Do you think early Christian monotheism accepted pantheism to base the relation of spirit to nature?

Answer 1

When looking at early Christianity, it might be important to understand social contexts as much as it is to understand theological contexts.

In most areas, there was little to no unified understanding of what Christianity was, new faith, jewish sect, heresy depending on who you talked to and when. Likewise most religious communities were house based groups so there was a very wide range of beliefs that fell under a Christian umbrella. Therefore, different allowances would have to be made in different areas to better merge the new faith with whatever faith was dominant in the area. Later on there slowly became some unifying priniciples but the regional aspect of early Christianity was still very important. Pantheism for example would have been more accepted in certain areas over others just because of longer standing religious traditions that Christian evangelists would have had to overcome. In order to spread the Good News there would most likely be some allowances made by the heads of the house churches in order to justify questions that couldnt be answered through correspondence with a traveling missionary, in much the same fashion that believers of all faiths have tried to do in nearly every religion - especially before a written holy text.

Answer 2

Early Christian monotheism compromised itself completely with its pantheon of saints. Judaism had already destroyed the one-god requirement with the prediction of a son to avenge the Roman conquest of Israel, and the creation of a spirit god alluded to in many works in the Old Testament. So Judaism already had screwed up the one-god issue with both a son and holy spirit, and Christianity simply adopted this trio. By it's definition as based on Christ, Christianity had already lost any claim to monotheism anyway.

These mini-deities have totally destroyed the concept of one god, even as a son and holy spirit expanded upon the concept too.

Almost all cultures embrace a spiritual deity of some type. Maybe this is the only piece of Christianity that can be salvaged.

Answer 3

There is not one shred of evidence that the early Christians accepted pantheism in any way, shape or form. There is truckloads of evidence, based on the numerous writings of what is called the Early Church Fathers, that the early Christians were Catholic in belief and practice. With more information available, the conspiracy of censorship on these writings can no longer be contained, and that is one reason why so many ministers and bible scholars are converting to the Catholic Church. They are reading for themselves what the early church believed, and what they believed pre-dates the bible and many pre-bible traditions are rejected by evangelicals and born-agains.

The evidence is there for anyone who wants to see it.

Answer 4

NO! that's just pure poppycock baloney!

Christianity doesn't need to borrow anything from anyone because it is full and complete in itself, just as God is.