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Originally Posted by zeek
The coincidence is that before Plato one does not find a god who is all good anywhere in the world. After Plato you find many in the Alexandrian and then the Roman empires including Philo among the Jews. Why would you choose to ignore the correlation?
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Before Plato there is the One God in Israel Who is good. After Plato there is the One God in Israel Who is good.
I didn't ignore the correlation, I only expressed the opinion that it made little sense, as if Isaiah's or the Gospel's concept of God was somehow influenced by the first coming of Plato.