Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: A. Pole; exmarine
Right. The Socratic Cosmology given in the Timaeus is a must read:

Now to discover the Maker and Father of this Universe were a task indeed; and having discovered Him, to declare Him unto all men were a thing impossible. However, let us return and inquire further concerning the Cosmos,--after which of the Models did its Architect construct it?

Was it after that which is self-identical and uniform, or after that which has come into existence; Now if so be that this Cosmos is beautiful and its Constructor good, it is plain that he fixed his gaze on the Eternal; but if otherwise (which is an impious supposition), his gaze was on that which has come into existence. But it is clear to everyone that his gaze was on the Eternal; for the Cosmos is the fairest of all that has come into existence, and He the best of all the Causes. So having in this wise come into existence, it has been constructed after the pattern of that which is apprehensible by reason and thought and is self-identical.


107 posted on 05/09/2003 6:38:56 PM PDT by cornelis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies ]


To: cornelis
...for the Cosmos is the fairest of all that has come into existence, and He the best of all the Causes.

Are you saying that Socrates knew the true living God? Romans 1 tells us: For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

The question is - did Socrates believe in and glorify the one true God? Or was he a polytheist? If he was a polytheist, then he is subject to the next verse:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

173 posted on 05/12/2003 12:26:31 PM PDT by exmarine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 107 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson