Posted on 09/15/2025 11:53:15 PM PDT by blueplum
I would not rely on wiki for that info - its too heavily edited by anonymous people
quibble, “Nag Hammadi”.
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-VQak8K5FtBf5Aa6X/The%20Nag%20Hammadi%20Library_djvu.txt
Whatever - origin does nor matter so much, as eliminating the scourge today - >250 odd million murders is quite enough without the 12ers wanting to kill off [ bring to Paradise ] all the rest of the human race.
I’ve read them. I don’t see the connection to Mohammed. Gnostic Gospels that survived (Many many didn’t!) have many Christologies, some sort of fit Koran’s description most don’t.
Again Luxenberg claims the Koran is a mistranslation. Mistranslation by reading it in Arabic, a different but related language that it was written - written originally in Aramaic. By doing this you get a different and sometimes nonsensical work. This is why Islam has to have the Hadiths (commentary - sort of like the Talmud) to have it make any sense. Luxenberg’s works fit in well with the growing historical view that Mohammad as a historical figure never existed. Therefore Mohammad as used in the Koran - Messenger refers to Christ. The earliest coins minted under the Islamic kingdoms still use Christian imagery. Why? Coins historically are ideological statements of new regimes. It’s a hundred years or so before minted coins in that region are identifiably Islamic.
agree. I was never very good at spelling. I do have a spell checker. But this time it didn’t work.
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