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Appreciating the Salvation of Our GodThe Watchtower—1973 | August 1
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Yes, even proud Aristotle understood the idea of “ransom.” But had he lived four centuries later, his philosophies—embracing triune gods, evolution and the soul’s immortality—would no doubt have prevented him from appreciating the significance of Jesus’ ransom.b
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Appreciating the Salvation of Our GodThe Watchtower—1973 | August 1
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b “In the Fourth Century B.C. Aristotle wrote: ‘All things are three, and thrice is all: and let us use this number in the worship of the gods; for, as the Pythagoreans say, everything and all things are bound by threes, for the end, the middle, and the beginning have this number in everything, and these compose the number of the Trinity.’”—Arthur Weigall, in his book The Paganism in Our Christianity, p. 198.
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