I'm new to the group but not known. I have discernment and am not afraid to admit when i'm wrong, just gotta help me hear you out ?!?!? My Jealouse God is nice...
Hey All Welcome to all the new members, including the ones who have not actually posted an introduction yet. TwOwned, let me try to respond to your querry, but...
Hi, all. I recently read _Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity_ by Elaine Pagels and Karen King. Has anyone else read this?...
According to Marvin Meyer (The Gnostic Discoveries, p. 117), the Valentinians divide humankind into three groups: "the people of the spirit" (pneumatikoi),...
... and "the ... move ... then ... the ... person ... soul? Hello, Mark. For starters, regarding Valentinians specifically, the following article might help...
... how do you deal with the alternate gnostic approach that the crucifixion was a sham and also that jesus was satan and that john the baptist was the true...
Hey Dwain ... crucifixion was a sham<<<< In what way? There is the idea in some texts that it was not the Christ that died. In Gnostic texts this is sometimes...
... exactly who i was speaking of. who did the more sensitive evaluation and when did it occur? are there any links to this information you can share? dwain ...
... Ah, and here is more about angels: http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/Joined_Angel.htm <http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/Joined_Angel.htm> ...
Hey Dwain You ask... ... and when did it occur? are there any links to this information you can share?<<< Hmmm, now that you mention it I don't really even...
... messiah?<<< I think you are refering to Aleister Crowley's Vision and the Voice. Vision and voice p134 --and Satan is worshipped by men under the name of...
dwain, I deal with this alternate interpretation as I deal with all the alternates: I pick the one that speaks to me. Hearing that which speaks to one is part...
... a ... pastor ... into ... Concerning this pastor and his actions: as the hospital staff chaplain I would ask him to leave and not come back and call...
... not really, the manicheans think along this line. see the gnostic bible by barnstone and meyer. dwain -- Dwain Alford web: http://www.studiokdd.com "The...
... it's not that i think it is correct, it is one of the alternates, as you call it, that adds perspective to any understanding. questions are good in that...
... wanted ... <http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/larocca-pitts.html> . Mark, thank you for the article. It was very informative. I can see ...
dwain, I would agree it is valuable to see something from a multitude of perspectives--and often the more radically opposite the perspective, the more it may...
... thanks. i rather like it too. a little off topic, but have you or any of the group read holy blood, holy grail? the authors talk of the gnostics and...
In following up with some more reading related to my previous post on Valentinian Classification, I read Pagels' __Beyond Belief_. She spoke of the "second...
... Mark, sure, there were obviously theological differences, one of these being apolutrosis. Redemption or ransom for many sects involved an inner process of...
Paul Tillich (1868-1965), a liberal Christian theologian, felt that the concept of a "Personal God" as held by many main-line Christians was a concept that...
Sounds like Tillich studied the Kaballah at some point. Where did you get your info? Is there a link? blessings and peas DarkChylde ... the ... was a ... ...
DarkChylde, I do not know if Tillich ever studied Kaballah. The information below came out Karen Armstrong's, The History of God, pp. 382-383. Mark ... that ...
It appears that others have also made this connection between Tillich and his idea of "a God beyond God" with the Gnostic understanding of God. "Some of the...
Marcion of Sinope. He is perhaps the greatest heretic of all times. His following was so large it threatened the early Catholic Church. He is also the reason...
This reminded me of something I saw quoted in someone's signature (can't remember where) but it said, I say there are many gods, but one God of all these gods,...
Several years back I started studying the Bible and I was confronted by a diety that I could not understand as supremely good judging by his actions in the old...
Well, the Gospel of Truth is a good text that deals with a less polarized view of the mixing of spirit in matter, as well as the writings of Ptolomy, of whom I...
