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Care to compare the Jesus you know to the one I know?

I have been asked to do an O P showing my beliefs and have written anutshell view to fill that request.

I was a skeptic till the age of 39. I then had an apotheosis and laterbranded myself an esoteric ecumenist and Gnostic Christian. Gnostic Christianbecause I exemplify this quote from William Blake and that makes me as hated byChristians today as the ancient Gnostics that Constantine had the Christianskill when he bought the Catholic Church.

“Both read the Bible day andnight, But thou read'st black where I read white.”

This refers to how Gnostics tend to reverse, for moral reasons, whatChristians see in the Bible. We tend to recognize the evil ways of the O. T.God where literal Christians will see God’s killing as good.Christians are sheep where Gnostic Christians are goats.

This is perhaps why we see the use of a Jesus scapegoat as immoral,while theists like to make Jesus their beast of burden. An immoral position.

During my apotheosis, something that only lasted 5 or 6 seconds, theonly things of note to happen was that my paradigm of reality was confirmed andI was chastised to think more demographically. What I found was what I call acosmic consciousness. Not a new term but one that is a close but not exact fit.

I recognize that I have no proof. That is always the way withapotheosis.
This is also why I prefer to stick to issues of morality because no onehas yet been able to prove that God is real and I have no more proof than theyfor the cosmic consciousness or what I call; the Godhead.

The cosmic consciousness is not a miracle working God. It does notinterfere with us save when one of us finds it. Not a common thing from what Ican see. It is a part of nature and our next evolutionary step.

I tend to have more in common with atheists who ignore what they see asmy delusion because our morals are basically identical. Theist tend not to likeme much as I have no respect for literalists and fundamentals and think thatmost Christians have exaggerated tribal mentalities and poor morals as theyhave developed a double standard to be able to stomach their God.

I am rather between a rock and a hard place but this I cannot help.

I am happy to be questioned on what I believe but whether or not Godexists is basically irrelevant to this world for all that he does not do, and Iprefer to thrash out moral issues that can actually find an end point. Thesearch for God is never ending when you are of the Gnostic persuasion. Myapotheosis basically says that I am to ignore whatever God I found, God as aset of rules that is, not idol worship it but instead, raise my bar ofexcellence and seek further.

My apotheosis also showed me that God has no need for love, adoration orobedience. He has no needs. Man has dominion here on earth and is to be and isthe supreme being.

Since then, I have tried to collect information that would help any thatbelieve that apotheosis is possible, generally not Christians, --- as they donot believe in the mythical esoteric Jesus that I believe in and churches donot dare teach it.

This first clip gives the theological and philosophical interpretationof what Jesus taught and the second clip show what I think is a closerepresentation of the method that helped me push my apotheosis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbesfXXw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSVl_HOo8Y

Basically, the usual Christian Jesus is their hero and savior while myversion demand that man himself steps up to the plate and save himself.

Which version do you think is more moral and deserving of praise andwhy?

Regards
DL
 
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NO...............just kidding but it was the first thing that popped in my head when I read the thread title.
 

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I don't care to compare "my" Jesus either I will just post this:
The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life
Genesis 3:14

Enjoy being the resident trouble maker.
 

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I don't care to compare "my" Jesus either I will just post this: Genesis 3:14

Enjoy being the resident trouble maker.

Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves:be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Your reading has been impaired by your dogma and tradition. You should really try to think for yourself.

Test all things your bible says. Let's test and see if the serpent is wise or evil now that I have annulled your quote with my own. Let's chat and not just have a thumping war. Let us reason together.

Scriptures say that we should try to emulate God and become as much like him as possible. Right?

The serpent was instrumental in opening A & E's eyes and as God said, making them as Gods in the knowing of good and evil.
IOW, the serpent made them more like God which is what scriptures and common sense tells us is good.

Do you think A & E would have been better humans in staying blind, not developing a moral sense and remaining further from God?

Also. Did you know that the Jews, the originators of this myth, saw Eden not as the fall that Christians later called it but as the place of man's elevation without the Christian concept of original sin?

What do you think of that?

Regards
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I don't care to compare "my" Jesus either I will just post this: Genesis 3:14

Enjoy being the resident trouble maker.

I do. It is my forte.

I forgot to ask.

Was the snake under Satan's control?

God just seems to call it a natural animal and we know that natural animals cannot talk human.

Careful with your answer. I have a caveat.

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NO...............just kidding but it was the first thing that popped in my head when I read the thread title.

No problem. Most think that there is only one Jesus in the bible while others see more than one.
That is part of the problem when using archetypal literary characters.

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Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves:be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Your reading has been impaired by your dogma and tradition. You should really try to think for yourself.

Test all things your bible says. Let's test and see if the serpent is wise or evil now that I have annulled your quote with my own. Let's chat and not just have a thumping war. Let us reason together.

Scriptures say that we should try to emulate God and become as much like him as possible. Right?

The serpent was instrumental in opening A & E's eyes and as God said, making them as Gods in the knowing of good and evil.
IOW, the serpent made them more like God which is what scriptures and common sense tells us is good.

Do you think A & E would have been better humans in staying blind, not developing a moral sense and remaining further from God?

Also. Did you know that the Jews, the originators of this myth, saw Eden not as the fall that Christians later called it but as the place of man's elevation without the Christian concept of original sin?

What do you think of that?

Regards
DL




Since Adam and Eve were made in the Image of God (who is good) they already had the knowledge of GOOD all that their disobedience gave them was the knowledge of EVIL
 

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Just look up all the OP's started threads on this forum. You may start to see a pattern:24:

That said, he sticks to his guns, I'll give him that much credit. However, he is as worse as those he finds fault with IMO.
 

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Since Adam and Eve were made in the Image of God (who is good) they already had the knowledge of GOOD all that their disobedience gave them was the knowledge of EVIL

Sigh. Ok. They ate from the tree of evil just as scriptures say. Get the quote please.

Seems we have no place to go from this fiction.

Regards
DL
 

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The Bible is filled with allegory and parables, only those who have or seriously are seeking the spirit of God can understand this. Those who mock the word of God can't.
 

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"Care to compare the Jesus you know to the one I know?

Your being a gnostic warrior priest, a claimant of secret gnostic godly powers, I really don't see your input being particularly enlightening. Entertaining, yes.

Also note, this thread was in the middle of the first page of the debate forum for all to see upon a visit.
It seems to upset you that I respond. I could offer a suggestion
 

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It's a tough issue, as no one can really "prove" that God exists or that "he" doesn't.

I personally think there is a superior being, not sure about the bible though. Churches and Christians seem to have too many differing opinions that makes me stay away from them.
 

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It's a tough issue, as no one can really "prove" that God exists or that "he" doesn't.

I personally think there is a superior being, not sure about the bible though. Churches and Christians seem to have too many differing opinions that makes me stay away from them.

The bible to me is a consolidation of many of the old beliefs. Note that I only quote the esoteric parts in those clips.

Salvation is the issue. If you are not taking the immoral position of trying to ride Jesus as your scapegoat into heaven then we have no argument.

If you have a spiritual itch to scratch though, the method shown in bill's clip can help.

All you need do is internalize the mythical Jesus and let him do his work within you. Jesus, in the method shown has to become your avatar to your own subconscious. So to speak. Almost like a dream character you control and is you at the same time. Not super easy and that is why meditation or deep thinking of nothing is helpful.

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Trying to dress up your gnostic warrior priest image these days with tunes, I see. :D

Maybe you'd be more impressive with rap ? A little gangsta, maybe.......:D
 

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"Care to compare the Jesus you know to the one I know?

Your being a gnostic warrior priest, a claimant of secret gnostic godly powers, I really don't see your input being particularly enlightening. Entertaining, yes.

Also note, this thread was in the middle of the first page of the debate forum for all to see upon a visit.
It seems to upset you that I respond. I could offer a suggestion

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Trying to dress up your gnostic warrior priest image these days with tunes, I see. :D

Maybe you'd be more impressive with rap ? A little gangsta, maybe.......:D

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What?
No gangsta rap? :D

Well, let's go take a look at your opening post and at the same time wonder how you get away with making incredible unfounded claims.

excerpt from opening post:
..............
I was a skeptic till the age of 39. I then had an apotheosis and laterbranded myself an esoteric ecumenist and Gnostic Christian. ..................


Show of hands......how many bothered to investigate what an 'apotheosis' is?
I had to look it up myself the first time I saw snake dude post the claim.

Here we go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
excerpt:
In theology, the term apotheosis refers to the idea that an individual has been raised to godlike stature. In art, the term refers to the treatment of any subject (a figure, group, locale, motif, convention or melody) in a particularly grand or exalted manner.

snake dude. :D.....you might be a 'piece of work', ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=piece of work ) but definitely not in the artsy/craftsy way.
But contextually, you do fit the theological meaning.

You claim to have been raised to a godlike stature.

and that makes me as hated byChristians today as the ancient Gnostics that Constantine had the Christianskill when he bought the Catholic Church.
I suspect it's the false god image seen in you, imho.


I am rather between a rock and a hard place but this I cannot help.
Not being a mental healthcare expert, I can only offer the advice of enlisting one in order to seek good mental health.


Since then, I have tried to collect information that would help any thatbelieve that apotheosis ( edit:emphasis mine) is possible, generally not Christians, --- as they donot believe in the mythical esoteric Jesus that I believe in and churches donot dare teach it.

( sigh! )


Which version do you think is more moral and deserving of praise andwhy?

Thanks for sharing, but, let's face it.......I just don't trust you with theological discussions.
I do not accept you as a god, nor godlike, nor with any godlike powers.
So when you present yourself as one, I only see an anonymous hater wailing across the internet.
 

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Care to compare the Jesus you know to the one I know?

I have been asked to do an O P showing my beliefs and have written anutshell view to fill that request.

I was a skeptic till the age of 39. I then had an apotheosis and laterbranded myself an esoteric ecumenist and Gnostic Christian. Gnostic Christianbecause I exemplify this quote from William Blake and that makes me as hated byChristians today as the ancient Gnostics that Constantine had the Christianskill when he bought the Catholic Church.


“Both read the Bible day andnight, But thou read'st black where I read white.”

This refers to how Gnostics tend to reverse, for moral reasons, whatChristians see in the Bible. We tend to recognize the evil ways of the O. T.God where literal Christians will see God’s killing as good.Christians are sheep where Gnostic Christians are goats.

This is perhaps why we see the use of a Jesus scapegoat as immoral,while theists like to make Jesus their beast of burden. An immoral position.

During my apotheosis, something that only lasted 5 or 6 seconds, theonly things of note to happen was that my paradigm of reality was confirmed andI was chastised to think more demographically. What I found was what I call acosmic consciousness. Not a new term but one that is a close but not exact fit.

I recognize that I have no proof. That is always the way withapotheosis.
This is also why I prefer to stick to issues of morality because no onehas yet been able to prove that God is real and I have no more proof than theyfor the cosmic consciousness or what I call; the Godhead.


The cosmic consciousness is not a miracle working God. It does notinterfere with us save when one of us finds it. Not a common thing from what Ican see. It is a part of nature and our next evolutionary step.

I tend to have more in common with atheists who ignore what they see asmy delusion because our morals are basically identical. Theist tend not to likeme much as I have no respect for literalists and fundamentals and think thatmost Christians have exaggerated tribal mentalities and poor morals as theyhave developed a double standard to be able to stomach their God.

I am rather between a rock and a hard place but this I cannot help.

I am happy to be questioned on what I believe but whether or not Godexists is basically irrelevant to this world for all that he does not do, and Iprefer to thrash out moral issues that can actually find an end point. Thesearch for God is never ending when you are of the Gnostic persuasion. Myapotheosis basically says that I am to ignore whatever God I found, God as aset of rules that is, not idol worship it but instead, raise my bar ofexcellence and seek further.

My apotheosis also showed me that God has no need for love, adoration orobedience. He has no needs. Man has dominion here on earth and is to be and isthe supreme being.

Since then, I have tried to collect information that would help any thatbelieve that apotheosis is possible, generally not Christians, --- as they donot believe in the mythical esoteric Jesus that I believe in and churches donot dare teach it.

This first clip gives the theological and philosophical interpretationof what Jesus taught and the second clip show what I think is a closerepresentation of the method that helped me push my apotheosis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbesfXXw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSVl_HOo8Y

Basically, the usual Christian Jesus is their hero and savior while myversion demand that man himself steps up to the plate and save himself.

Which version do you think is more moral and deserving of praise andwhy?

Regards
DL

I really enjoyed reading your post, you have a great argument and I don’t claim to say you’re right or wrong, I just believe there is something there beyond our physical universe, I just don’t claim to know or understand what that something is. I guess that’s why I consider myself agnostic verses atheist, even though I understand and relate with them on certain aspects. I just can’t have faith in nothing, but what I can detect with my five senses. Perhaps that’s because I’m a novel writer in my spare time and have a vivid imagination, I don’t know I just feel that there is something out there, and I do like your impression of the Christian faith, too many are two-faced crooks that use the bible as a crutch for certain actions they take, and then claim it was because God told them to. I really enjoyed reading this, I love fresh perspectives on things like religion and metaphysical things.
 

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............... I really enjoyed reading this, I love fresh perspectives on things like religion and metaphysical things.


Welcome to OTZ, damsmith :)

Gnosticism is really pretty old stuff and I doubt anybody is claiming to be more fundamentalist in that persuasion than GIA, but GIA claiming to be one of the Gods is surely new. ;)
He's merely proselytizing different scripture. He's what you might call, a 'gnostic warrior priest'.

Of interest might be his stance of legalizing recreational drug abuse for children through a prescription model.
If metaphysics relates to things that exist but can't be seen, hallucinogens ought to take up a lot of that free time saved up for vacations. :D

He's also posted that same speech at many other web sites, possibly 100's of other web sites, word for word.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Care to compare the Jesus you know to the one I know?&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs
 
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