So you choose the Son of God philosopher/idealist, over the Son of God & Prince of Peace Augustus Ceasar? Am always very surprised to find out how little attention is given to this amazingly adept Roman ruler, his achievements establishing the Pax Romana which last some 200yrs is sometimes rightly called 'Pax Augusta' after hiim
Of course we all know that true peace comes from within & all the other nice Hellenist philosophical wisdoms which the proto-Jewish sect adopts & emulates. It never dawns on you that the greatest bulk of early Christians are all 99% Hellenized Jews? When one skips past all the lofty revelations references of sword in mouth, winged horse riding, heavenly Lord of Lords imagery that also was Greek inspired, one finds the Jewsih/Chrstians emerge mainly because of that Hellenist Stoic & Neo-Platonist philosophy from which they imitated & borrowed heavily
The folk fables are great for the oppressed common man,slave populations perspective. There had been an evolutionary leaning towards some emergent religious construction that would be inclusive of the lower & middle classes, a humanist religion where all could aspire to their heavenly reward, already going on in Egypt for some centuries.
Aside from the obvious attempts to later forge & fit prophecy into a supporting cast role,which Porphyry totally blows the doors off, no matter, the most intelligent & well thought out philosophical humanist essence was the perfection of man always Hellene inspired, you indeed still are a pagan. |
