Dirty_Jerz
Ethiop
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what about all the people with positive/optimistic mindstates that are butt ugly, broke and can't get no hoes?
The universe is listening to his positive thoughts and going
That's my dude.diving deeep once again
I started reading all the books of the Apocrypha. Needless to say gnosticism, reincarnation, wisdom literature and more were hallmarks of early Christianity (before it became centralized and edited in the version we have today). This early or gnostic Christianity has some things in common with Buddhism, Daoism and general spirituality as well. You have to ask yourself, "Why weren't those books included?" The more I read the Apocrypha, the more I realize how different Christianity would be if there were no councils deciding what the "gospel" should be.
Discover the truth. Dig deep and don't stop until you get there. The revolution is now.
The Apocrypha is included in Catholic Bibles and all early KJV editions. Protestants removed the Apocrypha (during the Protestant Reformation) cause they doubted the sources of the Roman Catholic Church.
And in the bible specifically it spoke about not getting caught up in the endless debates of the Greeks (philosophers, gnostics), thereby missing the mark on what the Light of the doctrine is supposed to be.
Not ragging on you breh, just saying youre going off quite a few faulty premises.
No offense to you, but I always get a reply like yours when I talk about this. I'm reading books not included in the Catholic bible. I know the Catholic bible quite well - many of family are Catholics. Some of the books were written as early as the first century. There was a special a few years about about "The Gospel of Judas" (2nd century writing) and I've read that and my book contains writings from the mid-late 1st century (even earlier writings). Not all the gnostic texts are of Greek origin, nor was the original language of all these texts Greek. So even if Greek philosophy or potential sophistry is a point of concern, it all cannot be classified as such.
You referred to the Apocrypha and thats what I replied to. What youre referring to here is the Pseudepiggrapha.
But anyway im well aware that not all of the texts are originally Greek, but they do have the same root. It was a offshoot sect budding at that time parallel to early Christianity that rooted itself more into gnosticism/philisophy rather than the idea of a God. Yes, the writings between the bible and the gnostics are pretty much the same, but ultimately, they are different.
Im not saying youre right or wrong in your personal beliefs but what im saying is that you cannot completely syncretize the two because the bottom line of each doctrine is ultimately different.
I started reading all the books of the Apocrypha. Needless to say gnosticism, reincarnation, wisdom literature and more were hallmarks of early Christianity (before it became centralized and edited in the version we have today). This early or gnostic Christianity has some things in common with Buddhism, Daoism and general spirituality as well. You have to ask yourself, "Why weren't those books included?" The more I read the Apocrypha, the more I realize how different Christianity would be if there were no councils deciding what the "gospel" should be.
Discover the truth. Dig deep and don't stop until you get there. The revolution is now.
Any book or video recommendations? Hermeticism? Sacred geometry ? Binaural energy?