tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post6806238186242507354..comments2023-11-02T01:20:32.436-07:00Comments on The Forbidden Gospels: Sabbatical Post 5: The Erasure of Gnostic(ism)April DeConickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-55177574617230078832012-09-17T17:44:03.228-07:002012-09-17T17:44:03.228-07:00This is very interesting. It's funny how when ...This is very interesting. It's funny how when you begin to hear something on a topic you come across it everywhere! I recently heard about a new book, Cover Up: How the Church Silenced Jesus's True Heirs that discusses how the Jewish flavor was removed from Christianity. Lawrence Goudge proposes that the Jewish followers of Jesus preserved the beliefs and practices of the original apostles: Peter, James and John. Therefore, the true heretics were those who created the new religion of the dying God (anathema to Peter James and John). Cover-Up: How the Church Silenced Jesus's True Heirs exposes the church's hypocrisy in first silencing those who truly followed Jesus and then exterminating them, just as they did the Cathars. I just learned of a new book – Cover Up: How the Church Silenced Jesus's True Heirs by Lawrence Goudge. I found it here http://tinyurl.com/69cazll. Let me know what you think of it. VChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703787621144694595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-64106678788882968112012-09-04T22:11:18.013-07:002012-09-04T22:11:18.013-07:00This post looks good.Thanks for sharing the blog.I...This post looks good.Thanks for sharing the blog.I wish you to post the new updates regularly.<br /><br /><a href="http://finansowe-doradztwo.net/" rel="nofollow">najlepsze konto dla firm</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04960097667194202654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-43429082150460873602012-08-30T15:01:41.967-07:002012-08-30T15:01:41.967-07:00Another good post thank you admin, can you visit m...Another good post thank you admin, can you visit my modest blog please, here two best documentaries online: <a href="http://topdocumentariesmovies.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-slender-man.html" rel="nofollow">The Slender Man Documentary Online</a> and the seconde is: <a href="http://topdocumentariesmovies.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-corporation.html" rel="nofollow">Watch The Corporation online</a><br />thanks againWydad Club Casablancahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12091158169871299154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-73024640940152840992012-05-19T22:08:36.322-07:002012-05-19T22:08:36.322-07:00NO RELIGION CAN DIE OUT. GOD CANNOT DIE OUT. GOD...NO RELIGION CAN DIE OUT. GOD CANNOT DIE OUT. GOD IS RELIGION. IF RELIGION DIES OUT THEN IT IS NOT OF GOD. NOT EVERY RELIGION CLAIMING TO BE RELIGION IS.<br /><br />GOD IS A PERSON. KNOW HIM--EVERYTHING ELSE IS BOGUS. YOU ARE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE, ALL.<br /><br />YOU CAN KNOW HIM AS ABRAHAM KNEW HIM. HE IS NOT THEORY. HE IS A PERSON!<br /><br />IF YOU SEEK TRUTH RATHER THAN THEORIZING, YOU FIND HIM! GUARANTEED. <3+Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-13551494764772190012012-05-06T22:19:39.874-07:002012-05-06T22:19:39.874-07:00I meant to write "label"I meant to write "label"monkey kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689955089325169319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-54422652749346653772012-05-06T22:03:18.781-07:002012-05-06T22:03:18.781-07:00I just finished your book Holy Misogyny and all I ...I just finished your book Holy Misogyny and all I can say is wow. I can't wait for this book to come out. I struggle with defining myself as a Gnostic. I understand that the term wasn't invented until the 18th century. I can see that the term may not mean the same to us as to people who called themselves "knowers" in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries. But I understand your point that some people may be trying to erase Gnosticism from history. I certainly see it as a modern literary genre. So I am still formulating my definition of Gnostic(ism). If I lable myself a Sophian Gnostic, what is that?monkey kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689955089325169319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-82126510973711265812012-05-04T16:47:51.075-07:002012-05-04T16:47:51.075-07:00I am in agreement and write about Manichaean origi...I am in agreement and write about Manichaean origins, etc. in my book, 'The Trail of Gnosis'. An opportunity to win 2 free giveaway copies is at Goodreads.com until May 27.<br /><br />Judith MannTaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05722777611511865696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-75738982530327961402012-05-03T09:05:26.377-07:002012-05-03T09:05:26.377-07:00In light of this post, what do you think about the...In light of this post, what do you think about the thesis that David Brakke argues in <i>The Gnostics</i>? Unless I am misunderstanding his argument, he argues for a far more circumscribed usage of the terms "Gnostic" and "Gnosticism" when referring to ancient groups.Heimskringlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631249325791381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-76919714857648628032012-05-02T16:46:47.133-07:002012-05-02T16:46:47.133-07:00Seems to me that one criterion for a "religio...Seems to me that one criterion for a "religion" is some degree of self-consciousness in the members of being in a distinctive group. I think we can point to that with Jews, Christians, Samaritans, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Jains, Moslems, classical pagans, even Brahmanists/Hindus.<br /><br />Recognizing that the word "gnostic" is a modern descriptor (like Hindu), can we point to any overarching indication that those we call Gnostics had that sense of being, so to speak, under a common umbrella? That the various groups identified by St. Irenaeus, for example, saw themselves as related to each other as members of a single whole, or even as being closer or farther from a shared truth?rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-30735133509008423822012-05-02T16:46:45.159-07:002012-05-02T16:46:45.159-07:00Thomasine Traditions in Antiquity: The Social And ...Thomasine Traditions in Antiquity: The Social And Cultural World of the Gospel of Thomas $139.00.<br /><br />Sure would like to be able to afford to buy a copy of this. Perhaps Brill will publish it in paperback some time in the future?ABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536547131562840293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-19012371389098076702012-05-01T08:46:21.598-07:002012-05-01T08:46:21.598-07:00Was the time when the gnostics were formed about t...Was the time when the gnostics were formed about the same time the original christianos (latin) were forced out of the synagogues of Rome into the catacombs? I believe that Vespasian and Titus were responsible for this persecution. The christianos were not 'christians' by the modern definition. The christianos hadn't heard of Jesus. They were the anointed ones who worshipped God in the Spirit. One of the early catacomb images show a mother and child. This was later turned into Mary and Jesus, but the explanation is to be found in worship in the Spirit. The persecution attributed to Nero by Flavian historians was really persecution by Vespasian and Titus who held the power after destroying the temple.<br /><br />The smashing of the christianos led to the growth of christianity with belief in Jesus, and the gnostics.geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-3578719516093235482012-05-01T07:32:48.236-07:002012-05-01T07:32:48.236-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jared Calawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-88773180364457283492012-05-01T07:32:18.210-07:002012-05-01T07:32:18.210-07:00My students hear about Manicheanism in the first l...My students hear about Manicheanism in the first lecture in my Religions of the World class: I start off with the concept if even as vibrant and long-lasting and widespread religious tradition as the Manicheans can die out, any religion can, even theirs.Jared Calawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380681998833566514noreply@blogger.com