schillingklaus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:06 am
No, there is no connection as the Christian cross derives from Platonic idealist philosophy, not from some Jewish voodoo ritual.
THe Platonic idealist philosophy insists on the fate of the Righteous one, but the Righteousness is a more a Judaizing attribute than a Gnostic one.
So Platon's Just would have been used more by Judaizers than by anti-demiurgists.
What there is of anti-demiurgism in the use of Platon's Just, is the idea that the Platonic demiurge created the world by using a cosmic cross. The anti-demiurgists would have interpreted: the evil demiurge created the world by crucifying the Son of Father.
Even so, what is not explained is the use of Deuteronomy's cursing of the crucified one. If the crucified is cursed by god, then the crucifixion is 100% expected for the being who had to carry the sins of the entire community: the Lamb.
Even more so if the blood of the Lamb,
signed on the door, allowed to save the israelites in Egypt from the destructive work of the Angel of Lord, identified already in the OT implicitly with Joshua/Jesus.