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It's ok for YHWH to be morally inconsistent b/c he's a god?

YHWH doesn't seem to abide by his own moral codes. I would think more people would notice ;)

If you consider YHWH to be God it still matters. I'd prefer to serve a God that morally consistent.

God doesn't have to be morally consistent?

How is it justifiable? It doesn't seem loving to condemn people for things they have no control over.

"No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD. 2"No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the LORD." ~ Deuteronomy 23:1-2 Any thoughts...

It's quite a different perspective on Christianity and certainly not for everyone. IMO there isn't necessarily a rejection of a literal Christ but a layered view of Christ as both literal and mythical. "Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. The world...

And that makes them more insidious than any other branch of Christianity that demands you convert or burn in hell??? At least they have the decency to try to sweet talk people. Most branches just bully people with their "turn or burn" garbage.

Is that anything really shocking? Isn't it the nature of man to join a group and then try to convince everyone else to conform to their standards?

There are several Gnostic texts where Christ is laughing. My memory is unfortunately not good with details so I can't quite recall the significance. However there seems to be somewhat of a progression in Sethian writing, to the point where they reject the proto-orthodox view on the...

There was some arguing over the meaning of the crucifixion and what exactly the source of salvation was before Catholicism. I see the Sethian writings as metaphorical arguments about theology, not a literal history. If you are looking to Gnostic texts for history than you are looking in the...

I'm not a scholar, so I can't guess how many citations you need before you learn something useful :P "I did not succumb to them as they had planned. But I was not afflicted at all. Those who were there punished me. And I did not die in reality but in appearance, lest I be put to...

so what is modalism?

I like emanations cosmology personally ;)

There is a Sethian Gnostic text (I'm not sure which one off hand) where another person is substituted to be crucified in the place of Christ at the last minute. I've been told, and it makes perfect sense, that this text was used as a framework for a similar story in the Koran...

That's an interesting observation ;)

I enjoy "arguing" to an extent, but when things get nasty I have to question the purpose. I haven't been posting here much lately, in part b/c of all the "Christian" trolls. It seems like a lot of people that have posted on the forum worship their own opinions as if they were gods...

I think one of the things to learn from the WBC is that it is impossible to give every teaching of the Bible equal weight. I know Soulgazer posted here before that justice and love are opposing forces, and that's something I'd have to agree with. When you read the Bible you'll either have to...

Obviously the Apocalypse of Paul isn't representative of the entirity of early Christianity. However Christianity was fractured from the get-go so there isn't any one text that is going to summon up pre-Catholic beliefs. Reincarnation was one of many beliefs some early Christians held. That...

If Armageddon is anything it simply represents the moment when God defeats evil. I seriously doubt there will be a great final war that is fought on a battlefield at all. I think expecting Christ to literally come down and butcher His enemies with a sword would be absolutely ridiculous.