Is Christianity just a combination of Judaism with Ancient Greek Mystery Religions and Plato’s philosophy?
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It is a work of fiction. Christianity is a creation of Rome’ s elite. It is a perfect vehicle to control thier artificially created slave class from killing them. Mind body and soul. and boy has it worked well.
Humanity has been suckered.
Practicing Shaman… quantum physics rocks.
Christianity is Jesus Christ and believing He is the God/Man. All others
are false. No, it’s not a combo.
Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.
Not even possible. It was those religions that Plato opposed and he was honored by the early Christians because his thought was so close to Christianity.
The Christian Element in Plato and the Platonic Philosophy
by Constantin Ackermann,
No most of these websites all that I have seen are easily disproved with very little research.
As far as Judaism goes, their holy book makes up the first part of the Christian holy book, so there was definitely borrowing there.
And like it or not, early Christianity was heavily influenced by Pagan philosophers, and many Pagan practices were “Christianized” and absorbed into Christianity after violence failed to completely wipe out the Pagan ways. Holy water? Pagan. The format of a mass? Pagan. Some of the “saints” or “demons”? Pagan gods. Most of the dates (astrologically timed) and underlying symbolism of the holidays? Pagan.
Now with that said, there are some misconceptions. One, the actual experience of Greek religion is quite different from Christianity in that they were more united by their deities, practices, rituals, festivals and ceremonies than by any dogmatic codes. One can believe different things theologically and still be practicing the Greek religion (ancient or modern).
Two, despite the Church’s best efforts to make it appear so, Plato was NOT a monotheist, nor did he ever “renounce” the Paganism of his time. Some people need to actually *read* what he wrote. In Timaeus, he writes of a creator deity that makes the gods and the world and basically turns it over to the gods of the Greek pantheon, and it is those gods who were said to create man according to Plato. Plato’s creator deity is not the same as the monotheist god of Judaism or Christianity, despite the pains taken to equate them as such.
I recommend reading Greek Religion by Walter Burket, as well as some good translations of Plato’s work, specifically Republic and Timaeus.