SocratesApology And The Hebrew Bible

Socrates does not have good citizen characteristics in Aristophanes’ Clouds , for, he behaves outside the political community. The primary example of his individualism is his disregard for the common beliefs of his society. Greek gods get credited for many of the societies occurrences, yet Socrates tries to disprove the work of the gods throughout his life. In Clouds, Strepsiades goes to Socrates to learn unjust and just speech. The first lesson Socrates teaches him that “we do not swear by the gods”(Aristophanes 248). In response to this statement, he asks Socrates what gods he swear by, and for the rest of the play, Socrates praises the clouds as gods. He is a brazen man who denies the power of Zeus, the infamous god. His beliefs against the greek gods makes Socrates appear as a radical. In connection to his lack of worship for the

This caused the judge of Athens to look at the situation in his point of view; making the jury understand why he will start with the recent allegation. Defending against his first accusation of youth corruption, Socrates starts to rebut his defense with an example, questioning how a person could be the sole purpose of corrupting the youth of Athens, as only a limited amount of people are skilled enough to train a horse. The second accusation that he defended from was impiety. Conversely, to defend himself, he showed that there is a fallacy in the argument. How can one believe in atheism, while he creates personal deities, no single person can preach both religion along with

One of the charges that Socrates was facing was being impious towards the Gods recognized by the state of Athens and thus being a bad influence, but he did address this accusation in his apology. When someone reads this dialogue they will quickly notice that Socrates was not really apologizing, he was defending his actions trying to prove that he was innocent knowing that he will most likely be found guilty regardless of what he says. From his defence we can develop and have a logical assumption of how he feels towards religion. Although Socrates was found guilty of the charges I still believe that he was innocent of being impious towards the gods and being a negative influence.

Two important cultural streams throughout history, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian, have different viewpoints on the significance of death and the way one should live their own life. This is evident in the texts Plato, Five Dialogues and the Gospel of Matthew. In each of these texts two well-known men, Socrates in Plato and Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, are put to death by their society. Each of these men has similar, but also different ideas about how to fulfill their own lives even though they know they are going to die. According to Socrates, living the good life is asking a lot of questions in order to find out the truth about society. According to Jesus, living the good life is following God and loving him with all your heart. Even though Socrates and Jesus are put to death because they are countercultural heroes, they each have different; ways they lived their life, attitudes towards death and ideas about the afterlife.

Above all Socrates greatest interest is the state of ones soul. While Socrates is accused and put to death for being an atheist it is clear that Socrates does believe in the gods and in fact believes them to be all powerful. Socrates seems aware that he is destined to be put to death from the start of the dialogues as his main focus is always on right and wrong, pious and impious. After spending what seems like an eternity trying to define pious and impious Socrates and Euthyphro arrive at a dead end, Socrates shows his determination by saying “so we must investigate again from the beginning what piety is, as I shall not willingly give up before I learn this” ( Euthyphro 15d). It 's clear that Socrates

To introduce, Socrates was placed on trial and charged with the crime of impiety. Impiety is the lack of reverence for the gods and other sacred things. As well another major claim was that Socrates was corrupting the children of Athens. He also was believed to be an atheist, even though Socrates claimed to have a strong belief in the gods; he even believed “The god has commanded me to examine men, in oracles and in dreams and in

Just like other mediators, Socrates had a connection to God, which made him question the religion and wisdom of the Athenian people. As a young boy he felt a presence, a spiritual feeling.

In the reading “Concepts of scripture in Rabbinic Judaism” by Steven Fraade it talk about Moses, Rabbis, laws and about the written and oral Torah. It mentioned in the article that the former has record of revealed laws, sacred history of Israel, divinely inspired prophets and teachers of wisdom. The books of the oral Torah have two categories: Midrash (literally, seeking of meaning) and Mishnah (list of rabbinic laws). The Jerusalem temple was demolished by the Romans in 70 CE. The Torah was revealed by God to Moses at Mount Sinai. Moses had stated that “Lord had gave him two tablets of stones”, which was written by God. The key aspect that was presented in the article was about the issue of the written and oral Torah. An example that discovered

Presocratic philosophers in their search for the truth caught glimpses of Divinity and the truth of eternal life. This search culminated in Socrates, who through his lifelong search for truth gained an image of the soul and eternal life similar to the catholic belief of eternal life. In the Phaedrus, Socrates says that all divine souls “go to feast at the banquet”(Phaedrus 247b), they climb up and view a place beyond heaven where there is a supreme divine being. “What is in this place is without color and without shape and without solidity, a being that really is what it is, the subject of all true knowledge, visible only to intelligence” (Phaedrus 247c). In his letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul speaks about things on earth being shadows of the

If he were still alive today, most people would just think Socrates to be a crazy old man, and they would proceed to ignore him. Alas, in times of Ancient Greece, things were not so black and white. At this point, Socrates was being accused of a few things, one of which was being described as “…a student of all things in the sky and below the earth…” An odd accusation to hear about today, but completely plausible in this day and age. By learning things other than the mythology that people were taught in Ancient Greece, such as science and logic, a person would be stating his or her denouncement belief in the gods. Practicing any other religion was most surely a death sentence in and of itself, so the idea of Socrates learning things against the gods was more than likely going to be perceived as treason against the gods themselves. Socrates’ counter to this is a weak one, and merely results in just a play on words. Socrates manages to convince Meletus to state that Socrates does indeed believe in spirits, whom are the “bastard children of the gods,” and, in his opinion, by Meletus stating that he believes in spirits, he is contradicting the

Socrates presents an idea that the gods exist but do not have any influence in the lives of humans, Aristophanes claims that Socrates is an outright atheist. Socrates's lack of faith in the gods could have caused the gods to become unfavorable towards the Athenians, thus ultimately making the Athenians lose the war against

One of the arguments that Socrates first shows throughout the Apology is that he is being guided by the work of his Gods. He says that he is not scared to be hated because he knows that many people in Athens only dislike

Socrates’s thinking comes down to a central reasoning based on the moral character of the god. Many gods hold different values, opinions, morals, much like todays people were are all different. We have our morals and values based on belief systems which are based of the morals of a god which we relate to in some way.

The church of today needs to make sure that it’s speaking the language of the New Testament. Now, I’m not stating that every member of the church should speak Greek to whatever environment you may be in, but rather to proclaim the gospel with the understanding of the message in the original language. In our world today, we have a clash of two languages; one being the secular and the other being the Biblical. In our preaching, we feel we should succumb to modern language and in the end we fail because we have made the language and its message ‘modern’. The Christian preacher and teacher stand in the middle of the clash. Resolving the clash of the languages is the whole art of preaching and teaching the Word of God.

The Septuagint affected the way various Christian groups viewed the biblical canon today. The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible and includes additional written books (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). Various Christian groups view these books differently. The Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians accept these books as sacred (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). Some Christians view these books as a second canonical collection. Other Christians do not believe these books to be sacred.