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The Gospel of Thomas

>>5277162
Luke. Love the precision.

Q gospel

>>5277171
I SAID NO GNOSTIC HERESY

>>5277184
best answer

John.

You can't write a better opening than John 1.

>>5277171
Gonna have to go with this or Judas.

>>5277162
John

Philippians 4:8 KJV

Iwannhs

>>5277779
Gen 3:15

Gospel of Yeezus

Luke, but Thomas if we did allow gnostic heresy.

John, but Thomas is GOAT:

>>Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the domain of Heaven."

>>5277162
The "gnostics" are NOT heresies.

They're all heresy if you take any of them to be one.
OR
Only ONE of them is accurate. Ah, but which one? You'll never know.

>>5278070
Gnostics are heretics who deny the Law and think themselves above its creed, "through grace" and invert the creation mythos in favor of serpent, while vilifying the creator and fashioner of the Kosmos as "evil".


>If you [the gnostics] believe this world a prison then you could at any moment free yourselves by committing suicide. ~ Plotinus

>>5278158
Damn dude. The gnostics are super deep. I remember my momentary fascination with them when I turned 18 and wasn't being forced to attend church and go to Protestant school. Didn't amount to much more than reading the Gospel of Thomas and a few wikipedia articles. Still, it was a fun way to complicate my view of Christianity as this tightly agreed upon thing.

My favorite gospel is John. I like how he calls himself "the disciple who Jesus loved". It amuses me. And as others have noted, it has a great opening.

Matthew is pretty good too, if I remember correctly. I think Mark was my least favorite. Nothing too special about it, I think.

>>5278158
There is no "the Law" There are a multitude of opinions, not just in Christian laws.
They simply tried to make sense of that Hebrew mess that was getting mashed together with the new cult of Christ BS.

>love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

Did that get edited out of the bible or something? So weird to hear it like that. I always thought it was:

"anyone who disagrees with you or doesn't follow your creed is your enemy and you must persecute them from the pulpit and office and destroy their cities and subjugate or otherwise exploit their lands or else the (communists/terrorists/heathens) win." - Jesus.

Judas

>>5277171
Fuck you dude he said no heresy I'm drunk as fuck and you're gonna go to hell bitch!!!'nnnnnnnnnnm

>>5278220
-> >>5278070
They are all heresy. OR all but one are heresy.

>>5278176
"the Law" is Natural Law and is present (by its nature, heh) in every successful civilization in recorded history (in analogous forms)

Of course certain pagan matriarchal and anarchic tribal configurations existed in obscure corners of history, but largely festering in their own filth

>Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

>>5278214
Wow, what an insightful and original observation. And they say our generation has no geniuses.

I'm not much of a religious person, but I like to read the bible. For some reason, I really like Tobit.

>>5278214
Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Luke. John is the worst.

>>5278266
>Spits
Demonic filth plucked from degenerate minds.
Go back to the middle east, cultist.

>>5277162
Thomas.

Luke.

>>5278070

Gnosticism is not christian because it denies a very simple fact that all christians accept. Namely, that God died on the cross. Gnostics missed the inherent joke and ridiculousness of christianity and unstead retreated to a pessimistic, neo-platonic mysticism.

Fucking captcha approves of this thread.

>>5277950
Thomas isn't gnostic, its anti-Pauline, but it isn't gnostic.

>>5278283

someone has to say it. What jesus was alleged to have said is in complete contradiction to the behavior of the majority of christians. It's obscenely obvious. How do you reconcile going to church and believing that the bible is sacred with all the violence and terror and bigotry that going to church and believing the bible is sacred has caused? If OP hadn't used that pic when he started this thread I would have probably ignored it like I usually do with bibel threads. I guess I feel aversion to christianity and don't want /lit/ to become some sort of christian version of r/atheism. Plus I can post wherever I want. "But it's literature related!" If talking about the bible on 4chan is literature related how come there's never any threads about all the other religious literature and just a bunch of christfag threads? It's like when ASOIAF was big.

>>5278382
It's as Christian as the rest of it, and only considered heresy for its losing out to the other heresies. There is no one interpretable church and there never will be.

>>5278448
Want to talk about Gateless gate? We do about FOUR TIMES A WEEK.

Hindic threads are commonplace.

Journey to the West gets cracked once a month.

>>5278411
Fuck paul.

>>5278231
All but synoptics + John are heresy.

PUMP PUMP PUMP THE MICHIGAN

I'm interested in learning about Gnosticism.

What should I start with? Should I just dive right in and start reading the Nag Hammadi scriptures, or what?

> adolescents actually thinking Gnosticism is cool without having read any of the scriptures

goddamn this is the epitome of a Stop Liking What I don't Like thread

>>5279040
Most adolescents don't realise non-canonical != heresy != gnosticism

>>5279098
Religion, and the wars fought over them, in a nutshell.

Austin 3:16

>>5280604
Nothing means nothing, nothing means nothing, but I'm the cream.

https://i.4cdn.org/f/The%20Cream%20of%20the%20Crop.swf

>>5278158

Gnostics believe in reincarnation if gnosis is not reached.

Matthew > John > Luke > Mark