It makes perfectly good sense to me. What's the first thing that you have to have when you become a Jew? You have to get a nice circumcision. What's the first...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Nov 14, 1999 3:00 am
... Anybody think that priests of the Great Goddess castrated themselves in her honor and that when matriarchy gave way to patriarchy followers of the male god...
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Robert Tessman
tess0006@...
Nov 13, 1999 11:24 pm
... I doubt Circumcision had anything to do with 'cleanliness'. More than anything it was a Mark of one's Israeli ancestry. It probably began as a rite to...
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Zen Ma
zen_ma@...
Nov 13, 1999 10:39 pm
... I think it means peeling away delusion and seeing The Truth. Zenma ______________________________________________________...
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 13, 1999 8:34 pm
... Thanks Paul --- this is just the sort of information I was hoping for. These "Thomasines" may know a lot about the RCC and GOT --since its "Cosa Nostra". ...
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Jim Bauer
jbauer@...
Nov 13, 1999 8:33 pm
... From: joseph baxter <joseph@...> To: Jon Peter <jnp@...> Cc: GThomas@egroups.com <GThomas@egroups.com> Date: Saturday, November 13, 1999 12:09 AM ...
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Jon Peter
jnp@...
Nov 13, 1999 4:35 pm
... I think it means that one really wants to do God's will rather than just flowing with a convention. As noted before, this goes back to Jer 4.4 ( '...
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Paul Miller
pm@...
Nov 13, 1999 4:31 pm
Does anyone have any information on what the current RCC's attitude and approach to the GOT is? Tord----------------------------------------------------- There...
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joseph baxter
joseph@...
Nov 13, 1999 4:06 pm
... Several ideas occur to me: 1. Circumcision of the spirit suggests predominance of that which is spiritual over that which is rooted in another level. 2....
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 13, 1999 3:28 pm
... wash). ... "Circumcision in spirit" could mean to believe something totally irrational just because you believe "God" told you to believe it. Perhaps like...
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Brian Turner
bturner@...
Nov 13, 1999 9:28 am
From Joe Baxter ... Sorry I've just joined this list and didn't see the original. The Paul-James controversy is concerned with the circumcision customs of...
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joseph baxter
joseph@...
Nov 13, 1999 7:25 am
... Are you take this out of its setting? Is hate the best way to describe what is being taught here? The disciple is asked to take up the cross of his...
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joseph baxter
joseph@...
Nov 13, 1999 7:05 am
... What do you think is meant by "the true circumcision in spirit"? This is an interesting choice of imagery. With kind regards, Joe Baxter joe...
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Andrew Bernhard
abernhar@...
Nov 11, 1999 9:44 pm
Hello ... Yes. ... Yes, it contains the first recovered fragment of the Gospel of Thomas (a.k.a. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1). ... It so happens yes. I have put the...
1728
skirl@...
Nov 11, 1999 7:08 pm
I don't have time to reply to Wynn Manners questions, I'd say, RTFM, preferably "The Gospel of Thomas Homepage" at http://home.epix.net/~miser17/Thomas.html...
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Wynn Manners
wynnmanners@...
Nov 11, 1999 6:23 pm
Has anyone posting at this list seen a copy of LOGIA IESOU: SAYINGS OF OUR LORD FROM AN EARLY GREEK PAPYRUS (1897) as translated by Bernard P. Grenfell? i see...
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Michael Grondin
mgrondin@...
Nov 11, 1999 12:50 pm
Tord- This off-topic descent into obscurantism was voluntarily dropped by the parties involved over two weeks ago. I don't see anything in your note that ...
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 11, 1999 11:43 am
... Isn't this like the tree falling in the forest model ? Without the human mind to be conscious of "spirit" -- like sound, does it exist ? The oceans of...
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Davies
miser17@...
Nov 10, 1999 11:43 pm
I almost quoted all of Jacob's letter and commented "I agree." But that's not proper procedure. So I'll just agree without the quoting. Steve...
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Jacob Knee
jknee@...
Nov 10, 1999 10:53 pm
Look I'm no Roman Catholic but the obvious truth is that as a non-canonical text the Gospel of Thomas is not authoritative for the life of the Roman Catholic...
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Craig Gibson
Craig.Gibson@...
Nov 10, 1999 8:47 pm
... I asked my question to try to understand why the RCC feels that the GoT has nothing to do with it, not to get into semantic arguments. You can easily...
1721
mgrondin@...
Nov 10, 1999 8:11 pm
... On the contrary, they are not "the same". The truth-value of a sentence cannot be determined without knowing the reference of ... The truth-value of this...
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Craig Gibson
Craig.Gibson@...
Nov 10, 1999 5:25 pm
... It really does not matter who I am speaking as in this context. My question and points are still the same. Craig...
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Michael Grondin
mgrondin@...
Nov 10, 1999 4:03 pm
... Who is "us", Craig? Are you speaking as an RC? As a Christian? As a list-member? Bear in mind that this list includes many people to whom Jesus is NOT "our...
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Craig Gibson
Craig.Gibson@...
Nov 10, 1999 1:23 pm
Why would the RCC have the attitude that it has nothing to do with us? Whether the document contains some truths about Jesus or not, it purports to deal with...
1717
Davies
miser17@...
Nov 10, 1999 2:23 am
... Being a Professor of Religious Studies at a Catholic College gives me no particular official voice in this matter, but surely the RCC's current attitude...
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 9, 1999 10:53 am
Does anyone have any information on what the current RCC's attitude and approach to the GOT is? Tord . . . . . ....
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 3, 1999 9:52 am
... The accounts of James portray him as being very much a "rules-oriented Jew". Perhaps Jesus knew something we do not know ---- ... "You, however, be as...
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Jon Peter
jnp@...
Nov 3, 1999 9:16 am
Anybody besides me ever notice that GThom manages to take 2 opposite sides in the Paul-James controversy? First you got this -- L 12-- The disciples said to...
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Tord Svenson
raptord@...
Nov 1, 1999 9:46 am
... Joe --- thanks for the reply ----- Take a look at http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/text/presoc/presoc.htm Heraclitus and Parmenides These are lists of their...
