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The New Testament was born in a world where two major currents intersected:
Biblical/Jewish tradition
One God, creator, personal.
History with meaning (creation → covenant → salvation).
Hope for a definitive future (Messiah, resurrection, judgment).
Greco-Roman world
Greek language, philosophical categories of Plato, Aristotle, Stoics.
Concepts such as logos (reason, meaning of the universe), soul, virtue, human nature.
The New Testament is written in Greek and uses many of these categories. Classic example: the prologue to the Gospel of John (“In the beginning was the Logos”) dialogues de facto with Stoic and Platonic philosophy, but reinterprets it in a Christian key.
We all need a moral foundation, but our parents' moral foundation is not always perfect, and the moral foundation of states is corruption. So what will your moral foundation be? That of social media? That of your favorite influencer?
My moral foundation is my culture, the New Testament, only adapted to times of war. I am not Jesus Christ; I do not have that capacity to forgive my enemies.
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morality comes from thinking, not because someone said so
John 1:1 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Beginning - ἀρχή
ajrchv arche {ar-khay'}
from 756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
The beginning in John 1:1 is Archy as in an-archy.
Nice try, Satan.
2 timothy 2:7
Cooperation is the most stable state, everyone benefits more when we work together.
Morality exists and is incentivized regardless of whatever fill in the blank leaders you choose to outsource personal responsibility to.
Democracy, religion, central banking, all a viral systems that can only destroy property rights and there potential damage scales exponentially with size.
Just gotta take a NAP
