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Pagan critics argued that the Christian conception of God was contradictory because it depicted God as:
Transcendent yet ignorant of human events
Impersonal yet incarnate
Just yet forgiving
Omnipotent yet overly involved in trivial affairs
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"Impersonal yet incarnate."
Pagan critics (e.g., Celsus, some Neoplatonists) objected that the Christian God was described in philosophical terms as transcendent, immutable, and impassible — an impersonal, unchanging divinity — yet Christians also taught that this same God became flesh, suffered, and acted in history in the person of Jesus. Critics used that apparent tension to argue the doctrine was incoherent.
Pagan critics (e.g., Celsus, some Neoplatonists) objected that the Christian God was described in philosophical terms as transcendent, immutable, and impassible — an impersonal, unchanging divinity — yet Christians also taught that this same God became flesh, suffered, and acted in history in the person of Jesus. Critics used that apparent tension to argue the doctrine was incoherent.
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