Not at all. If anything, the Neoplatonists would be most digestible by magicians, or cults with a more abstract ethos than Christians do. Christianity's incarnation doctrine makes it fundamentally incompatible with Neoplatonic anthropology.
A Few Christian authors did take influence from them because there were multiple religions in the Roman and Byzantine Empires sharing the same academies, so everyone was intermixing, but even those Christians did so with great hostility to the conclusions of their competition.
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