Axial Age and Christendom Challenges
JBJ mentioned once, somewhere that while Israel was in Exile, God raised up systems of thought for us to deal with later.
Here are a few thoughts.
1--Greek Philosophy: This is handled by defenders, and by JBJ in his 'The Case Against Western Civilization':
Both of these groups advocate a return to the synthetic culture called "Western Civilization," an unholy (and unstable) mixture of Greco-Roman paganism and Biblical religion.
2--Buddhism. I haven't read much other than 'The Buddha from Babylon,' which if I remember correctly, held that he was leader of some sect, became short-time Emperor, and then went to India.
3--Confucianism. Some book with 'golden' in the title , I think, has worked on this, and the wonderful 'God's Promise (or Gift?) to the Chinese' which shows that early ideographs of Chines show the influence of Genesis story, and may have been done shortly after the Flood.
What else?
Love in King Jesus,
Chuck
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