Jul 28, 2026 · 20 min · 13 segments
What if I were to tell you that history can show the apostasy plain as day. What if history shows that Christians (now devoid of apostolic guidance) slowly adopted a concept of God that came not from…
The Greek intellectuals at that time were increasingly dissatisfied with the pagan religion of Hera, Zeus, and they felt like it was insufficient to answer the big questions.
You have to remember, mankind has always wrestled with the big questions, like if God exists.
Every human has to look around and wonder... why is all of this here? And the Greeks were asking that very question.
They were asking, why does all of this exist at all? And philosophers like Aristotle began to try and answer that.
Does this go on forever with everything being caused by something else? Or is there something that is the source of all things? Something that is ultimately fundamental? And that's not a bad question.
If something's existence depends on something more fundamental, there are only two possibilities.
Either there is an infinite chain backwards, or there is something that is not dependent on anything else.
And Aristotle began deducing what that ultimate explanation must be like, given that it can't be dependent in any way on anything else.
And he concludes that this ultimate thing must be uncaused, unchanging, unaffected, completely self-sufficient.
Because if something changes in any way, and if something caused the change, then the thing that caused the change is more fundamental than the thing that was changed.
The Greek intellectuals at that time were increasingly dissatisfied with the pagan religion of Hera, Zeus, and they felt like it was insufficient to answer the big questions.
You have to remember, mankind has always wrestled with the big questions, like if God exists.
Every human has to look around and wonder... why is all of this here? And the Greeks were asking that very question.
They were asking, why does all of this exist at all? And philosophers like Aristotle began to try and answer that.
Does this go on forever with everything being caused by something else? Or is there something that is the source of all things? Something that is ultimately fundamental? And that's not a bad question.
If something's existence depends on something more fundamental, there are only two possibilities.
Either there is an infinite chain backwards, or there is something that is not dependent on anything else.
And Aristotle began deducing what that ultimate explanation must be like, given that it can't be dependent in any way on anything else.
And he concludes that this ultimate thing must be uncaused, unchanging, unaffected, completely self-sufficient.
Because if something changes in any way, and if something caused the change, then the thing that caused the change is more fundamental than the thing that was changed.
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