Edwina, Jon AS, List,
Those two comments are completely compatible.
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ET: Prayer is, in my view, a psychological form of behaviour - among
ALL human populations.
JAS: Peirce...:states plainly that prayer is a universal human instinct
by which the soul expresses consciousness of its relation to God.
But the word 'plainly' is not appropriate. That sentence is a paraphrase
of a much more nuanced comment, which he would admit is fallible. Please
note that Peirce's favorite gospel is the one by John the Evangelist: In
the beginning (en arche) was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and God
was the Logos. That is the only definition of God in the New Testament.
And it is consistent with what Heraclitus wrote.
In fact, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria wrote many volumes (in Greek) to show
that the Greek philosophers were influenced by the Hebrew prophets. I
don't believe that it's an accident that all of them lived along the Silk
Road that carried soldiers, merchants, and gurus\ to and from China, India,
Persia, Babylon, Greece, Israel, and Egypt.
Also note that Alexandria was in Egypt, and Philo used the Septuagint
(Greek translation of the Hebrew). It's very likely that John was
influenced by Philo as well as the Greek philosophers..
John
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