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Stoicism

Thinking Fellows

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The Incompatibility of Stoicism and Christianity

Christianity has a low anthropology or high anthropology right as opposed to stoicism. Your ability as a human being to save yourself let alone save anybody else before holy god is Zippo according to the scriptures and according to stoicism well you might actually be able to make some inroads on that if you roll up your sleeves and get the work done. There's no category for grace mercy or forgiveness really here and that's one of the biggest incompatibilities so not only does Christianity have a low anthropology it's got a high view of god in Christ  that's by god having a gracious attitude or disposition toward the sinner because of the person and work of Jesus Christ yep I

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