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No Plato, No Scripture? | Hans Boersma

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The Apostle Paul and Plato

Paul is an educated man. He knows Plato. We have evidence that he interacted with these concepts. There's even I've even seen an argument that he quotes Aristotle at one point. And so the thought categories of their world are up are brushing up against his thought category. So what we're reading in Scripture is not this alien is sort of Eastern philosophy that has no like interaction with Plato. This is actually in the same world as Plato.

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