4. About God 38

4.1. Possibilities of Human Cognition .....................................38

4.2. The Orthodox Doctrine of God as Love and the Heterodox and Heterodox Ideas of God.......................................................................................38

4.3. God is Love.............................................................................39

4.4. The meaning of the concept of "God's punishment"....................................................... 41

4.5. The Orthodox teaching about God the Trinity and pagan triads (family, Hindu Trimurti, Hellenic Hecate, Neoplatonic ideas, etc)... 43

4.6. Logos-Christ and Pre-Christian Ideas about the Logos (in Ancient Greek Philosophy, the Stoics and Philo of Alexandria)..........................45

4.7. On the Incarnation........................................................................... 48

4.8. Salvation in Paganism and Christianity..............................................52

4.9. The Essence of the Savior's Sacrifice......................................................... 64

5. Church...................................................................................... 68

5.1. Theocentric and anthropocentric understanding of the Church.................. 68

5.2. Christian Sacraments...................................................................... 68

6. Holy Scripture. His inspiration....................................... 76

7. Holy Tradition and Traditions......................................................76

8. The Church and Other Religions...............................................................78

9. Spirituality and pseudo-spirituality........................................................ 80

10. The Truth of Christianity............................................................ 81

A Brief Historical Review of Attempts at a Mythological Explanation of Christianity