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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: spud]
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spud said:
The gospel of Thomas is amazing.


have you read Mary or James gospels, not the james alerady included


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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No, not yet. I'm starting a book which gives it context though. I don't think reading such scripture alone is very wise. It's always best when included with context.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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So what's the deal with The Gospel of Thomas. I read up on it on wikipedia.

Is this suposed to be some "lost book" of the Bible or something?

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: VoidOfsPg]
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The entire Nag Hammadi library is composed of "lost books". This isn't disputed by anyone.

What is disputed, however, is it's importance. Most every fundamentalist, literal Christian despises the Nag Hammadi library.

Through the Gospel of Thomas, one could even draw parallels between Buddha and Christ. It's pretty interesting.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: spud]
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Ohhh, this is very interesting...

I need to read further into it.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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you christians are sick
your weak weak people that give in to a mass dilusion to help you get through your day
mentally your some of hte laziest people on earth

not just christians either...all of you religion subscribers have fat little useless minds


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Floyd_]
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I guess there has to be like a 3:12 ignorant statement ratio in here.

Thank you for raising the bar.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: spud]
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spud said:
No, not yet. I'm starting a book which gives it context though. I don't think reading such scripture alone is very wise. It's always best when included with context.


interesting views of that apocrypha, I recomend reading all that you can find that is related, for understanding as well as the other viewpoint, there are similarities to a few of the canonized texts but some serious differences


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: TrauM]
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There is one reason to be a Christian.. SO you can fight guys like this creep.




Of course this sort of Christianity has it's uses.. Killing.


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Floyd_]
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Floyd_ said:
you christians are sick
your weak weak people that give in to a mass dilusion to help you get through your day
mentally your some of hte laziest people on earth

not just christians either...all of you religion subscribers have fat little useless minds


As opposed to your brilliant mind? Nice try, rainman. You give us atheists a bad name.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Floyd_]
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Floyd_ said:
you christians are sick



firstly, I'm not a christian, second... no they arent


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your weak weak people that give in to a mass dilusion to help you get through your day mentally your some of hte laziest people on earth


also untrue

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not just christians either...all of you religion subscribers have fat little useless minds


wanna hear the real story of the origin of man? nothing to do with adam and
eve, or their dozens of kids begating like rabbits all over the place.
I bet you dont, I doubt you could handle the truth.


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: lwo]
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spud-

could you recommend any good books pertaining to the Gospel of Thomas and/or the Nag Hammadi library??


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
I bet you dont, I doubt you could handle the truth.


Enlighten us oh wise one. Though, I can handle this hard rock cafe here in my bayou..


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Redstorm]
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Redstorm said:
Nice try, rainman. You give us atheists a bad name.


Normally it's the atheists that give them a bad name


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: lwo]
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lwo said:
Prisoner#1 said:
I bet you dont, I doubt you could handle the truth.


Enlighten us oh wise one. Though, I can handle this hard rock cafe here in my bayou..


not likely and you dont appear to be floyd


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Redstorm]
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i don't understand how i can give anyone a bad name

the simple fact is that during our evolution, one of the things that helped us survive was a sense of religious belief. Now thats all good and great and it gets people through the day. But in the end its a belief, and there is no need to be politically correct about it. There can be stupid people in this world, and i am saying that religious people are certainly stupid. Now you can take that to mean that genetically they are incapable of brainpower, or you can take it to mean they grew up in an environment without access to critical thought. Either way they are stupid. They lack critical thought. I'm no in anyway suggesting that religious teachings like loving your neighbor arn't important. What i'm suggesting is you don't need to subscribe to a religion and start reading some 2000 year old book to tell you what is morally acceptable or not.


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Floyd_]
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Some of our gretest philosophers and scientists were Christians. Even Darwin was religious.

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: lwo]
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Does anyone know why these codex are part of the New Testament apocrypha? If there has been no dispute, why wasn't it written in the Bible?

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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: VoidOfsPg]
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many were discovered over the last 600 years


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Re: Becoming Christian? [Re: Schwip]
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Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing by Stephan A. Hoeller

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Great starting points.

The Nag Hammadi literature is often referred to as Gnostic scripture, pertaining to the religion of Gnosticism.

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