tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post6438630906468886664..comments2024-03-28T05:47:54.177+00:00Comments on Philosophical Disquisitions: Morriston on Ethical Criticism of the Bible (Part One)John Danaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761686258507859309noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-49161721043418583982012-02-18T20:03:00.066+00:002012-02-18T20:03:00.066+00:00The Gnostic Christians intuitively (through their ...The Gnostic Christians intuitively (through their personal experience approach to divine enlightenment) saw Yahweh of the Old Testament to be so reprehensible that their belief system incorporated the concept of the Demiurge (a kind of subsidiary creator god that more or less went ethically astray, essentially becoming a tyrant that was into excessive punishment for human weakness, demanding of heinous blood sacrifice, petty and petulant in character, etc., etc.).<br /><br />So a Gnostic view of Mt 11:37 "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him" is that up to the time of Yeshua humanity did not really know the true Father in Heaven. Further, from a Gnostic perspective, Mt 15:24 "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel" has a completely different connotation than the orthodox take in that it is an indication of how deeply mired the Jews are in their relationship to the Demiurge entity, Yahweh. Yeshua, born as a Jew, desired to concentrate on their spiritual emancipation first as they, in a sense, had the most urgent need for spiritual liberation.<br /><br />From the perspective of the 20th and 21st century, now that we know of ancient Summer and Akkad, from the scholarship of such as the O'Briens <a href="http://bit.ly/Auz8to" rel="nofollow">The Shining Ones</a>, there is now a literal underpinning to the Gnostic concept of the Demiurge to be had. Where they came to their realization based on spiritual intuition, we now have a much more concrete basis to see that they were literally correct in his understanding.<br /><br />This article is an introduction to this line of examination: <a href="http://bit.ly/vZXIo7" rel="nofollow">Heiser vs. Sitchin</a>.rogervhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948879489481860570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-56979215220570967782011-09-12T20:15:40.873+01:002011-09-12T20:15:40.873+01:00It is a pleasure to have you back.
YairIt is a pleasure to have you back.<br /><br />Yairיאיר רזקhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15798134654972572485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-14329904652241921472011-09-12T18:17:25.363+01:002011-09-12T18:17:25.363+01:00sqlrob, There are more places in scripture where t...sqlrob, There are more places in scripture where this logic prevails. <br /><br />Another is Jeremiah 19:9. Here God threatens people of a starvation so severe they will resort to eating their own children. The irony is in verse 5. It says they angered him, in part, by building "high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire". That's right, God punished people by forcing them to kill their children - <em>because they killed their children</em>. Why he preferred cannibalism to alter sacrifices is beyond me, except that the sacrifices were to Baal (a god that didn't even really exist).<br /><br />See also Deu 28:53, Lev 26:29, Ezekiel 5:10.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13074560270292195498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-8338867674395806092011-09-12T01:59:55.833+01:002011-09-12T01:59:55.833+01:00So let me get this straight. They had done somethi...So let me get this straight. They had done something morally reprehensible, namely child sacrifice so had to be wiped out. <br /><br />The name Abraham mean anything to these biblical scholars?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com