The system covers the whole surface of the planet, dark areas and light areas alike, in a way that renders
impossible the supposition that any natural force produced the canals.
The characteristic Greek conception of humanity and divinity fused and all but identified, which soon became the normative doctrine of the church, would have been
impossible for Paul, and his words give no support to the
supposition that he held it, For him a great gulf lies between both the pre-existent and the post-resurrection glory on the one hand and the earthly life on the other.