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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

The American professor of theol-
ogy Dr. Paul R. Eddy noted this and made

the following comments on the subject in a
paper "Was Early Christianity Corrupted by
Hellenism?":
The ancient world, as far back as Babylonia, the
worship of pagan gods grouped in threes, or
triads, was common. That influence was al-
so prevalent in Egypt, Greece, and Rome in
the centuries before, during, and after
Christ. After the death of the apostles, such pa-
gan beliefs began to invade Christianity. . . .
While [Plato] did not teach the Trinity in its
present form, his philosophies paved the way
for it. (Dr. Paul R. Eddy, "Was Early Christianity
Corrupted by 'Hellenism’?", http://www.xmark.com/fo-
cus/Pages/hellenism.html)

The general belief in paganism, especially in Greek and
Roman paganism, was that the greatest of the three gods mar-
ried a mortal woman and that she gave birth to a male child,
who was also a god or quite often, a demigod.
● Belief in a child god born to a mortal woman
bears a very close similarity to the present day

Christian belief in the Trinity.
Ancient Greek philosophers fabricated the
idea of god through logical deductions from the
physical world. However, they were unable to
fathom how a god they regard-
ed as unchanging and eter-
nal could create finite
and changing entities.

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