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Re: GLENO34 post# 32775

Tuesday, 07/18/2006 7:58:50 PM

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:58:50 PM

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guys-

i find this topic very interesting, indeed. right and wrong are in reference to what constant...no answers but some intersting questions...

i'd like to know your take on the nag hamadi and other apocryphal texts. i think it is prudent and incumbent on any christian to carefully consider the implications of this, as well as the events and history of the first several hundered years of christianity. how much is heresay and how much isn/t.

another thing i find interesting- julius caesar wrote many works that we can ascertain to this day - talking about gaellic campaigns, politics, heck even grammar- he invented the term "ablative". there are no contemporaneous accounts of jesus from a part of the world that wwas quite literate. that gets us back to the second paragraph.

why do you think it was so important to bury those texts, away from the roman catholic church authorities. what are the imnplications of that text with regards to the divinity of jesus. could it be that jusus as not a god but a man like everyone else, a prophet nonetheless, but still a man. could this christian view have been in contrast to the roman church teachings wihch sought to deify the man in order to fit the need for a reviously pagan society to have an anthropomorphic god before them to more easily convert these same masses to a more pagan friendly version of the true religion of christianity, ( which we do not know of in today's world) which then would not have been very different from judiasm or islam? but instread was more similar to mithriasm and pagan practices which was so prevalent at the time? what do you think about the birth of jesus on the 25th, a sacred date in the pagan calender,
interesting to say the least....

there are many cultures with the concept of divine incarnation or anthropomorphication of god- the virgin birth, and sacrifice n the parto of the god for the sake of huanity. sound familiear? etc are all recurring themes in mithriasm( mitra), hinduism (Krishna) - read "kristna", osiris and isis in egyptology, etc...


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