Malachi151

This whole problem originated from the merger for Greek philosophical concepts of God with the anthropomorphic tribal god of the Hebrews.

The Stoics and other Greeks who developed the concept of God as a timeless, perfect, eternal, all knowing, all powerful being who was essentially the prime mover of the universe had already argued against and rejected the anthropomorphic concepts of the Greek gods.

They had completely rejected the Homeric myths and the gods of the temples in favor of Divine Providence.

Then along came Christianity and they merged the advanced philosophical concepts of God from among the Greeks with the old tribal God of the Hebrews, which basically totally undid all of the work that they did in casting out anthropomorphic concepts from their God concept.

Now they were stuck with something even worse. The ideas of Divine Providence, a timeless, all knowing, all powerful prime mover, piggy backed on top of the tribal Hebrew god.

This was inconceivable to Stoics and the like of course, it would have been like telling them that Zeus was the same of Providence, utter rubbish.

So now we have this advanced concept tied into the OT God, which clearly raises all kinds of inconsistencies.