Nicholas Thalasinos was born, raised and spent most of his adult life as Greek Orthodox. People have even claimed that he wasn’t even a member of the Messianic Jewish cult, but just attended one of their places of worship.
His romance with Messianics with Jewish trappings could hardly be farther from his Greek Orthodox background.
>> His romance with Messianics with Jewish trappings could hardly be farther from his Greek Orthodox background.
Oh, really? Hellenized Judiaism exerted a huge influence on early Christian theologians. “Of inscriptions found in the Jewish catacombs in Rome, fewer than 2% are in Hebrew or Aramaic, while 74% are in Greek and the remainder in Latin”. (from “The Archaeology of the New Testament”, 1992, Finegan, Jack, Princeton University Press, p. 325.)
Remember the Septuagint?