The problem with the Christian conception of God being the absolute principle of reality is that in the Old Testament, he acts far too personally and far too emotionally to be equated with the Monad of Platonic philosophy.Now, if the events of Old Testament were treated as purely allegories rather than literal historical events, I wouldn’t have an issue with this portrayal of God. But it isn’t treated as an allegory, Christians genuinely believe that the events of the Old Testament really did happen as described, even though in reality the Old Testament is at best equivalent to the Song of the Nibelungs—a bunch of scattered myths and unrelated historical events all conflated together due to society being semi-illiterate and nobody at the time of its composition could dispute it because of said semi-illiteracy.
>>18401922Also, the concept of the Logos is not Christian in-origin and I'd argue it's actually incompatible with Christianity's conception of God. The Logos is a Stoic concept which predates Christianity and the Stoics identified the Logos not with some 1st century Judean preacher, but with the Greco-Roman god Zeus. While Zeus does frequently engage in questionable behavior in the myths, the Stoics viewed them not as literal historical events, but as allegories. The traditional anthropomorphic depiction of Zeus as a bearded man was also viewed as symbolic rather than a literal depiction of what Zeus actually looked like as they believed Zeus to be an abstract metaphysical spirit.Christianity by-contrast unironically believes the myths that portray their God as anthropomorphic are actual historical events instead of purely allegories.
>>18401922Monotheism and the trinity far predates either Platonism or Judaism, read Uzdavinys.
>>18401922Comparing the OT to the Nibelungenlied is wild, considering one is fact that defined civilizations, and the other is fiction that only German pagan LARPers know about.But even then, some Christians don't take the OT seriously. There's a long tradition, starting with Origen of Alexandria, of just interpreting the Bible how you want, which is what Christians love to do. Furthermore, God doesn't act "too emotionally." Thomas Aquinas, Augustine of Hippo, and others claimed that God can both be the absolute ground of being and a personal being too. Plato's Monad is exactly what the God in the Old Testament is described as being.
