RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 9, 2015 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 6:14 pm by watchamadoodle.)
Here is a quote from Ephesians which dates 80 CE to 100 CE and is Paulian. Notice how gnostic this sounds. I don't have time to find them now, but the parables of Jesus sound very gnostic to me - even the idea that the meaning is hidden from most listeners.
EDIT: My take on gnostic theology: eternal spiritual beings fall from heaven and are entrapped in material human bodies. Salvation comes from waking up and remembering that we are not physical beings and don't belong here. Christ descended deliberately into human form to wake us up, so that we can go follow him home to heaven where we belong.
So doesn't this sound gnostic?
Ephesians 5:14
EDIT: My take on gnostic theology: eternal spiritual beings fall from heaven and are entrapped in material human bodies. Salvation comes from waking up and remembering that we are not physical beings and don't belong here. Christ descended deliberately into human form to wake us up, so that we can go follow him home to heaven where we belong.
So doesn't this sound gnostic?
Ephesians 5:14
Quote:Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...s-asv.html