Zohar Atkins - The OG Weirdos: Ep. 48
Good Faith Effort
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The Importance of Divine Law in Society
Zoharakans says the Bible and Greek tradition are unified in affirming centrality of divine command. But from there, they completely diverge because for the Greek system, divine law is universal,. It's applicable equally in every time and every place; it's non-changing. For most of history, those two worldviews kind of exist in parallel, but not in contact. As the fourth century comes to a close, that cataclysmic moment of meeting when Alexander conquers the east.
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