Ante-Nicene Fathers (Volume 2) - V - Theophilus to Autolycus concluded

Required reading
Ante-Nicene Fathers (Volume 2) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude 'Theophilus to Autolycus' by reading Book III.
 
My summary
Today Theophilus continues his apology.

Firstly Theophilus attacks the writings of the Greeks by pointing out their:
(i) contradictions;
(ii) false accusations of Christianity;
(iii) support of cannibalism and sexual immorality;
(iv) contrary opinions;
(v) attributing wickedness to gods.

Then Theophilus demonstrates the truth in the writings of Christianity by pointing out their:
(i) support for moral living, including kindness to strangers, chastity and love to enemies;
(ii) antiquity and accuracy.

What grabbed me
I enjoyed hearing of the accounts of the flood from other ancient writers: 'For Plato, as we said above, when he had demonstrated that a deluge had happened, said that it extended not over the whole earth, but only over the plains, and that those who fled to the highest hills saved themselves. But others say that there existed Deucalion and Pyrrha, and that they were preserved in a chest; and that Deucalion, after he came out of the chest, flung stones behind him, and that men were produced from the stones; from which circumstance they say that men in the mass are named “people.” Others, again, say that Clymenus existed in a second flood. From what has already been said, it is evident that they who wrote such things and philosophized to so little purpose are miserable, and very profane and senseless persons. But Moses, our prophet and the servant of God, in giving an account of the genesis of the world, related in what manner the flood came upon the earth, telling us, besides, how the details of the flood came about, and relating no fable of Pyrrha nor of Deucalion or Clymenus; nor, forsooth, that only the plains were submerged, and that those only who escaped to the mountains were saved. '

The fact that sources hostile to Christianity give some details of a massive flood helps confirm our trust in the Bible's account.

Next week's reading
Commence the 'Writings of Athenagoras' by reading 'A plea for the Christians'.

Now it's your turn
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