What questions raised by ancient Greek philosophy were answered by Christianity?
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The eternity of the world is a major tenant of almost all the ancient Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. However, it is an article of the Faith (de fide) that the world had a beginning in time:
John 17:5: “And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had before the world was with thee.”
We also know that philosophical arguments cannot prove or disprove the eternity of the world (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's S. th. I 46, 1 and De aeternitate mundi), thus the revelation of this truth by God was morally necessary.
Eph. 1:4: “He chose us in Him (Christ) even before the foundation of the world.”
Ps. 101:26: “In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundest the earth.”
Cf. Gn. 1:1; Pro. 8:22 et seq.; Ps. 89:2; John 17:24.Creatio ex nihilo ("creation out of nothing") is another concept that Greek philosophers, including Aristotle, never arrived at. Creatio ex nihilo is proved in:
Gn. 1:1: “In the beginning God created Heaven and earth.”
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I won't give you a list of these questions for I don't know them but I think it is very important to know that Greeks, in their search for truth, somehow realized there should be a God to worship (distinct from the gods they had created in their mythology) so at the time when the apostles came, they had been worshipping a so-called 'Agnostos Theos' (The Unknown/Anonymous God). And apparently, at least, the Christian truth that was preached by Paul was exactly what they had been waiting for!
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