Joesaliba asked:

How did the main events of Hellenistic thought that preceded and prepared the advent of Christ, mark
the new testament?

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Who could affirm that the events of the Hellenistic thought prepared the advent of Christ? This is only
a hypothesis which implies the refusal of the existence of the historical Jesus. Well, nowadays nearly
all historians accept that Jesus existed.

Some Hellenistic elements can be found in the New Testament, particularly in the Johannine writings.
The Logos (which in ancient and modern Greek means "word" as well as "reason") is described as
God from eternity who became incarnate in Jesus Christ. For trinitarian Christians (all Roman
Catholics, all Eastern Orthodox and many Anglicans and Protestants) He is one of the hypostases of
the Holy Trinity.

It seems that St John has been partly influenced by the same sources as Philo of Alexandria (c 20
B.C — c A.D 50), the great Hellenistic Jewish thinker. Yet it is to be noted that St John's identification
of the Logos with the Messiah was quite new.

Jean Nakos