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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By the way, Adam and Eve did know good and evil. Eve just wanted to be her own god and decide for herself what is good and bad. And Adam just followed Eve knowing full well what he was doing. This was not a case of them being ignorant. They were thieves who took something that didn´t belong to them. It was not a case of them aquiring knowledge. They already had that. They were well educated. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 18 I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes away from the words in this prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city described in this book. 20 12 The one who gives this testimony says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! 21 |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Donna, Adam and Eve already knew the difference between good and evil before they ate the fruit. God does not keep us blinded and then hopes that we trip up so He can punish us or even educate us. He educates us and warns us just like He did to the people in Bible times. Before anything happens. Look at Ninevah for one example. Anyway, Eve just really thought she could be a god. And Adam knew full well what had happened but just chose Eve over God. Adam and Eve disobeyed with FULL KNOWLEGES OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING. There is not more to it. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BTW, the fruit was nothing special. It did not give them knowledge. It just *represented* God´s right to rule. That is all. Our first parents were theieves and they selfish. Just proves that perfect people can be complete idiots. Just like the angels who followed Satan were. They knew what they were doing also. Satan tempted them and they took the bait. Perfect beings full of selfishness and wickedness. |
aen 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here you have the Sum 260, from the bottom to the top, from the nght hand to the left, and by the Diagonal; the lesser Number of 260 is 8, the Number of Jesod; as also the Root of the whole Square is 8. The Symbol of the first Sum is 260, which makes the word Sar, i.e., "he went back," because in going forward the Sum always goes backward through the units. For Example, if you begin with 2, reckoning the first Column for 8 the Sum will be 268, which is resolved in 7. If you begin with the 3 (reckoning 8 for the second Column) the Sum will be 276, which resolves into 6. And so of the rest. And so also the number of Purifications increasing, the Weight of thy Water decreases. [link to www.levity.com] numbers, books the experience of truth, rather than the knowledge of truth |
Donna 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | >>>>Constantine didnt give me anything. This book was written by the apostle John. Historians and people who gave their lives have a little more believability than some of the trash you push.>>>> The apostle John in the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ was a vision. Why do you believe that vision is valid, but not this vision of Johns? The very fact that these manuscripts were hidden away from the corruptors makes it much more valid to me. Thessa, the vision given to John does not state a time frame, but it goes back to all before there was anything but the Eternal All. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Of course we can always consider that the story of Adam and Eve has just a figurative meaning without any common point with the real origins of humans on Earth. Well, people can believe this but science proves it wrong. DNA studies indicate one male and one female ancestor of all mankind. We are all related to one another!! In recent years, scientists have researched human genes extensively. By comparing human genetic patterns around the earth, they found clear evidence that all humans have a common ancestor, a source of the DNA of all people who have ever lived, including each of us. In 1988, Newsweek magazine presented those findings in a report entitled “The Search for Adam and Eve.” Those studies were based on a type of mitochondrial DNA, genetic material passed on only by the female. Reports in 1995 about research on male DNA point to the same conclusion—that “there was an ancestral ‘Adam,’ whose genetic material on the [Y] chromosome is common to every man now on earth,” as Time magazine put it. Whether those findings are accurate in every detail or not, they illustrate that the history we find in Genesis is highly credible, being authored by One who was on the scene at the time. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Donna, I. SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GNOSTICISM For many centuries Gnosticism was known almost exclusively from the writings of Christian opponents. By the middle of the second century the Roman apolo- gist Justin had composed a treatise, now lost, in which he argued that Gnostic movements, inspired by demons, first arose after Christ´s ascension. The first Gnostic teacher was Simon Magus (who in Acts 8 is not depicted as a Gnostic); he was followed by his disciple Menander and, later on, by Marcion of Pontus. Justin´s argument is not convincing, for Menander held himself to be the revealer and can hardly have been Simon´s disciple, while Marcion´s doctrines had little to do with either Simon or Menander. Justin was trying to show the generic development of Gnosticism from a single, demon-inspired source, and he was uncritically followed by later antiheretical writers. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | -snip- And all the angels and demons worked until they had constructed the natural body. And their product was completely inactive and motionless for a long time. From what I am getting here is that this is saying that God did not create Adam but the angels and demons did. This goes against the whole Bible which said God created everything. And there were no demons until AFTER angels decided to follow Satan into disobedience LONG AFTER Adam and Eve sinned. Angels became demons when they came to earth in Noah´s day to mate with the women and not before. They weren´t fallen angels or demons before that. I´ll just keep to the Bible and to the original language which is free of Constantine´s and the Council of Nicea´s lies. I also don´t need anything in addition to what we already have in the Bible which makes perfect sense to me. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | of the Apocryphon of John begin and end with a framework relating the Gnostic revelation to Christian tradition. At the beginning, John, the son of Zebedee, sees a vision on a mountain top; at the end, he tells his fellow disciples what the savior said to him. In the middle, however, there is the revelation itself, which clearly reflects the Old Testament narrative but reinterprets it drastically. The revealer appears in “a unity of many forms” and declares himself to be the Father, the Mother, and the Son; but the ultimate reality is a spirit of immeasurable light, transcending all gods. From this spirit proceeded a series of emana- tions, the lowest of which, Wisdom, produced from herself an ugly son named Ialdabaoth (presumably a parody of some form of the name Yahweh). In turn Ialdabaoth produced twelve angels, each accompanied by seven more; each of the seven had three “powers.” Then he made twelve more “authorities” or “princi- palities,” seven to rule over the seven heavens, five over the underworld. The total is thus 360 and corre- sponds with the days in a lunar year. In various lists the seven world-rulers are assigned slightly different names, but in essence all are based on names of Yahweh in the Old Testament (Yahweh, Adonai, Elohim, Sabaoth). Thus far, only the names suggest any relation to the Old Testament. At this point, however, the Apocryphon begins to correct the Old Testament narrative. It was Ialdabaoth who said, “I am a jealous god; there is no other god beside me”—thus proving that other gods really exist. What was “borne about” (Genesis 1:2 in Greek) was not the wind or the spirit of Elohim but Ialdabaoth´s mother, who had just realized that he had emanated from her. This took place “not as Moses said, Above the waters.” The seven authorities saw an image re- flected from the Holy Perfect Father above and said to one another, “Let us make a man after the image and after the appearance of God.” They were unable to give him life, and therefore some of Wisdom´s power had to be breathed into him before he could stand upright. The whole story of paradise, largely “not as Page 329, Volume 2 Moses said,” tells of how Ialdabaoth and the others tried to maintain control over the man. |
Donna 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | User 1415 >>> I also don´t need anything in addition to what we already have in the Bible which makes perfect sense to me.>>>> Good for you! You can learn nothing from this thread, nor can you add to it! You already know it all! LoL User 8743..Thank you for that synopsis. |
aen 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The God-Shaped Hole It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. -- Jorge Luis Borges (1951), "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal," in Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962 There is a hole in the universe. It is not like a hole in a wall where a mouse slips through, solid and crisp and leading from somewhere to someplace. It is rather like a hole in the heart, an amorphous and edgeless void. It is a heartfelt absence, a blank space where something is missing, a large and obvious blind spot in our understanding of the universe. That missing something, strange to say, is a grasp of nothing itself. Understanding nothing matters, because nothing is the all-important background upon which everything else happens. Seen through the eyes of faith, religion´s future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature -- one whose morphe (form) is theos -- God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image of God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them. Searching for an image of the divine that will fit, they paw over various options as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, matching them successively to the gaping hole at the puzzle´s center.... They keep doing this until the right "piece" is found. When it slips into place, life´s jigsaw puzzle is solved. How so? Because the sight of the picture that then emerges is so commanding that it swings attention from the self who is viewing the picture to the picture itself. This epiphany, with its attendant ego-reduction, is salvation in the West and enlightenment in the East. [link to m759.freeservers.com] |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When I read something like the angels and demons created man then I don´t need to go any further. I know everything else is going to be wrong also. Almighty God created it ALL. I stand at that basic belief. And again I don´t know it ALL. Only Almighty God knows it all. But I do know the basics and a little more and how they harmonize with the whole Bible. I left gnostic teachings long ago along with my dealings with demons who are very real. |
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Lester 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hi Kiddo, Hope you are well. Wow! It is as if every idea and concept that´s out there, even those that are "out-there"; you are drawn to and compelled to search out. Ever think about why you are looking everywhere for answers? Has something happened in your life that has caused you to doubt God? I recall a much more concise witness and awareness from you in the past. The Living God has revealed all we need to know to us. HE is en-route to us in the form of Jesus to reclaim this world. Now is the time to be drawing near to HIM, if you still acknowledge HIM; not looking for proof under every rock and in every shadow. We are strong IN-HIM, called to endure until the end. The End is coming; almost here. Why not be sure you are okay with HIM by seeking HIM where you know HE IS, not spending your Final Moments making HIM prove HE IS THERE over and over. I am pulling for you and every other seeker. Why not let HIM pull for you to, and cast off all the extraneous baggage you will never use again? All we need to Keep IS HIM! |
Donna 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | >>>I left gnostic teachings long ago along with my dealings with demons who are very real.>>> Of course they are very real. You obviously didn´t have your heart full of God, or the demons could not have led you astray. Jesus said that if you throw the deomon out and don´t fill that room up,(He´s talking about filling that space up with God´s spirit), the demons will come back and bring 7 more with him. -edit- BTW, if the knowledge you have is suficcient for you, that is good and well. Jesus also said you will be given truth, in proporation to how much you are ready to receive it. |
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aen 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | donna the trigger word for me on that page is "Still for a third time I went - I am the light which exists in the light, I am the remembrance of the Pronoia - that I might enter into the midst of darkness and the inside of Hades. And I filled my face with the light of the completion of their aeon. And I entered into the midst of their prison, which is the prison of the body. And I said, ´He who hears, let him get up from the deep sleep.´ And he wept and shed tears. Bitter tears he wiped from himself and he said, ´Who is it that calls my name, and from where has this hope come to me, while I am in the chains of the prison?´ And I said, ´I am the Pronoia of the pure light; I am the thinking of the virginal Spirit, who raised you up to the honored place. Arise and remember that it is you who hearkened, and follow your root, which is I, the merciful one, and guard yourself against the angels of poverty and the demons of chaos and all those who ensnare you, and beware of the deep sleep and the enclosure of the inside of Hades. And I raised him up, and sealed him in the light of the water with five seals, in order that death might not have power over him from this time on." < [link to www.gnosis.org] > pronoia |
Donna 12/08/2005 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 8743>>>>Why do you deride scripture that you claim was corrupt but have no proof of this and yet believe dubious writings that are in direct opposite of Gods will and sources that are proven corrupt?>>>> Therein lies the problem. People have repeatedly posted how the bible was put together, but christians are so mind controled, they will not see the truth of the many historical accounts about the council of Nicea and Constantine. -edit- You are worshiping a book that was approved by a pagan worshiper. |