Did the stoics invent the Trinity?
| Monday 8th March 2010 10:40pm 1 |

perpetualstudent
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I am reading Karen Armstrong's "A Case for God" right now and she
said something very interesting. "They [stoics] saw the whole of
reality as animated by a fiery vaporous breath that Zeno called
Logos ("Reason"), Pneuma ("Spirit"), and God." When I read that,
the first thoughts that crossed my mind were "Gospel of John" and
"Trinity." I already knew that ideas like incarnation and the
death/resurrection of God's was not originally a Christian concept.
Is that true for the Trinity as well? Does anybody here know much
about the stoics and can you recommend any good books about them?
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| Tuesday 9th March 2010 03:22am 2 |

Infidel
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I don't know about that, but there is a Jewish Kabbalistic teaching
referred to as The Three Pillars which some believe was the
foundation for Christianity's trinity.
Since the very first Christians were Jews who lived in a Greek
culture and later gentiles came into the fold, it is very possible
that they synthesized both the kabbalistic and the stoic ideas of
the godhead.
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