no that's a and they do that inadvertently because they believe in absolute divine simplicity

and no as you just saw from st basil contrasted to platinus at the beginning of this talk

the early christian church was not synthesizing greek philosophy with No, they were not.

This is where we have to depart.

Now, the medieval scholastic Roman Catholics

sought a synthesis between Greek

philosophy and Revelation.

That's why we're not

Roman Catholics. No.

That's why we don't believe in classical foundationalism, like the Thomists and the Catholics do.

There is no neutrality.

There's no middle ground.

There's no realm where Jesus and autonomous man and Satan have agreed to have a peace treaty.

I mean, this is the same argument, you know, that goes on between why there's not a,

a, why dogma doesn't, or, or the church should have no relationships to the state.

These are Protestant assumptions.

There's no Orthodox social theory.

Why?

Well, because that's a neutral realm.

No, it's not.

When you read the Ten Commandments, God says,

you're not supposed to worship foreign gods.

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