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The Impact of Christianity Response
During the Hellenistic age and the peak of the Roman empire, divisions of Greek philosophy were being founded. Neo-Platonism was one of these divisions or schools of philosophy. An Alexandrian philosopher by the name of Plotinus founded this school in Rome and based it's teachings on Platos' metaphysics. Plotinus believed, as Plato did, that two worlds existed, one beyond our scope of understanding and one in which we perceive daily. Plotinus believed that the indescribable, indefinable world was God. Unlike the Christian concept of God, Plotinus' version only allowed for the realization of god through a merging of the soul and god, which he called the "vision".
Christianity began as a Jewish sect and eventually formed into a completely different religion. For the first couple of centuries Christians were persecuted for their beliefs due to the unpopularity of Christianity. It wasn't until the Romans recognized religious tolerance......
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