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 major influence on much of our modern-day Christianity) who, by his own admission, said that his early studies of Plato eventually led him to embrace Catholicism 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 also permeate the later branches of the Protestant movement of Calvin’s own day.

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

“Greeks” (the name given to people from Greece by the Romans) has influenced not only our English language 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 Greeks’ unique way of dividing, categorizing, and compartmentalizing, whereas early Hebrew thought processes (found in Judaism’s roots) were more about the coming together of a thing.

Unfortunately, we often seek more to divide and categorize 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 was 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 comes with The Birth of the King, whose Love and Spirit have been advancing all over the planet from generation to generation without fail ever since!