Christians had been wrestling with the numerous weaknesses and problems in the Genesis story ever since the beginnings of Christianity. And these flaws and improbabilities in Genesis were ridiculed by prominent pagan polemicists like Celsus, Porphyry and others. So naturally many Christian thinkers and theologians for their part defended the Genesis story. Cosmas Indicopleustes, one of the most well travelled…
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The Tree of Thor
One of the most famous pagan holy sites in what is now Germany during the early Medieval age was a sacred grove in the region of Hesse in which stood a very large and majestic oak tree. A contemporary account calls it ‘a certain oak of extraordinary size called in the old tongue of the pagans the Oak of Jupiter.’…