Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.
Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.
There is some pretty funny stuff in some of them - in the Gospel of Peter it talks about Jesus as a child, playing games with his friends and striking them down when he loses!
What a slur on Christ's character! I mean, as if He would lose
There is some pretty funny stuff in some of them - in the Gospel of Peter it talks about Jesus as a child, playing games with his friends and striking them down when he loses!
What a slur on Christ's character! I mean, as if He would lose
Heretical Garbage, They were condemned by St. Paul pretty early on.
In Christ,
Reader Nikolai
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Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels?
Some of 'em, yeah.
and what do you think about them?
Balderdash.
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If you think they're exciting stories starring Tom Hanks, you're in for a surprise.
I've fought my way through quite a few of them. They're a hard read. Dense, rambling speculations for the most part. If you read them, you'll understand very quickly why Mark, Matthew, Luke & John are the four canonical ones. "Gnostic Jesus" rambles on and on about weird, crazy stuff.
Infancy Thomas isn't really a "gnostic gospel". It's a collection of stories.
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No peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
No dialogue among the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions. ~Hans Küng
this 'gospel' is wrong mainly in its notion that Jesus could have acted bitterly or angrily. however (contrary to Dan Brown's ideas) many of these 'gospels' also emphasize traditional Christian teaching on the divinity of Christ.
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Hello. I was just wadering if yall have ever read the gnostic gospels? and what do you think about them? Like is it a good read even if you dont agree with it. They seem interesting and I'm planning to read some of them.
If you have a lot of free time you can afford to throw away...Go for it !
As for me I will stick with THE TRUE GOSPEL of Jesus Christ, approved by the Church in the 4th century.
God speaks through these.
Reading the "Gnostics" would fall into the same category as
reading "the gospel of judas", promoted by National Geo. , or
reading the "duh-vinchy code"... promoted by Hollow-wood.
The enemy speaks through these.
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Whoeever disobeys the Son will not see life,
but must endure the wrath of God.""
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