Blogs by Pastor Boggs

Greek philosophers influence on our modern day Christianity goes back way further than just John Calvin’s studies and infatuation with Plato during the protestant movement of the 1500’s.

It was St. Augustine of Hippo (another huge influencer on much of our modern day Christianity) who by his own admission said that it was his early studies of Plato that eventually led him to embrace catolicism as early as the 3rd century.

Augustine’s musings alone helped shape much of the mindset and beliefs about God, heaven and hell that many still hold tightly to today. His ideas prevail significantly in catholicism and as well pour out into the latter branches of the protestant movement of Calvin’s own day.

There is no sound denying that The Greek Philospers from as far back as the 6th century B.C (before Christ) had a heavy influence on early Church Orthodoxy.

“Greeks” (the name given to people from Greece by The Romans) has influenced not only our English langauge but so much of who we have become and even how we “Worship God” in our western culture.

One of the most obvious distinctions between Greek and early Hebrew philosophy was the Greek’s unique way of dividing, categorizing and compartmentalizing whereas early Hebrew thought processes (found in judiasm’s roots) were more about the coming together of a thing.

Unfortuanately, we often seek more to divide and catergorize everything and everyone into identifiable boxes like we do to each other in religion and politics (a very Greek thing to do) and have sadly lost the original Hebrew Gospel Message, The Good News of Jesus!

The King of Heaven born here on Earth to take the planet and humanity back and to start the long beautiful trajectory of all things in Heaven and Earth becoming one!

With Faith the size of a very small mustard seed…

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done on Earth!

The Good News of The Kingdom of God come with The Birth of The King and whose Love and Spirit has been advancing all over the planet from generation to generation without fail ever since!