For Ancient philosophy could not comprehend the creation of the world by God. Gods supreme perfection prevented his entering into direct relation with the world; nature is too weak to sustain the immediate action of the divinity. God could not create or act upon his creature except through an intermediary
This intermediary is the Word or Logos, necessarily unequal to the supreme God. (Mourret-Thompson, History of the Catholic Church vol. 2 p.13). From this Greek idea, or philosophy, we get the idea that God is intangible, unthinkable, unchanging and other similar ideas come from. It was this kind of assimilation of foreign ideas that Paul warns of in Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Another example is the idea that matter is evil therefore God may have no part in it. At first Christianity believed that God is, or at least, resembled a man. Origen Writes The Jews indeed, but also some of our people supposed that God should be understood as a man, that is, adorned with human members and human appearance. (Origen, Homilies on Genesis 3:1, translated by Ronald E. Heine (Washington DC.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1982), 89.). However the philosophers had a different, conflicting, idea. The previous quote by Origen continues with But the philosophers despise these stories as fabulous and formed in the likeness of poetic fictions. (See previous source.). It was no the early Christians who believed God to not have, or resemble, a human body but the philosophers who believed so. For Plato, the Supreme Being is absolute goodness, and since matter, for him, is evil and a hindrance to the perfect expression of the idea God is immaterial (Barker, James L. The Divine Church vol. 2, p.25.).
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