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Originally Posted by Highland Thistle
THE GOD WHO IS ABOVE ALL GODS
The noted Dr. Cyrus Gordon concluded his book, "Homer and Bible," by stating, "Bold spirits have intermittently maintained the kinship of early Greece and the ancient Near East… we view Greek and Hebrew civilizations as parallel structures built upon the same East Mediterranean [i.e., Hebrew] foundation." (p. 72) .
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Actually I wander if the roots of the Hellenic Civilisation are not as old, if not older than those of the Hebraic one or that both Hellenic (via pre-hellenic settlers i nthe balkan) and Hebrews did not share some cultural patterns inherited from the first agriculturalists of the middle east
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Originally Posted by Highland Thistle
Yes, these people were not adopting a new religion with the coming of Christianity; they were rediscovering the religion of their forefathers in its purified form, as sent unto them by our Lord in the flesh, Jesus Christ. By God’s design, these people forgot who they were, where they came from, and what their past religion was, all in His Plan of preparing them to again become united with the ONE TRUE GOD, who came unto them in the form of man, Our Lord Jesus.
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Plato talked in his dialogues (I do not remenber if was Thymeas or in Critias) of a Demi-uge god who was father of all the other Gods; I wander if the shrine to the unknown god mentioned by Paul was not in fact a shrine built for this Demiurge of Plato