The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Three
Cosmic Messages in the SSnet.org series Lesson 10, may the Holy Spirit
be the speaker to your heart.
The Topic today is:
"Wrap it up with Plato on Immortality which he got from the Egyptians for
Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Three Cosmic Messages”.
The Opening Hymn
will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."
The Sabbath School
Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 86.
The SSnet.org site
allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your
own language to see God speaking also to your heart.
Why do you not
click on this now?
--- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:2Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ223_10.pdf
---When Plato’s teacher Socrates died on
the 15th of February 399 BC, Plato and his friends fled to other
cities and eventually to Egypt. ---He studied there presumably for a
number of years, but scholars are not certain about the reality of this. Famous
scholars do say he studied there. ---We never hear Plato say that the body
has a soul. ---But, after his visit to learn under the
priests of Egypt presumably at Heliopolis, we suddenly find Plato talking about
the soul of man that is immortal! ---Why? For Egyptians the soul was called
ka and the ka was immortal. So while the Great Pyramid of Giseh has a place for
the sarcophagi and mummified body to lay in the middle of the triangle of the pyramid,
from there tunnels go up on two side to the top. Why? So that the immortal ka
can travel in and out when it wants. ---So in 375 BC Plato wrote The Republic.
When? After the Egyptian education under the priests with their Egyptian
theology of the immortality of the soul. Right? ---But then in Book X at paragraph 608
just before paragraph 609, of The Republic, Plato said that he believed in the immortality
of the soul. Explicitly. ---His friend thought that you cannot
prove it. ---Plato said that he can. Plato then
talked about evil, death, murder, sin that cannot destroy the soul but it can destroy
the body. Good will never destroy the soul, Plato said. So he felt that he
proved the immortality of the soul. ---Wow, Plato, visiting Egypt you picked
up your garbage ideas of Immortality of the Soul from them and put it on a
plate for your own people at Athens. ---They swallowed it and when the books of
Athens were stolen by the Romans and taken there to their state libraries, the
ideas were continued. ---And Christians studying in the Roman Libraries
took it over and imported it into their thinking. ---Augustine was a regular reader of
Plato. Occasionally the Bible. ---Plato: “All things that perish are
destroyed by some inherent evil” and Augustine liked this very much for his
doctrines of Original Sin. Now you know. ---Is your church teaching still the
immortality of the soul. You must get to a proper church. ---You cannot say, but God is a loving God
and will not keep it against people for holding this view. ---He did. With Eve in the Garden of Eden
and we still suffer. Right? And Christ died for this simple matter. ---So get out. You do not want to be naïve
like Eve. Right. When? Now.