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Article #14178Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24
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On Jul 3, 9:21�am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: > The Loan Arranger wrote: > > rbwinn wrote: > > > (HUGE amount of unnecessary quoting snipped) > > >> The Gnostiocs wrote a bunch of garbage about their theory that Jesus > >> Christ did not suffer or die on the cross because he was a God. �They > >> were trying to combine Christianity with Greek mythology. > > > The Catholic Church, on the other hand, tried to merge it with as many > > different contemporary religions as possible, in order to make > > Christianity an easier pill to swallow for "pagan" worshippers. At least > > the Gnostics had the style to call on classical influences! > > All the Gnostics said was you didn't need all this doctrine and dogma, > you could 'know' god directly. > \ > Which is the sense I suspect they meant it, is of course true. > > Howver that didn;tr sut te Romans, who didn't really care about any god > at all: they wanted unification, ciilization, and pacification, and a > sword in one hand and a bible in the other was perfect: If you could > meld that into whatever local nature spirits the Druids had going, so > much the better. > > There have always been a host of angels, urges and demi-urges and > latterly saints, to paste over the original pagan gods. > > Any you found antisocial, became devils and demons, of course. > > For a so-called �monotheistic religion, there are a lot of powerful > beings in the Xtian pantheon ;-) > > What do you mean "all the Gnostics said"? The Gnostics said that Jesus Christ did not suffer on the cross because he was a God. They were apostate Christians. Robert B. Winn
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