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Dwoods44 Just as I expected. Vacuous, empty and devoid of truth or reason.
I suggest next time acquainting yourself with the early Christians who took the gnostic heretics to task, such as Epiphanius, Irenaeus of Lyons, Justin Martyr, Tertullian and Hippolytus. Then it might be clearer why writings such as the "Gospel of Thomas" never found circulation alongside the memoirs of the apostles.
Adieuso breaths Christ as no other document does. Gnostics were Christians too, do not forget, until the "Church" reformed itself deciding what is and what is not "Christian" and what is or is not heretical. My view is if you do not recognize the Christ in the Gospel of Thomas you have not "eyes to see" nor "ears to hear".
'Just as I expected. Vacuous, empty and devoid of truth or reason.The only void of presentation of one's understanding of truth or reason that I see here is what you there wrote.
The leaders of the Crusade made no attempt to stop or even limit the massacres. Quite the contrary, as the knights rushed to arm and mount, eager not to miss the action, a group of them reportedly asked Arnaud Amalric how they were to distinguish the many Catholics in the town from the heretics they had come to kill. The abbot is notorious for replying in Latin: ‘Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.’ Which means: ‘Kill them all; God will look after his own.’which is a situation, oft repeated through the history of the church, that make's one wonder just how "spiritual" the endeavor is on the whole.
innerstand: did you mean understand? ; your own load to bare: maybe "to bear?"etc.Which you followed up with this:
Shalmaneser which is a situation, oft repeated through the history of the church, thatEver heard that one about people who live in glass houses?make'smakes one wonder just how "spiritual" the endeavor is on the whole.
Everything is a parable,an allegoryTotally on point, and I can think of two interpretations of that. What is it an allegory of, and my real question might be what really is an allegory? For the Jews, it is for something specific: a literal interpretation that would have them cut off the foreskins of conquered peoples (at least in the bible). For Christians later engaged in transvaluation, or for Jordan Peterson say, it is more universal, it may be about faith or an inner pact/relationship with God or "the ultimate sacrifice."
The deity doesn't sound human to me at all.
H: Supra: Warning: vulgarity [Link]You mean aside from that SOB, L?
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