Stoic Vs Gospel

Knowledge can be attained through reason, morals of right verses wrong, and controls of divine powers: these traits, for which Stoic philosophies and Christians see virtuous spirits traveling the earth searching for answers of certainty through truth from fallacy. In Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic” and “The Gospel to Mark and The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians allows for contextualization and interpretation: further more, today we can analyze their beliefs by comparing and contrasting the two texts over the natural order of nature and equality amongst men. They both have similarities and dissimilarities of inspired passions from inferior emotions; the same goes for spiritual freedoms in the external world. For centuries some Christian
Before the rise of Christianity, Stoicism advocated brotherhood of humanity and the natural equality amongst all human beings. In the Bible’s “The Gospel to Mark”, Jesus is represented as a man of good integrity, and truly lived a life by loving thy neighbor. In Mark, a story of a blind man calling out for “Jesus Son of David have mercy on me” and Jesus asked “What do you want Me to do for you”, the blind man said “Rabboni, I want to regain my sight.” (Mark 10:51). Jesus said to the blind man “Go your faith has made you well” and immediately the blind man regained his sight (Mark 10:52). Stoic pagan philosopher would respect the Christian faith and the way Mark wrote about Jesus brotherly love for other human beings. In the Gospels, Jesus was Mark’s way of representation of the Stoic practice of moral brotherhood between human beings, and primarily the citizens’ responsibility for his/her own
Paul had a passion to correct the flawed views of the Corinthian church. Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, urging uniformity of the Christian faith. In the Corinth communities, Stoic pagan philosophies were often put into practice, but after Paul explored the conflicts within the church he saw divisions in the Christian doctrine. Paul wrote, "that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you," (Paul, 1:10), this is defiantly a similarity of the Stoic belief that all men are equal. In Paul’s letters he discusses the immorality in Corinthians’ by a divisions of faith creating hostility among brothers causing immoral brotherhood, and they resolved personal disputes wrongfully. Stoics find an essential virtue of righteousness in life is his respect for the brother next to him, a person most allow forgiveness for immorality and have no pre-existing judgments among