tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post7744486552758865769..comments2024-03-22T22:39:49.773-05:00Comments on I don't know, but . . .: Mandaeanjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-79190645304931441892021-05-29T08:52:11.699-05:002021-05-29T08:52:11.699-05:00Fascinating group. some of their overall division...Fascinating group. some of their overall division into World of Light and World of Darkness sound like the writings of the Essenes. though this dualism is in a lot of religions in the area, including Zoroastrianism and Manicheism.<br /><br />As for other gospels and writings in general, because everything was by word of mouth beliefs could morph quickly, but once something was written it was regarded as extremely solid, often magical.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-75512147403965093202021-05-29T08:19:17.988-05:002021-05-29T08:19:17.988-05:00I read "Gospel" of Thomas. Note; in case...I read "Gospel" of Thomas. Note; in case anyone complains, the format of the work is anecdotal and there is therefore no immediate context to take these passages out of. And as for the cultural context, those passages that are intelligible are either alterations to actual quotes by Jesus or else treating the voice of fashion as the voice of God.<br /><br />7. "Jesus said: 'Blessed is the lion which the man shall eat, and the lion become man; and cursed is the man whom the lion shall eat, and the lion become man.'"<br />Tungsten-Tritium-Fluorine?<br /><br />42. "Jesus said: 'Become passers-by.'"<br />That could be interpreted any number of different ways.<br /><br />114. "Simon Peter said to them: 'Let Mary go forth from among us, for women are not worthy of the life.' Jesus said: 'Behold, I shall lead her, that I may make her male, in order that she also may become a living spirit like you males. For every woman who makes herself male shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.'"<br />Oooooooooooookay. I sense a bait-and-switch on Satan's part with the whole Gnosticism-liberates-women claim.Kororahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208444799799287420noreply@blogger.com