“power” and “wisdom” that he represented were activities that derived from God, he had in some way expressed “what was there from the beginning.” These ideas were comprehensible in a strictly Jewish context, though later Christians with Greek background would interpret them differently. In the Acts of the Apostles, written as late as 100 CE, we can see that the first Christians still had an entirely Jewish conception of God.

Again, Martin Jaffee writes:

The canonical book of Proverbs portrays wisdom as being God’s companion from the beginning of time. The image was refracted throughout the worlds of ancient Judaism. It informed many of Philo’s descriptions of Torah as a divine logos (word, principle) through which Being conceived the world into existence. All that exists is as it should be because the world’s structure is undergirded by divine thought, Torah.

By the second century the leadership of Christianity had shifted from a Jewish majority (well educated in the Torah), to a Greek majority (well educated in Greek culture, philosophy and mythology).

As the Jewish sect began to be more dominated by a Greek membership, however, the Greek polytheistic perspective of God also became a more accepted view.

The Encyclopedia Britannica says:

The Trinitarians and the Unitarians continued to confront each other, the latter at the beginning of the third century still forming the large majority.

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