RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
September 24, 2020 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2020 at 9:15 am by GrandizerII.)
(September 23, 2020 at 5:35 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: We are universalists and do not discriminate against gays and women without a just cause the way Christians do.
There are quite a number of otherwise "mainstream" Christians who are universalists and/or do not discriminate against gay people and women.
Example of "mainstream" Christian universalists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_...iversalism
Quote:We do not idol worship as Christians do.
Plenty of "mainstream" Christians out there who don't pray to icons or statues or saints.
Quote:We never used inquisitions.
Historically, "you" never had the power to carry these out. And plenty of "mainstream" Christians have condemned these acts.
Quote:We have never embraced a genocidal Yahweh and named him a demiurge.
Plenty of "mainstream" Christians who don't embrace a genocidal Yahweh as literally depicted in the OT.
Quote:We never claim to be the only way to enlightenment or believed that a true god would condemn his creation unjustly like Yahweh did.
If you say so. I remember having a rather different impression based on my own reading, but what do I know.
Quote:We also never bought into Jesus dying for our sins as his asking us to ride a scapegoat and abdicate our responsibility for our actions is completely immoral.
Or an act of divine grace (per their theology).
Nevertheless, as Bel pointed out, Gnostics come in various shapes and sizes, and it's the same with "non-Gnostic" Christians.
