Let's talk gnosticism

AlexMcAlpine · 2019-01-05T22:49:46.797Z

I’m assuming we’ve go one Gnostic, if that’s why Gnostic Bishop chose his name.

Here’s something I found at DIctionary.com, when looking up the word AEON.

one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.

GnosticBishop, do you believe these AEONS exist? Can you explain more about them

fathom · 2019-01-05T22:53:21.241Z

I’ve always found gnostic Christianity fascinating

Gnostic_Bishop · 2019-01-07T18:25:07.294Z

AlexMcAlpine:

GnosticBishop, do you believe these AEONS exist? Can you explain more about them

No. Gnostic Christianity does not believe in anything supernatural.

Our myths are full of it but we do not read our myths literally as they were written just for debate and discussion against Christians before they began to read their myths literally and before they became idol worshipers.

The first link in what follows is how we still think about the foolish literal reading of myths.

I hope you can see how intelligent the ancients were as compared to the mental trash that modern preachers and theists are using with the literal reading of myths.

Big Think

What is God?

“A History of God” author Karen Armstrong answers the biggest question of all.

Further.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html

Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus, said that when asked to sum up the whole of Jewish teaching, while he stood on one leg, said, “The Golden Rule. That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. And everything else is only commentary. Now, go and study it.”

Please listen as to what is said about the literal reading of myths.

"Origen, the great second or third century Greek commentator on the Bible said that it is absolutely impossible to take these texts literally. You simply cannot do so. And he said, “God has put these sort of conundrums and paradoxes in so that we are forced to seek a deeper meaning.”

Matt 7;12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

This is how early Gnostic Christians view the transition from reading myths properly to destructive literal reading and idol worship.

Regards
DL

Gnostic_Bishop · 2019-01-07T18:39:20.776Z

fathom:

I’ve always found gnostic Christianity fascinating

In what way?

I found their ways to be far ahead of their time and their ideology to be the most moral I could find.

For instance. You might have read what the writers of the inquisitions said to discredit us and justify their murders by saying we hate matter. When I researched this a bit I found the opposite to be true. Please suffer my longer explanation.

I wrote this to refute the false notion that Gnostic Christians do not like matter and reality that the inquisitors propagated to justify their many murders of my religions originators. It shows that Christians should actually hate matter and not Gnostic Christians.
The Christian reality.
1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Gen 3; 17 Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

The Gnostic Christian reality.
Gnostic Christian Jesus said, “Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]”
“If those who attract you say, ‘See, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, ‘It is under the earth,’ then the fish of the sea will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
[Those who] become acquainted with [themselves] will find it; [and when you] become acquainted with yourselves, [you will understand that] it is you who are the sons of the living Father.
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”

As you can see from that quote, if we see God’s kingdom all around us and inside of us, we cannot think that the world is anything but evolving perfection. Most just don’t see it and live in poverty. Let me try to make you see the world the way I do.

Here is a mind exercise. Tell me what you see when you look around. The best that can possibly be, given our past history, or an ugly and imperfect world?

Candide.
"It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end.”

That means that we live in the best of all possible worlds, given all the conditions at hand and the history that got us here. That is an irrefutable statement given entropy and the anthropic principle.

Regards
DL