shaberon
9th April 2016, 02:02
It's something that's kind of touchy because it presupposes some historical facts that could be shocking or offensive to a lot of people. Namely:
The Christians were exterminated by the Church as heretics.
And further:
There was such a person as Jesus and the main difference is, that he was in no way unique--because he was another Gnostic.
There were many Gnostic groups across the area and he was influential to some of them. The whole thing became suppressed and subject to death by the Church. Almost all of the first Christians were Gnostics. The Church erased human knowledge and wrote false doctrines such as Vicarious Atonement. The Church is not the way of Christ nor does it contain his teaching.
The primary survivors are the Mandeans--who had nothing to do with Jesus. These are the followers of John the Baptist. They were harassed out of the Jerusalem area by the seditions prior to the Temple's destruction around year 70 and wound up across the mountains of Iran and the Iraqi lowlands. They are a continuous sect who has never accepted converts.
Pope Pius IX, one of the biggest control freaks ever, was perfectly aware that the Knights Templar went to Jerusalem in order to gain this knowledge of the "Johannite heresy" This is why they had to be exterminated as well. They were an anti-church vessel from the start. They could have exposed it.
Church is not scripturally based. In English the word "church" was inserted into the Bible over a hundred times. Church is the translation of kyriakos, signifying a house of a lord such as a building or institution. This was stamped in place of "ecclesia", which has to do with a self-governing body. It's a completely different kind of activity, done by people who go out in the street to help the needy.
This historical perspective would also suggest that tracking down Jesus personally or the Templars won't really affect much because--the case is this simple. The thing is, I find it pretty hard to argue against. Gnosticism as a whole telling the background of the Church, instead of comparing the details of their systems which are all slightly different.
The Christians were exterminated by the Church as heretics.
And further:
There was such a person as Jesus and the main difference is, that he was in no way unique--because he was another Gnostic.
There were many Gnostic groups across the area and he was influential to some of them. The whole thing became suppressed and subject to death by the Church. Almost all of the first Christians were Gnostics. The Church erased human knowledge and wrote false doctrines such as Vicarious Atonement. The Church is not the way of Christ nor does it contain his teaching.
The primary survivors are the Mandeans--who had nothing to do with Jesus. These are the followers of John the Baptist. They were harassed out of the Jerusalem area by the seditions prior to the Temple's destruction around year 70 and wound up across the mountains of Iran and the Iraqi lowlands. They are a continuous sect who has never accepted converts.
Pope Pius IX, one of the biggest control freaks ever, was perfectly aware that the Knights Templar went to Jerusalem in order to gain this knowledge of the "Johannite heresy" This is why they had to be exterminated as well. They were an anti-church vessel from the start. They could have exposed it.
Church is not scripturally based. In English the word "church" was inserted into the Bible over a hundred times. Church is the translation of kyriakos, signifying a house of a lord such as a building or institution. This was stamped in place of "ecclesia", which has to do with a self-governing body. It's a completely different kind of activity, done by people who go out in the street to help the needy.
This historical perspective would also suggest that tracking down Jesus personally or the Templars won't really affect much because--the case is this simple. The thing is, I find it pretty hard to argue against. Gnosticism as a whole telling the background of the Church, instead of comparing the details of their systems which are all slightly different.