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Jesus' teachings
    #5593471 - 05/05/06 10:26 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Is there an undiluted account of Jesus' teachings? That is, an account of his teachings that hasn't been warped by others.

I'd like to know what the real Jesus' ideaologies were. I heard he never said anything about an afterlife and that was an invention of people after him warping his message. I mean, did he think he was the son of God or is that an invention of somebody else too?

It may be fruitful to ask because I'm sure most of the accounts of Jesus' life and teachings have been destroyed if they didn't conform to the church's decided acount of his message.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5593489 - 05/05/06 10:31 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

It doesn't get any better than the gospels I think. I don't trust the gospels. Catholics believe the holy spirit inspired the authors of the truth, since none of them actually knew Jesus personally. Far fetched.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5593583 - 05/05/06 10:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Like RedNucleus said, none of the gospel writers knew Jesus personally. However, you can get a general picture of what he was like by reading as many of these accounts as possible. I personally recommend reading some of the apocryphal gospels(ones that were left out of the Bible) as well. I especially recommend the Gospel of Thomas, as it is one of the earliest gospels written, and is composed entirely of the sayings of Jesus(no narrative or miracles in it).

Basically, the earliest gospels written seem to be the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mark, and the theoretical "Q source," which Matthew and Luke both seem to have used as a reference.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: Silversoul]
    #5593629 - 05/05/06 11:01 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

thanks for recommending


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5593650 - 05/05/06 11:07 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Most so called Christians don't follow Jesus' teachings, they still stick to the Old Testament.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: downforpot]
    #5593664 - 05/05/06 11:10 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

What sects do this? Christ isn't in the old testament so I have a hard time believing that anyone could worship Christ without any sort of religious doctrine on him. Certainly not most, as you say. If it were most, then the bible would be a less popular book than the book you suggest, which contains only the old testament.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5594132 - 05/05/06 01:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

there is no pure account of his teachings.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5595232 - 05/05/06 06:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I recommend two books that will clarify the complex answer to your question. Yes, it requires at least two books to supply a sufficient answer.

The first book is Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes by Re. John Shelby Spong. The second book is The Jesus Mysteries by Gandy and Freke.

Spong will show you how, when, where and why the books that ended up in the canonical Bible did so, and Gandy and Freke will show you how the "Literalist" interpretation of the scriptures was arranged and pushed by Emperor Constantine instead of the competing Gnostic interpretation, which has much in common with most of the other world religions. The Literalist interpretation is contradictory and absurd (which is why Tertullian said "I believe because it is absurd"), and is why Literalist Christianity is so frequently rejected by those who have had mystical entheogenic experiences and have, like Neo in 'The Matrix,' begun to awaken from the illusions, delusions and falsehoods that have passed for Christianity for so long. It is not that the myths are wrong, it is that the myths are treated as though they are historical events. This is why I chose Christianity over other faiths, and as it turns out, it is the Big Lie that organized Christianity has used as their claim for uniqueness and religious imperialism.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #5595280 - 05/05/06 06:54 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Is there an undiluted account of Jesus' teachings?

Yes, it is called the Bible.

PS
Gnosticism is the big lie. It is calling all those that testified that Jesus actually existed LIARS. This teaching comes from the bowels of hell.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: fivepointer]
    #5595296 - 05/05/06 06:58 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

bowels of hell.:rofl2:


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: fivepointer]
    #5595312 - 05/05/06 07:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Quote:

Is there an undiluted account of Jesus' teachings?




Yes, it is called the Bible.




amazing how that works, huh?

Quote:

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Gnosticism is the big lie. It is calling all those that testified that Jesus actually existed LIARS. This teaching comes from the bowels of hell.




with an argument like that, you make it hard to refute.. but I will mention that none of the accepted gospels were actually from the same time as Jesus, and were in fact all much after him.  So in that sense, yes anyone who testified Jesus actually lived, without knowing this as a fact themselves, are liars, for lack of a better word (and since you used it first ;p )

mark, thanks for the suggestions, they are in queue on amazon  :grin:


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: kotik]
    #5595346 - 05/05/06 07:07 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

also.. mark:

wondering if you've come across The Laughing Jesus : Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy

or if you may be able to offer some good intro material


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5595486 - 05/05/06 07:45 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

With prayer and the gospels you will find your answers. The spirit of Jesus can only be found in prayer. A friendship begins and ends with communication.............prayer. A true friend will share the truth in the word. The wisdom of Christ can only be found through prayer and the word. The mind of Christ is right there waiting for you.

Go ahead everybody tear that apart I know you will........


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: Fucknuckle]
    #5595637 - 05/05/06 08:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

lets just say im not interested right now at knowing the spirit of jesus, but very interested in his teachings, and the teachings of many others.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: fivepointer]
    #5595898 - 05/05/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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fivepointer said:
Is there an undiluted account of Jesus' teachings?

Yes, it is called the Bible.

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Gnosticism is the big lie. It is calling all those that testified that Jesus actually existed LIARS. This teaching comes from the bowels of hell.




I don't know why you're so uppity about Gnosticism. Gnosticism is merely the 'science' behind the Myth. Through the Myth we come to fathom the nature of Spirit (faith). Through gnosis we came to know the metaphysical structure and reality of Spirit. Myth establishes the Pure Idea, the Reality of Spirit. Gnosticism again merely investigates the Myth.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: fivepointer]
    #5596011 - 05/05/06 10:13 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

YOU seem to come from the bowels. You're full of s**t, plain and simple, with emphasis on simple.


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5596025 - 05/05/06 10:17 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

the tao teh ching


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: fivepointer]
    #5596029 - 05/05/06 10:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Gnosticism is the big lie. It is calling all those that testified that Jesus actually existed LIARS. This teaching comes from the bowels of hell.




you sir, are wrong


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: kotik]
    #5597013 - 05/06/06 06:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Yes, I read The Laughing Jesus as well as Jesus and the Lost Goddess. I have not swallowed all of it hook-line-and-sinker, but their books supply a current day approach to the Gnostic interpretation and use of scriptures which can actually aid a fellow human being in one's personal transcendence and transformation into Christ. This is over and against the uselessness of traditional 'Christian' doctrine which yields little more than childish, superstitious, brainwashed bigots who believe that only THEIR myths are salvific. Forget antisemitism for a nanosecond - the so-called 'Christians' spend their lives in the illegitimate mode of condemning all humans to Hell - AS IF they are in a position to make such a Judgement - including others who call themselves Christians.

I leave all the well-intentioned folk to their own degree and capacity for understanding the myths. I would not speak down to a mentally handicapped person either, bless their hearts. It is, after all, about Heart, not Head, Compassion, not intellect. But a fundamentalist who attacks me with their old Constantine-spawned, Church Father distorted excuse for a useful theology is barking up the wrong tree. From the Inquisitioner to the Klansman, these ass****s are anything but Compassionate and have nothing of the nature of Christ about them. They are so fearful of the possibility that they might be wrong, that they HATE anyone who causes them to question their own assumptions they they call 'faith.' Such 'faith' in lies should be consigned to the graves of historical error.

Christ is in the Taoist upon whose shoulder the wild birds land in fearlessness. Christ is in the Yogi whose heel a cobra does not strike because their is no enmity in that being to cause fear in the reptile. Christ is in the Jewish rabbi who teaches the same things that young Y'shua learned from other rabbis two millennia ago, and Christ is in us to the extent that we act Compassionately, that we heal, not hurt others, and that we teach others to do likewise because we are all under Almighty GOD who beats the drum of our hearts, enlivening each one of us moment-to-moment.

And to YOU bigots and haters, one and all - wolves in sheep's clothing - pontificating like wind-up dolls on scriptures that you have little to no comprehension of: A curse upon your hate and upon your kind. Stay thou away from these young seekers after Truth who must negotiate the icebergs of ancient frozen LIES in this Ocean of Existence - LIES from HATERS who claim a holiness that they in no wise embody. What little YOU have will be taken from you in the end. Better a millstone be hung around YOUR necks, and YOU tossed into the sea than to 'assume' the Godly role of the condemnation and judgement of young seekers. Get thee behind me Satan! +++Amen+++


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Re: Jesus' teachings [Re: TODAY]
    #5597037 - 05/06/06 06:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Jesus was a orthodox hebrew it says (some where in the back) "I have not come to change one word of the law" so this makes hime orthodox, he did not claim to be god, which would make him a heretic, but he was a zelot which made him in the eyes of the romans a revolutionary and a terrorist. To cut a long story short. The romans couldn't suppress the cult although they tried for a couple of hundred years, so they co-opted it and as was the roman habit they made him a god - read up on the council of Nicea for a rundown on this. there followed several centuries of book burning and cult suppresion (this resulted in the dark ages when much of the worlds accumulated knowledge was lost - thanks to the early church). There are some traces of the gnostic teachings of Jesus remaining in the new testament but you have to dig deeply to find them. One of the many theories is that it was a drug cult who's aim was to re-establish the ancient kingdom of Israel by any means. This dream was ultimately crushed at Masada. there has been some very interesting work done on the bible by philologists, most notably John M Allegro, an australian scholar who worked on the dead sea scrolls. Just remember, as it says in the good book, seek and you shall find.


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