Well there is no path through any book to nature. Books are new nature is old. Nature leads to the books to regardless especially and imcluding science.Give yourself more credit.
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Well there is no path through any book to nature. Books are new nature is old. Nature leads to the books to regardless especially and imcluding science.Give yourself more credit.
So thinks you.No it was written by various parties who did not agree with each other
Scripture isn't going to get up and interpret itself. People do the interpreting mostly they do it with an uncritical eye that is color with their own prejudices rather than looking at the Bible through the critical methods.It works by allowing the Scripture to interpret itself. Here a little, there a little.
So says most Biblical scholarsSo thinks you.
Not really, it was mostly written by the same mystery school, by different people and times but bares single purpose.No it was written by various parties who did not agree with each other
Bible is misused, it is being read by the parties it was not written for.
Is that supposed to be intelligent?i bet forest over books. All of them regardless including science. This is not disneyland ride.
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Not really, it was mostly written by the same mystery school, by different people and times but bares single purpose.
Same? I think the Ebionites differed from the Johannite Christians who differed vastly from the Thomasian Christians. That is the whole point. They weren't the same and influenced the NTNot really, it was mostly written by the same mystery school, by different people and times but bares single purpose.
I see it mostly like she described, I re-read Paul her way, it makes a lot of sense, and the Gospels read in similar way make sense. Granted we do not know all about Valentinian ways.I don't agree with her thesis that Paul was a Gnostic. I do believe that some Gnostic teachings got slipped in by a wily editor with Gnostic sympathies.
Teaching Gnostic treatise with keys in 1Cor2 and Heb, 5,6,9to 11.No. It obviously doesn't have a single purpose.. It changed as the political situation changed.
By reading it her way, you cheated yourself out of applying critical theory to the Bible and seeing what it says itself not through the eyes of another.I see it mostly like she described, I re-read Paul her way, it makes a lot of sense, and the Gospels read in similar way make sense. Granted we do not know all about Valentinian ways.
Who needs the book its all around me right now!? I am in a forest actually. This is where books are grown. Right now i am looking at living books we call them trees. You have a dead tree book. i have the living tree! Who needs a book?It works by allowing the Scripture to interpret itself. Here a little, there a little.
Have you ever wondered why Jesus spoke in parables that not even his own disciples could not understand?No.. Don't blame the reader. I think there is more than enough evidence that the OT stories were borrowed from other cultures and that the texts have been redacted and amended numerous times.
Archaeology originally set out to prove the Bible stories and that has failed miserably.
okay thanks.Who needs the book its all around me right now!? I am in a forest actually. This is where books are grown. Right now i am looking at living books we call them trees. You have a dead tree book. i have the living tree! Who needs a book?
It ended up in Paul's way.Same? I think the Ebionites differed from the Johannite Christians who differed vastly from the Thomasian Christians. That is the whole point. They weren't the same and influenced the NT
Parables are meant to close the eyes not open them.If Jesus was the one true God who created everything and divinely inspired all the writing in the bible like many Christians proclaim it is then there would be no contradictions in the bible. It would be simple and easy to understand, but in reality is quite complicated and convoluted thus we can safely assumed that the Christian God Jesus doesn't exist.
Partially but not fully. Which is why we have sects (works oriented sects) to this day that put more emphasis on other teachers like James and pay less attention to Paul or try to fit him in somehowIt ended up in Paul's way.
Living in a fantasy no matter how complex is a fantasy regardless starting with "i believe" work on that. Grown ups dont do "i believe" .Is that supposed to be intelligent?
Why don't you believe in the Quran or the Norse Eddas?Parables are meant to close the eyes not open them.
I have my own intuition and also read a lot of Gnostic sources, especially Rudolf Steiner. I have a good Idea what Christ Jesus was about.By reading it her way, you cheated yourself out of applying critical theory to the Bible and seeing what it says itself not through the eyes of another.