/lit/ - Literature

>>16593958
The difference is total Origenist allegorization of the bible is heresy in Catholic/Orthodox/Oriental church. You cannot hand wave away these acts as ahistorical and have to believe they all were said and implied and done. That you accept triple meanings in all your text doesn't remove the reality of the first meaning, the second and third builds upon the prior one, they don't refute them.
And as always, Protestantism isn't Christianity and is utterly philosophically irrelevant (like new age or mormonism/scientology).
God has never ordered the death of children through blunt violence, ergo: Christianity is false.

Hesiod Thegony is similar to the Akkadian/Assyrian theology.
But only a Christian or Atheist would use this as an argument that the former is derivative of the latter.

>>16431565
>Doesn't realize Thrasymachus' and Callicles' arguments were just Plato's own Heraclitean ideas before his extra-transcendent ascendance to Zeus Hyperion.

The Apollonian and Dionysian are only divided here below. It's realizing their unity that transcends all beauty.

To proclaim monism is to deny God's infinite potency. Because he is what he is—we truly are, for the One is the principle of Individuality. The One & The Good, God—The Limited and the Limitless, Like and Unlike, Strife and Love, Motion and Rest—their mixture, LIFE-INTELLECT-POWER
The Absolute is Beyond Being and therefore cannot be said to all things, yet he is eternally Omnicentral to all in all.

>>13744778
See that picture?
Πρωτογόνου βασιλέως αἰδοίου∙ τῶι δ’ ἄρα πάντες ἀθάνατοι προσέφυν μάkαρες θεοὶ ἠδ̣ὲ θέαιναι kαὶ ποταμοὶ kαὶ kρῆναι ἐπήρατιο ἄλλα τε πάντα , ἅ̣σσα τότ’ ἦγγεγαῶτ ’ , αὐτὸς δ’ ἄρα μοῦνος ἔγεντο.

[this also applies directly against the gnostics]

Thomas Taylor Sallust On the Gods and the World.
Thomas Taylor's "Oracles and Mysteries"
And M.L West's Orphic Poems; and his 'Indo-European Poetry and Myth'.
Robert Fagles' Iliad-Odyssey-Aeneid trilogy.
The book called: Selected Myths (of Plato—Oxford).