Christians should read anything they feel the Lord is leading them to read in order to broaden their knowledge bases. And they should read with intense discernment of spirits.
Paul was extraordinarily conversant with all the thinking of those scholars on Mars’ Hill.
We should not adopt the pagans’ teachings; but we should be aware of them. In fact it would pay Christians to know paganism even better than the pagans do. It’s part of being able to give everyone an answer.
The true Christian life is hard. They put both Jesus and Socrates to death for going against the state. Socrates questioned the state gods of Athens and Jesus questioned the Pharisees of Jerusalem. Both were trouble makers — good at being bad as far as the state was concerned. Virtue will not keep you out of trouble but the profit, for the most part, is your soul.
Why do I want to go to the world for wisdom. God said the wisdom of the world was foolishness to Him. Jesus has been made wisdom to us. I’ll go to Him.
How ever will you know your enemy?
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Jesus had to stand before Thomas before Thomas would believe Jesus has Risen.
Jesus’s rebuke was mild, and not “AWAY WITH YOU FOR NOT BLINDLY BELIEVING”. He knew that God has created some men to think that way.
We have God’s works all around us, and Jesus’s words of wisdom and hope in books, which CAN require Reason and Logic to SEE, and to Understand, and THEN Believe.
God did not give us just one path to Belief in Him.
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