To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; 1000 silverlings; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg
Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis, knowledge) is a term created by modern scholars to describe a diverse, syncretistic religious movement, especially in the first centuries C.E. Gnostics believed in gnosis, the knowledge of God enabled by secret teachings. - Wikipedia
I fail to see how talking about whether the soul is propagated or created is Gnostic in light of the definition. This has nothing to do with God enabling "secret teachings". Not everything is Gnostic in nature.
You never addressed Ecc 12 nor did you address how God would "propagate" the soul of our Lord Jesus.
To: HarleyD; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; 1000 silverlings; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; ...
... Gnostics believed in gnosis, the knowledge of God enabled by secret teachings. - Wikipedia...I fail to see how talking about whether the soul is propagated or created is Gnostic in light of the definition. HD it helps to go beyond summaries and actually learn something about the subject, and I don't mean this personally but as a matter of principle.
You may wish to read the posts you apparently missed, such as 13,897, and 13,844 in order to get all the references I posted (which I am not going to post again).
I would also like to say that Orgien's Gnostic teaching of the pre-existent souls is Christianity 101, which teaching was even publicly condemned by the 5th cumenical Council. And I must admit that the discovery of an active pre-fab soul belief among Protestants is a real eye-opener.
13,920 posted on
05/03/2007 8:38:02 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: HarleyD; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; 1000 silverlings; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; ...
You never addressed Ecc 12 nor did you address how God would "propagate" the soul of our Lord Jesus The sould doesn't propagate; the soul is created at the moment of conception.
Jesus' human soul was created like everyone else's.
13,921 posted on
05/03/2007 8:41:24 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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