Re: Charles Lindbergh's 1939 Reader's Digest article -
10-30-2009, 09:45 AM
Mark,
Many of the Classical Greeks were truly Proto-True Christian™. Of course, they are burning in hell, but God did use them to set an example for the rest of us in the future so their lives were not in vain.
Take Plato for example. His allegory about "shadows in a cave" is a beautiful and wonderful rendition of what life was like before Christ. Plato realized we could not understand reality (God) for what it was. He likened it to a bunch of seeing the shadows of something else, illustrated on cave walls.
Once Christ came into being, that gap was bridged. We were then allowed to see God who He is through the King James Bible. The Bible allowed us not to have to look to cave walls, but to see outside the cave. Plato was simply a pawn in God's plan to explain how Salvation® works.
Or take the glorious example of Alexander the Great. He conquered many mud races under his majestic white empire. The Persians, the Indians, and whatever brown races were put under subjugation by a White Emperor. God used Alexander as an example of how Christianity should be today. The White Man needs to civilize the lesser races and bring Christianity to them.
So, while the relationship between Classical Greek culture and modern Christianity are highly nuanced, there is a strong link between them. God put those idolatrous heathens to good use by providing historical inspirations for modern day True Christians™.
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