[struggle]

Very doubtful. Peter and Paul talk extensively about the Trinity, were Jews, and I seriously doubt that Platonic beliefs had any sway with them.

These men were torn from Talmudic law to the new law of Christ - and Christ himself says in Mark 13:11:

But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

Even Aristotle spoke of the “prime mover” in his Metaphysics, and he was certainly more pertinent in that day and age as Alexander’s legacy was still fresh in the annals of history.

[DouglasKC]

Very doubtful. Peter and Paul talk extensively about the Trinity, were Jews, and I seriously doubt that Platonic beliefs had any sway with them.

I don't think that's accurate else why would our current understanding of the trinity have taken so long to develop and be finalized? it took over 300 years after the death of Christ to develop it...

[Frapster]

Facts are so inconvenient.

[Tublecane]

“[Aristotle] was certainly more pertinent in that day and age as Alexander’s legacy was still fresh in the annals of history”

What? Alexander didn’t leave any intellectual legacy, except insofar as his victories were a conduit through which Greek culture flowed to the surrounding area. Aristotle was one of those Greeks, but only one.

If you think of Alexander spreading Aristotle in particular because of the fact that Aristotle was employed at the Macedonian court and tutored Alexander, there isn’t any discernable Aristotelian influence in the Alexander of the annals. He’s pure conquest.