Posted on 12/07/2007 1:13:57 PM PST by blam
GGG Ping.
The so-called gospel flagrantly contradicts the rest of NT scripture. It’s a fake no matter how it’s translated.
Delusions of grandeur to the max!
I wonder if Pseudo-Dionysus is behind this silly story too. He sure fooled a lot of gullible people over the centuries.
As she says, it’s still a Gnostic gospel, written with the intention of attacking and undermining Christianity.
That’s why these false gospels are so appealing. National Geographic is not immune to the anti-Christian currents of our time.
It’s reported by the BY Slimes so it has to be true(sarc on).
Makes me think of Dan Rather.
Did the NIE include a review of the Gospels too?
The Gnostics WERE Christians. They just were not Pauline Christians.
Were the Arians Christians? Were the Cathras Christians?
If it’s not in that Black Book, it’s not true.
But if so, why would anyone take it seriously? Might as well trust the story of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree rather then documents from the actual time of George Washington.
A sizable portion of the NT was written to contradict incipient gnostic “Christianity”. Gnostic "Christianity" may have been done in Jesus name, but it was not his gospel.
How is it handled when Judas hangs himself and his insides pop out and that’s according to the Bible?
I guess delusional people think that if you rewrite history it can change reality. It can’t.
It is a well known Gnostic fraud. The value of the text, is that we now have a copy, to go along with early church fathers writings that exposed it as a fraud.
The basic positions of the Gnostics could be summed up by three basic points:
1) The biblical God, or Jahweh, who created the world was an evil demon. The real God is inaccessible.
2) Gnostic means secret knowledge. You have insiders who know what is going on, and the rest of the peons are expected to serve and worship them.
3) Matter is evil, spirit is good. (Which is why the creation of the world was evil.)
Sorry, but I don’t think that’s Christian, in any meaningful sense of the word.
If you look into the Arians and Cathars you find some considerable problems, too, from a Protestant as well as a Catholic perspective.
Are Unitarians Christian? No, not in any meaningful sense. Are Muslims Christian? They think that Jesus was a prophet, but they certainly are not Christians.
No. They were not.
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