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Article #14227Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:21
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:21
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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 ;-) > TLA
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