/lit/ - Literature

Disregard the annihilationist NPCs for a minute, I have a question:
How do people usually go from Platonism to Christianity? Back when the Platonism general wasn't moved to /his/, I remember some people claiming that Christianity was the logical conclusion of Plato's philosophy. However, one of the main points Socrates makes in the dialogues about death and the soul is that 1. death is nothing to fear, 2. metempsychosis is true, 3. the purpose of material incarnation is a purification.
I can see how 3. can be tied back to the original sin, but the first two seem clearly incompatible with Christian doctrine.