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Zachary Karabell, in an aside in his work 'People of the Book', said that the arguments about the nature of Christ came about due to the absorption of Pagan Philosophy in the Christian Faith.

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I do know this was true with the Arians. If you are an educated Roman with lessons in greek philosophy under your belt, then all this shit about varying levels of divinity and humanity can be made sense of, but if you are a Germanic coming from a religion where the Gods were Gods and the heroes were heroes, it made more sense for their to be complete separation. And they kept that separation going for a long time because it allowed Germanic culture to remain separate when they occupied Roman territories.