:blabla:Gnostic said:What? What?
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Forget bed....Gnostic said:Blah, but true.
The truth hurts. This forums says so.
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All in good fun.Caledvwlch said:Ok, you got me fair and square. That was pretty damned funny.
Of course. :box:Lovejoy said:All in good fun.
Oh for goodness sake, what difference does it make? Christ says we will not marry or be given in marriage, yet there are hints that the Angels may have copulated with humans, and Paul is not terribly clear on the matter of Spiritual flesh except to say that there will be some. Christ is recognizable as a man in the risen form (his Spirit Body), but I do not know what that means. All I can say is that it is not clear, not important, and your infantile language used in this matter is entirely inappropriate. Weenie? Brotwurst? Good grief.Gnostic said:What? What?
It's says that the Father doesn't have a weenie. This false doctrine of the Christians about the God with a bockwurst, first established by the confused Catholics and later inherited by the even more confused Protestants, is unworthy of human Mind.
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Oh well then..................Gnostic said:Robin: "Who's truth... yours?"
Yes mine...
The Gospel according to Gnostic (me)
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Note to the literalist minds within the unconscious collective present here, who can't help themselves: I urge you not to interpret the above scripture literally, neither symbolically, but Abstractly. Then you will be worthy to enter [The Kingdom].
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The use of extra-biblical "documentation" does not prove your arguement.Gnostic said:Lovejoy: "Christ is recognizable as a man in the risen form (his Spirit Body), but I do not know what that means. All I can say is that it is not clear, not important"
I think it's very clear, and most important.
Paul taught a universal Cosmic Christ who is not flesh but a force that is "in you." Others taught a physically resurrected Christ who asked for a steak to eat to prove he wasn't a spirit. These are two diametrically opposed doctrines. Peter's Church (the Catholics), accepted the physical resurrection, the other is the Gnostic Church (the "Spiritual Christians") and they rejected/reject the physical resurrection as Paul did.
Considering that dead men do not rise from their graves (and such events conveniently only happened in times when video cameras were not available), and considering that only the spiritual Christ can be "in you," and also that Paul's writing on the matter was written prior to the synoptics, we reject the parts of the synoptic gospels which teach a physical resurrection as inferior, as added myths to the true teachings, and as invented doctrines suitable for those who prefer material ideas to the spiritual ideas.
John 21:25
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
And how much time did he have to do all this, forty days?
Pistis Sophia (from book one of the six "Books of the Savior")
But it happened that after Jesus had risen from the dead he spent eleven years speaking with his disciples.
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
After he rose from the dead, his twelve disciples and seven women continued to be his followers, and went to Galilee onto the mountain called "Divination and Joy". When they gathered together and were perplexed about the underlying reality of the universe and the plan, and the holy providence, and the power of the authorities, and about everything the Savior is doing with them in the secret of the holy plan, the Savior appeared - not in his previous form, but in the invisible spirit. And his likeness resembles a great angel of light.
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I disagree emphatically. Not with the concept that Jesus was raised in something other than flesh and blood, but that He was raised into something that could not be recognized on the outside. He is in the resurrection body, something that Paul took pains to describe. Daniel saw something like it, as did John. We will all have it, though some will live with it in torment. Do you deny that God was able to eat a meal with Abraham, wrestle with Jacob, or walk in the Garden with Adam and Eve? And that was the God who was truest Spirit! Jesus is in the body that was sown in flesh and raised into new being. And it is a being that is capable of walking on the New Earth (as will we all). But this is all irrelevant to you, I suppose, as we do not even use the same texts for support, and you pick and choose which parts of Scripture to listen too. As such, this is probably a fruitless line of discussion.Gnostic said:Lovejoy: "Christ is recognizable as a man in the risen form (his Spirit Body), but I do not know what that means. All I can say is that it is not clear, not important"
I think it's very clear, and most important.
Paul taught a universal Cosmic Christ who is not flesh but a force that is "in you." Others taught a physically resurrected Christ who asked for a steak to eat to prove he wasn't a spirit. These are two diametrically opposed doctrines. Peter's Church (the Catholics), accepted the physical resurrection, the other is the Gnostic Church (the "Spiritual Christians") and they rejected/reject the physical resurrection as Paul did.
Considering that dead men do not rise from their graves (and such events conveniently only happened in times when video cameras were not available), and considering that only the spiritual Christ can be "in you," and also that Paul's writing on the matter was written prior to the synoptics, we reject the parts of the synoptic gospels which teach a physical resurrection as inferior, as added myths to the true teachings, and as invented doctrines suitable for those who prefer material ideas to the spiritual ideas.
John 21:25
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
And how much time did he have to do all this, forty days?
Pistis Sophia (from book one of the six "Books of the Savior")
But it happened that after Jesus had risen from the dead he spent eleven years speaking with his disciples.
The Sophia of Jesus Christ
After he rose from the dead, his twelve disciples and seven women continued to be his followers, and went to Galilee onto the mountain called "Divination and Joy". When they gathered together and were perplexed about the underlying reality of the universe and the plan, and the holy providence, and the power of the authorities, and about everything the Savior is doing with them in the secret of the holy plan, the Savior appeared - not in his previous form, but in the invisible spirit. And his likeness resembles a great angel of light.
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What Lovejoy, here just said!!!!! :BRAVO:Lovejoy said:I disagree emphatically. Not with the concept that Jesus was raised in something other than flesh and blood, but that He was raised into something that could not be recognized on the outside. He is in the resurrection body, something that Paul took pains to describe. Daniel saw something like it, as did John. We will all have it, though some will live with it in torment. Do you deny that God was able to eat a meal with Abraham, wrestle with Jacob, or walk in the Garden with Adam and Eve? And that was the God who was truest Spirit! Jesus is in the body that was sown in flesh and raised into new being. And it is a being that is capable of walking on the New Earth (as will we all). But this is all irrelevant to you, I suppose, as we do not even use the same texts for support, and you pick and choose which parts of Scripture to listen too. As such, this is probably a fruitless line of discussion.
Thanks. I started to right this huge, properly cited and quoted Scriptural argument when I realized that a gnostic would not even recognize the legitimacy of most of the books that I would have to use, and then just ploped that post down instead. What are you going to do? It isn't even that important, as the nature of Christ is not subject to our logic or even our exegesis. Rather, Jesus is only subject to Himself and His own nature. My best mental picture of Him (in gnostic's case, a picture apparently of nothing) will have no impact on His reality whatsoever. And it will not alter His redemptive power. The only issue, then, is in what state will we spend eternity: as the invisible force put forth by Gnostic, or as the Spiritual Body that I see in Paul's writings?Agape4Robin said:What Lovejoy, here just said!!!!! :BRAVO:
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good point.Lovejoy said:Thanks. I started to right this huge, properly cited and quoted Scriptural argument when I realized that a gnostic would not even recognize the legitimacy of most of the books that I would have to use, and then just ploped that post down instead. What are you going to do? It isn't even that important, as the nature of Christ is not subject to our logic or even our exegesis. Rather, Jesus is only subject to Himself and His own nature. My best mental picture of Him (in gnostic's case, a picture apparently of nothing) will have no impact on His reality whatsoever. And it will not alter His redemptive power. The only issue, then, is in what state will we spend eternity: as the invisible force put forth by Gnostic, or as the Spiritual Body that I see in Paul's writings?
:darwinsm:Agape4Robin said:good point.
But it doesn't hurt to at least try.
Ya know?
Maybe you will strike a chord with him......
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:darwinsm:Lovejoy said::darwinsm:
Wait, were you serious? Honestly, anything is possible. But I am more inclined to speak to a more receptive audience, rather than crack heads with the hardcore of a 2000 year-old heresy.