>>41373037
>this is an abrahamic innovation
hardly. plato's forms were the idea of earthly perfection necessitated upon divine perfection which would naturally include all-power, all-presence, and all-knowledge. all three wayyyy predated plato. perfection here can only extend to the point of perfection above. the forms were from his early middle period, he was still under the impression that zeus (translated as 'god') was a perfect being and created the earth. later on of course he came to accept that our (earthly) creator is a demiurge, an imperfect being, aspiring towards the perfect^perfection of which would later be called by Plotinus the MONAD, creator of the soul. these concepts were heavily misunderstood by pretty much everyone, christians also with the trinity.
essentially you have the new god, which creates. this god aspires to its perfect self, through creations it seeks to perfect itself. zeus would be an intermediary form, he is liked to jupiter seizing the throne of saturn/kronos. kronos was a creator of the 'Evil' route, consuming its creations to siphon its power towards its perfection, whereas zeus shifted towards the 'Good', which cooperated with other creations. the monad would be its most perfect form, a being capable of creating the preconditions necessary to bring about its own creation.
but at the time of the Forms his gripes were with the misappropriation of temples utilizing myths that antagonized the gods by claiming they were anything other than perfect, and they embodied some of the worst qualities of men. many of these myths lost the plot. the misappropriation of the temples, the oracles, the magi for political purposes dates back to herodotus atleast, and it was a well established scam by the time of the bible's writing. there is as far as i know, nothing innovative about abrahamism theologically speaking. the innovations were entirely in the misanthropy and the general attitudes of both yahweh and jews, and their jewish behaviors.
