... Apologeticus works have gained maximum popularity. It is because it manifests the purposes of refuting the false claims of Pagans against religion and teaching the sacred cultural values to the existing and newly converted people. It can be viewed from his writing, that there were political influence on religion at that time, and higher religious posts were acquired by politically strong ... ...

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... Abraham, it is notably repeated to each of the successive patriarchs. Thus, when the Israelite's are exiled from the land of the covenant, questions inevitably arise as to what the existing relationship is between the Israelite's and their God, and, without answers to these questions, the narrative simply ends. The introduction of the Greek Bible into the narrative can then be ... ...

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... . The corporeal universe was created not by the True God, but by a divinity which was himself created when the Aeon Sophia (Wisdom) sought to familiarize herself with the perfect, pre-existing Aeon. This desire had to be separated from her in order for her to remain within the Pleroma; she thereby emanated from herself a defective being who fashioned material and psychic ... ...

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