I have heard of Sophia, but I can't exactly place her in the spiritual family tree, so to speak. I thought I had remembered her as being almost a cousin to...
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pamela661
Mar 8, 2005 11:06 am
Just curious what some thoughts are on Mary Magedeline - girl Jesus rescued, Jesus' lover, Jesus' wife, possible author of her own gospels, etc? Also perhaps...
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pmcvflag
Mar 8, 2005 4:39 am
Hey Mike.... ... Gnostics?"<<< Interestingly, it did. In fact, it predates Gnosticism and existed all the way back in the time of the pre-Socratics...
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pmcvflag
Mar 8, 2005 4:05 am
Hey Thomas, thanks for all the info. I am looking in to the Quanzhou angle to see whether this looks like perhaps a wide liguistic sweep (like the page...
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lady_caritas
Mar 7, 2005 11:08 pm
There is much to address here, but I'll just bring up a few points to focus on for now, and perhaps others would like to join in, too. As far as historical...
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pamela661
Mar 7, 2005 10:56 pm
In my ventures, I have only read a little Darwin, but if I remember correctly he did not completely trace the theory of evolution from apes to humans. In...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 7, 2005 7:15 pm
hi Gich... You wrote: Hi Crispin. You write 'if you're asking whether or not a contemporary Gnostic can find "a place for the Theory of evolution," then i...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 7, 2005 3:53 am
too funny, Gerry... just keep switching euphemisms and it gets even funnier. my wife prefers inserting "morning wood." in the verse that is. Crispin Sainte...
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Gerry
gerryhsp
Mar 7, 2005 1:32 am
I've had some questions of my own lately concerning variations in the translations of biblical passages. Anyone familiar with The Complete Gospels (Robert J....
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Raven Skydancer
skydancer26
Mar 6, 2005 10:49 pm
Hi Cary; You wrote; "It sometimes can be excruciating reading old stuff we wrote.LOL ;-)" In looking back on some of the old stuff I have written in times ...
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Mike Leavitt
gnositc
Mar 6, 2005 10:08 pm
Hello gich ... Did evolution as a concept even exist at the time of the Gnostics? Regards -- Mike Leavitt ac998@......
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Raven Skydancer
skydancer26
Mar 6, 2005 9:49 pm
Hi Gich; I asked my inner being, my God Self within me, whom I call High Self, and the answer was,"YES", to your question... The Gnostic Gospels were not meant...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 6, 2005 9:48 pm
hi gich... i'd say maybe there's a place. how noncommittal is that? but i'm not sure what you mean, "is there a place?" are you asking if, like Rumi,...
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lady_caritas
Mar 6, 2005 3:55 pm
Thomas, thank you for all your research. I look forward to reading your information. Also, I'll correct and repost the first and last links from your reply...
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lady_caritas
Mar 6, 2005 3:39 pm
... Hello, Gich. I just did a search on the group message board search engine and found a thread from about 2 ½ years ago touching on "evolution." With all...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 6, 2005 2:14 pm
hi Mike/PMCV... it just so happens, in today's "Did you know..." section of their home page (they post some of their newest articles there), Wikipedia presents...
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Thomas Leavitt
thomas_leavitt
Mar 6, 2005 10:30 am
Hmm... the Gnosis Archive has a page on Manicheanism that references it surviving up to the present century in the "Orient". ...
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Mike Leavitt
gnositc
Mar 6, 2005 6:13 am
Hello pmcvflag ... I wish I could, but some guy at church was talking about a journal article he had read, and I was not part of the conversation. My older...
10719
pmcvflag
Mar 6, 2005 4:23 am
Hey Mike Well, I was aware that Malabar was one of the later outposts, but last I heard it was still around the 1500s when they were last spotted there. If you...
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elmoreb
Mar 5, 2005 8:16 am
As a correction to my last post, the Revised std edition does mention gamaliel and it agrees with the NIV version. I was using a bible/version search and got a...
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elmoreb
Mar 5, 2005 8:16 am
... let ... Sure, Ill jump in ;) I was actually wrestling with the problems of Paul not long before this thread started. I think I mentioned it in my last...
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Mike Leavitt
gnositc
Mar 5, 2005 2:00 am
Hello pmcvflag ... Actually I have read somewhere that there are actual Manacheans still active in the Malabar part of India, original ones, not neos. How ...
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Gerry
gerryhsp
Mar 4, 2005 10:58 pm
... If we're being honest here ... a good, fresh fig is hard to come by! As for Paul, I think you have echoed similar observations that we have made in the...
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Marina
marinas_snake
Mar 4, 2005 5:55 am
... let ... hmmm..I will add something to this converstation, but it will have to wait until tomorrow, it is late and I have to get up early for work in the...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 4, 2005 4:30 am
Golly, that was long *lol*. I guess I should rest a bit here and let other people jump in. PMCV hi PMCV... yes, very long, and i've enjoyed every second....
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pmcvflag
Mar 4, 2005 4:05 am
Hey Crispin.... ... legend than fact," the only reference i found was to later CHRISTIAN legends that exacerbate and/or distort his importance, not JEWISH...
10709
Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 4, 2005 12:55 am
hi PMCV... sorry for the late response, but here goes nothin'. ... it comes to such "foundings" other than simple claimsmanship: i.e., to my knowledge...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 3, 2005 7:31 pm
thanks, Mike... maybe its the times and culture he was exposed to. i know very little about Augustine, but its not all that surprising to me that any man...
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Mike Leavitt
gnositc
Mar 3, 2005 3:53 pm
Hello Tsharpmin7@... ... Basicallly the dark and pessamistic world view, of which original sin was his coup de ta (sp?). Negative ideas aout sex is...
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Tsharpmin7@...
Mar 3, 2005 1:27 pm
hi Mike... you wrote: "What became Christianity would not have happened without Paul and Augustine, not that James version was Christianity, and probably ...
