I have no taboos about discussing anything. The connection youare making I did not make for my brand of Gnosticism. You will know that thereare as many Gnostic sects as there are Christians one. Some go to more esotericpractices and some not. This sexual connection I had no information on and wasnot even mentioned by Elaine Pagels work which is what educated me on my brandof Gnosticism.
It does not surprise me thought because all religions fromwhat I can see came out of pagan sects and they were also all over the map interms of rituals.
Regards
DL
I have no taboos about discussing anything
I know......you merely deny, avoid or spin.
The connection youare making I did not make for my brand of Gnosticism.
You ought to check your posts closer.......you do apparently focus on the sexuality of all but your own beliefs which you have stated before, you intend to avoid.
The absence of comparison leaves much to imagine, especially when you treat your own position as a taboo subject that you deny as being off limits........after putting it off limits.
That sounds like the ultimate of cherry picking :eek
You will know that thereare as many Gnostic sects as there are Christians one.
But gnostics that are Christian isn't on any list I've seen and the terms together create a contradiction when your beliefs are considered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian
The description below of a Christian is not you in any twisted sense.
A Christian (About this sound pronunciation (help·info), (from the Ancient Greek: Χριστιανός Christianos) is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament. "Christian" derives from the Koine Greek word Christ, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term Messiah.[1]
Central to the Christian faith is the gospel, the teaching that humans have hope for salvation through the message and work of Jesus, and particularly, his atoning death on the cross. Christians also believe Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.[2] Most Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity ("tri-unity"), a description of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This includes the vast majority of churches in Christianity, although a minority are Non-trinitarians.
GIA.......as a gnostic christian, you are the definition of non sequitur. None of your logic follows. It's designed as an attack weapon rather than a search for truth and enlightenment.
Cripes, GIA.......read what you post......it's mostly sophistry and contextual abuse.
Plus.......the 'literature' that is called the Nag Hammadi Library is mostly uncredited speculation written centuries after the death of Christ by unknown authors with unknown associations to the origin of claims made.
You like to mock the Holy Bible, but you actually worship the imaginations of mostly unknown authors that have no credible standing.
Fine........but when you claim logic and use fantasy for fact.......you're the same type of hypocrite as the Fundamentalist that defines Genesis as a scientific explanation for creation.
I will say your brand of hypocrisy is a lot more amusing, but that may be from only recently experiencing it.
Where the Fundamentalist is too often trying to destroy the educational process, you're off in a corner discussing the rubbing together of sex parts
It does not surprise me thought because all religions fromwhat I can see came out of pagan sects and they were also all over the map interms of rituals.
It's reasonable to consider that religion would evolve as man's intellect matured.........but that's not supportive of your embracing concepts and ideas that have long been superceeded.
Intellect is evolving and you've been left to contemplate your own extinction.
