/lit/ - Literature

>>13716392
You have me there.

I know because I've studied history and the OT and the NT and started with the greeks. Hellenized Jews before the first century were absolutely mad for Platonic philosophy. The coming of a messiah was expected, and Jesus was inevitable. God came down to Piraeus, to Nazareth, to be like a son of man. Guys like Philo and Paul and the apostles testified to it, most of them with their death. And the Neoplatonists and scholastics who came later confirmed it by reasoned argument.

I am not equal to the task of expressing truth here that can really only be revealed mystically. God as first principle, the Aristotelian prime mover. The uncaused cause in the beginning, in Genesis, and John 1 confirms Jesus was there in hypostasis. Jesus as God, creator of all, as a man and as a teacher. Teaching that which is the sole satisfier of man: the purest love, agape. The love of God and by that love the forgiveness of others, because emnity is the enemy. Where Jesus is, people are united. Where he is not, they are divided against each other. I wish I could thrust my mind upon you. Grace rains down upon us daily, we only need exercise the theological virtues faith, hope, and charity, and obey his command: love one another. Be merciful. When you next have a chance to strike, to harm with a word, withhold. That's the start to knowing.