Jesus as Lord - why is this appealing to so many?

[John V]

Ah, the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks  approach.

Maybe you guys are indeed descended from chimps. 

[The Grand Nudger]

Tell Il Douche to send better diplomats?  Are we to be held accountable for your ineptitude?  Is that another one of the things this benevolent dictator saw and thought was good?

[vulcanlogician]

(114) Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html

Thanks for sharing. The Gospel of Thomas is quite an interesting read. I wonder what the Christians think of it.

[Amarok]

Yup the Christian god sucks at being persuasive

[John V]

Thanks for sharing. The Gospel of Thomas is quite an interesting read. I wonder what the Christians think of it.

Why would Thomas have secret sayings of Jesus? He wasn't exactly in the inner circle.

[vulcanlogician]

Thanks for sharing. The Gospel of Thomas is quite an interesting read. I wonder what the Christians think of it.

Why would Thomas have secret sayings of Jesus? He wasn't exactly in the inner circle.

Seriously, have you read it? It's pretty puzzling. Also, some of the sayings seem to be rudimentary versions of the stuff found in the Sermon on the Mount/Plain. I wasn't commenting on the "credibility" of the document. To me, canonicity does little to make one text more credible than another. I merely found it interesting, and said as much.

[Whateverist]

Ah, the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks  approach.

Maybe you guys are indeed descended from chimps. 

I resent that remark.  "Descended from" my ass, I am a species in good standing with the whole chimp family.  Nothing wrong with that either.

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(114) Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html

Thanks for sharing. The Gospel of Thomas is quite an interesting read. I wonder what the Christians think of it.

So instead of discriminating against them conservatives should be encouraging their daughters toward becoming transgender.

[The Grand Nudger]

Why would Thomas have secret sayings of Jesus? He wasn't exactly in the inner circle.

Let's ask "paul".

[Amarok]

Ah, the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks  approach.

Maybe you guys are indeed descended from chimps.  

No it's just you performing the head up your ass approach.

But then again your gods an asshole so i guess that makes sense .

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Oh and of course only people Beta likes among his magic authors count . But again that par for the course with creationist tools.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Maybe they read the Old Testament.

If so, they skipped over a lot, like a good bit of Psalms.

Psalms is loaded with hateful verses.

Psalms 2:12 (NLT) = "Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry,
    and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities—
for his anger flares up in an instant.
    But what joy for all who take refuge in him!"

IOW, kiss the homicidal maniac's butt or he will kill you.

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Were you expecting a serious answer from a person who concedes that earthly tyrants are bad, but that their benevolent god can't stand the presence of a person who puts the bad touch on his own dick?  God does what god wants, and that includes seizures.  That sinner probably shook it one too many times after he took a piss.  

The seizure and the car crash, just the beginning.  That's nothing compared to the eternity he'll spend in hell.

According to the Babylonian Tamud, Tractate Niddah, Folio 13A Chapter 2, If a guy holds his penis while urinating it's like he flooded the entire world.  So yes, he is a sinner if he shakes it.  And if you get any piss on your feet you are wicked and your children are illegitimate.  God is a real meanie.

"[Reverting to] the main text: 'R. Eliezer said, Whoever holds his membrum when he makes water is as though he had brought a flood on the world'. But, they said to R. Eliezer, would not the spray bespatter his feet and he would appear to be maimed in his privy parts so that he25  would be the cause of casting upon his children the reflection of being illegitimate? — It is preferable, he answered them, that a man should be the cause of casting upon his children the reflection of being illegitimate than that he should make himself a wicked man, even for a while, before the Omnipresent. Another [Baraitha] taught: R. Eliezer replied to the Sages. It is possible for a man to stand on a raised spot and to make water or to make water in loose earth and thus to avoid making himself wicked, even for a while, before the Omnipresent."
http://www.come-and-hear.com/niddah/niddah_13.html

Note: the numbers in the passage are footnotes.