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Pastimes : Chatting With and About God the Father
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To: Gregory D. John who wrote (305)7/22/1998 1:56:00 AM
From: Jane Hafker  Read Replies (2) of 638
 
Greg, please forgive me for mixing apples and oranges, almost literally. But don't look at the Greek empire as that clean and pure. Every tiny detail of the Roman empire was culled from the Greek.

Just cut out a lot of babble because I'm in one of those "everything seems so interesting right now" moods and just feel like babbling about history for hours. But there is nothing under the sun or in history to me that doesn't turn right around and lead back to God/then Jesus. Even Plato's greatness. I could be wrong, of course. He could have been nothing more than an interesting pagan creep with an excellent command of the Greek and great ability to sling bs around. But I prefer to think he blundered upon the unknown God Paul speaks of 400 years later. And so I would attribute some of his greatness to his finding God under adverse and improbably circumstances, rather than him being a light separate from God, and certainly as interesting, to whom persons such as myself should look for even greater wisdom than found in the Bible. If that's what you meant, I've heard it about 50 times at least. So, of course, I have other views on that.

I was looking through the basic premises of his writings, and frankly he was rather basically pagan/humanist, but the actual chapters I read I do remember being astounded that he HAD to be talking about the heavenly Father to some extent, most certainly not anything vaguely resembling pagan Greece or later Rome.
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