I do not know enough about Christianity to comment intelligently on that aspect of your post, but some ideas about Kronos and Zeus and Greek in general that might be relevant:
If you view Creation as YHVH, the Y and V being masculine/expansive/centrifugal and the H's being feminine/receptive/centripetal, Kronos is the first H and Zeus is the V. Kronos brings things into himself (hence, he kept his powers by consuming his children). Zeus is expansive and sends things out of himself; he distributed his powers, sometimes by fathering more Gods, sometimes by fathering demi-Gods with worthy human women. (Why did he rape them? Well, Fortune in Cosmic Doctrine says that creation requires resistance...)
As far as Christianity being influenced by Greek religion...
In the Five Stages of Greek Religion, the author posits that Hera was incorporated into the Greek pantheon when two cultures blended. Zeus (and his first wife Dione) was from one culture; Hera (and her consort Herakles) were from another (Phoenician). And the myths of Herakles were probably not originally Phoenician; they were probably Babylonian. So the Greeks were definitely influenced by the Babylonians, by way of Phoenicia.
And I've just finished reading the Greek Qabalah by Kiernan Berry. He goes through the history of Cabala from a numerology perspective, specifically isopsephy, which is the precursor to Hebrew gematria.
So it isn't hard to see how Christianity could be influenced by Greek religion, either Platonic or neoPlatonic, or even prePlatonic. I haven't listened to the interview you linked to, so I'm not saying Greek specifically influenced the Hagia Sophia, just saying that it seems very logical that Babylonians influenced the Phoenicians influenced the Greeks (and the Egyptians influenced the Greeks, too) which influenced the Jews which influenced the Christians.
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Date: 2023-02-25 01:43 pm (UTC)If you view Creation as YHVH, the Y and V being masculine/expansive/centrifugal and the H's being feminine/receptive/centripetal, Kronos is the first H and Zeus is the V. Kronos brings things into himself (hence, he kept his powers by consuming his children). Zeus is expansive and sends things out of himself; he distributed his powers, sometimes by fathering more Gods, sometimes by fathering demi-Gods with worthy human women. (Why did he rape them? Well, Fortune in Cosmic Doctrine says that creation requires resistance...)
As far as Christianity being influenced by Greek religion...
In the Five Stages of Greek Religion, the author posits that Hera was incorporated into the Greek pantheon when two cultures blended. Zeus (and his first wife Dione) was from one culture; Hera (and her consort Herakles) were from another (Phoenician). And the myths of Herakles were probably not originally Phoenician; they were probably Babylonian. So the Greeks were definitely influenced by the Babylonians, by way of Phoenicia.
And I've just finished reading the Greek Qabalah by Kiernan Berry. He goes through the history of Cabala from a numerology perspective, specifically isopsephy, which is the precursor to Hebrew gematria.
So it isn't hard to see how Christianity could be influenced by Greek religion, either Platonic or neoPlatonic, or even prePlatonic. I haven't listened to the interview you linked to, so I'm not saying Greek specifically influenced the Hagia Sophia, just saying that it seems very logical that Babylonians influenced the Phoenicians influenced the Greeks (and the Egyptians influenced the Greeks, too) which influenced the Jews which influenced the Christians.