(November 20, 2017 at 12:51 pm)Greatest I am Wrote:(November 20, 2017 at 12:26 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Well that is interesting. So my next probing question would like to flesh out the nature of the experience you have in mind here where I've bolded:
"Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."
I wonder whether you're expecting something wooey/supernatural or if you interpret it figuratively as alluding to something a zen buddhist might describe as satori. Or maybe you have something psychological in mind like Jung's integration?
There are no supernatural beliefs in Gnostic Christianity.
Jesus was just 2,000 years ahead of Jung and Freud and their version of Father Complex.
I see Christianity as having corrupted their earlier and brighter thinking.
If you have a look at Michelangelo's creation painting, you will see God sitting in a background or the right hemisphere of a brain.
While at the Vatican you will also note that their largest sculpture is that of the pineal gland which the ancients saw as what would activate the right hemisphere of our brains. The Egyptian eye is also a representation of our right hemisphere.
The Jesus I quoted and his referring to our single eye is obviously saying that any God we can know is within our own minds. There are as many Gods as there are people.
You follow and ideal and are your own master.
That is what a Gnostic Christian does but calls that ideal God.
Atheists are opening what they are calling churches but are not wanting to accept the word God as the ideal which they seek within those churches.
I do not see that as a bright move and if I was an atheist, I would just call God of science or some such thing.
The religious usurped the God word from man and man has to usurp it back to show the religions for the usurpers they are.
Atheists cannot beat the church system because of our tribal nature but atheists can beat religions at their own game.
The sooner you atheist smarten up and fight the right way for your cause, the better.
Regards
DL
Well thanks for the advice but I'm not really fighting anybody here. I wonder why you've moved the 'battle' from the psychological to the political. Don't you worry at all that your broad sweeping assumptions about what a "religious usurper" or an "atheist" is might be a little simplistic?
I like it better when you are disclosive about what you think because you're just some guy trying to figure it out, without donning your imperious gnostic christian crown, but to each his own.
Here is a youtube about the brain I think you'd enjoy. You might already know it.
