I will just copy-paste texts from some encyclopedias and please feel free to comment on the extent Christian falsifications and appropriations of foreign philosophical concepts.
Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 7, page 449:
LOGOS (Greek:”word, “reason, speech, or plan”), plural logoi, in Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning. Though the concept defined by the term logos is found in Greek, Indian, Egyptian, and Persian philosophical and theological systems, it became particularly significant in Christian writings and doctrines to describe or define the role of Jesus Christ as the principle of God active in the creation and the continuation structuring of the cosmos and in revealing the divine plan of salvation to man. It thus underlies the basic Christian doctrine of the pre-existence of Jesus… The identification of Jesus with the logos was further developed in the early church but more on the basis of Greek philosophical ideas than on Old Testament motifs.
The concept of Logos was based on Greek philosophical ideas not on any prophecy or Old Testament “motifs” or Hebrew understanding at all. It is and remains a pagan philosophy of Hellenism.
The Religions of Ancient Greece and Babylonia clearly tells us that the Greek philosophical ideas were developed in Alexandria, Egypt from the pagan Babylonian mystery religions. These ideas pertaining to the meaning of Logos penetrated as a result of modern religious thought through the philosophy of Greece and Egypt. It was through syncretism that we have the word “Logos” or “Word” written in our English Bibles instead of “The Plan of Yahuah”:
The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Volume 3, page 1085
Among the systems offering an explanation of the world in terms of the logos, there are the Mystery Religions. These cultic communities did not see their task as lying in the communication of knowledge of a scientific nature, but of mysteries to their initiates who strove for purification in the recurrent enactment of sacred actions. The Foundation for these cultic actions was Sacred Text. Among them were the cults of Dionysus, the Pythagoreans, and the Orphic Mysteries. By means of these cults, non-Greek thought, such as in the Isis-Osiris Mysteries, which Osiris the logos created by Isis is the spiritual image of the world. Similarly in the cult of Hermes, Hermes informed his son Tat in the Sacred Text belonging to the cult, how by God’s mercy, he became logos, and thus a son of God. As such, he (Hermes) brought regulation and form into world, but himself remained a mediating being between God and matter, on one side, and God and man on the other. The logos can also, however, appear as the son of Hermes, resulting in a triple (trinity) gradation: God (who is Zeus), Son (Hermes), and LOGOS.
Now back to John Chapter 1 where this pagan philosophy of “Logos” was mistranslated into our English Bibles by uninspired Hellenized translators.
John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. *[see Heraclitus] 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
The word “word” in these verses comes from the Greek word logos. The Christians, so eager to promote the pagan Trinity, attached to the word every pagan interpretation. But they deliberately ignore the fact that John was a Hebrew Jew who had nothing to do with pagan Greek philosophy and the Gospel of John was not written from the pagan mindset associated with the Greek work logos. The Gospel of John was written from a Hebraic mindset and most probably penned originally in Hebrew not Greek.
Do you still have any doubts that Christianity is in reality a mish-mash of pagan philosophical concepts?
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