the Old Testament and added new fake scriptures like the Gospel of Judas and Gospel of Peter to retroactively justify itself. ![]() In the centuries that would follow, considerable efforts would be made to banish the ideas of Aristotle and Plato from the church to avoid heresies like those of the Gnostics, who applied Plato’s ideas to Christian cosmology. While Paul the Apostle repeatedly speaks to stoics and epicureans throughout the Roman Empire, he doesn’t addresses their ideas as meaningfully sufficient. Early Christians struggled with the question. It is a very real and meaningful thing to ask what philosophy has to do with religion and if they can even be combined in the first place. There is an age-old question that has haunted and confused millennia of Christians since far beyond when the church father Tertullian asked “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” And that is the question of syncretism. ![]()
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