No it was those who adopted the ideas of Plato, Empedocles and Xenophanes. Over the words of Christ.
The Hellenization of post apostolic Christianity is well established fact. Many modern Christians assume it was a good thing, but think of it like this...
If the US govt. (in all it's liberal glory, even those "moderate" republicans) plsu a bunch of University intellectuals took over the church in the US. How pure do you think the Doctrine would stay? Then mix it for a few hundred years.
>>The ‘word’ triune may not be there but I assure you the ‘concept’ is!
Only if you filter it through the intellectual framework of the Philosophers. To put it very bluntly, the liberal intellectual boy-lovers hijaked Christian understanding of the true nature of Christ.
>>>>The word ‘mormon’ can’t be found anywhere in the Greek text. But the word ‘mormo’ can be found in Anton LaFey’s satanic Bible.
Nobody claims "Mormon" is in the greek text making your argument null (a straw man). Funny you bring up "LaVey" as he took "Mormo" from Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate. LaVey got the word the same way we got "Homouosis" from the Greeks.
Wrong. Christ claimed equality with the Father (John 8:58) among many other places. So the triunity of God is not 'over the words of Christ' it IS the Word of Christ. Those who reject this truth of the true nature of God are the spirit of Antichrist. You didn't read my links did you????
The truth is Mormonism more closely adopts the ideas of Plato, etc. since it is a form of gnosticism - early heresies.
It is also a well established fact that Joseph Smith is a false prophet, a liar, and a fraud. Ergo, ANY other teaching that comes from the LDS is equally false, INCLUDING your false ideas regarding 'the hellenization of post apostolic Christianity'.
liberal intellectual boy-lovers hijaked Christian understanding of the true nature of Christ.
The only ones 'hijacking' the true nature of Christ is you and your fellow Mormons, at your own peril, following after the false teachings and dictates of a false prophet, and the fraudulent plagiarized monstrosity known collectively as the "Book of Mormon".
....as he took "Mormo" from Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate.
Exactly. Yet more proof of the 'real origins' of the LDS. Both Mormo and Hecate were gods of the underworld with a preoccupation with the dead, i.e, baptism for the dead. Sound familiar???? Coincidence?????? I think not.
When exactly did hellenization start, and define what you mean by it more precisely.
***The Hellenization of post apostolic Christianity is well established fact. Many modern Christians assume it was a good thing,***
The Greeks were the ones who did the documentation and it was from the ranks of the Greeks that the Church grew and spread the Good News of Jesus.
Acts describes the point when the Apostles finally broke with Judaism and became truly Christian (we had it as the first reading a couple of weeks ago in Mass).
God tried to get the Jews to accept Him throughout the OT and by and large failed. Jesus started the spreading of the Good News beyond the Jewish communities.
The NT was mostly written in Greek; God brought in the Greeks in order to make the Church successful. This is the Church of Jesus Christ, not an government of men. The analogy does not stand.
>> To put it very bluntly, the liberal intellectual boy-lovers hijaked Christian understanding of the true nature of Christ... Funny you bring up “LaVey” as he took “Mormo” from Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate. LaVey got the word the same way we got “Homouosis” from the Greeks. <<
Dude, you’ve let rage grab ahold of you. Seriously, you’re channeling it into typing, so you’re not experiencing it as violent energy, but you’re furious. Step away from the computer, settle down. You’re not making friends, or successfully expressing your arguments.