Tema: Analyzing the Evidence of Stoic Influence in Judaic-Christian Thought.

There are no doubt influences as far as style and language. That's normal and understandable. But the article is the typical modernistic garbage that tries to interpret the Scriptures from a human standpoint and debunk the Word of God. There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian thought. Neither Judaism nor Christianism are philosophies, so the word "thought" is out of place. The author also confounds the deuterocanonical books with the Apocrypha (a typical Protestant mistake - they throw them all together).

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There are no doubt influences as far as style and language. That's normal and understandable. But the article is the typical modernistic garbage that tries to interpret the Scriptures from a human standpoint and debunk the Word of God. There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian thought. Neither Judaism nor Christianism are philosophies, so the word "thought" is out of place. The author also confounds the deuterocanonical books with the Apocrypha (a typical Protestant mistake - they throw them all together).

Lacking divine cognition how is a human to interpret something except from the standpoint of the purely human? Given that the Holy Writings are written for a human audience, in various human languages (and not, say, some angelic or primeval language like the so-called Enochian), the idea that humans wouldn't attempt to understand them is strange.

The Bible is an inspired Book, not revealed literally as the Koran. It is the Revelation, yes, but the Holy Spirit used human beings and their God-given talents to write it. That's why it needs interpretation and the Church has kept the deposit of Tradition and we have the Magisterium. When everyone follows their own understanding and interprets it without proper preparation, from their human standpoint and especially when they lack a Christian background and education, everyone has their own incomplete interpretation and sects multiply. But Tradition is a whole and makes sense as a whole. It's not strange but natural to want to understand. But that doesn't mean everybody is capable of understanding. You need orientation.