Stoicism and christianity
I've stumbled uppon this video, and it made a lot of sense to me, so I thought I'd share and maybe we could start a debate. Tldr. All wisdom comes from God. And stoicism has a lot of wisdom, it's just packaged in a western way. Yes some of the content of it is not wisdom from God and we must be able to take that apppart. But there are a lot of similarites to Proverbs and Psalms, so we could see stoic literature complimentary to our faith journey. Just don't take it as Gospel, but that is a skill in itself. What do you guys think? Is taking wisdom from stoicism and other schools of thought fine, until we keep the truth of Jesus Christ at our core? Or do you think that the bible is a sufficient and safer option? ( I'd say atleast for beginners, it is ). This would also tie into meditation for me. I don't see it as harmful, prayer is a lot more powerful, that is for sure, but supplementing with meditation can't hurt, since there are a lot of studies which also show the positive benefits. But again, this probably also ties into individuality and finding what works for ourselves best, as Alex talked to me once.