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Your arguments are consistent and reasonable. I find value in them. Each one passes this way. It feels like despair...weariness. But what else would induce one to question the valueless? What else could motivate a search for value? The contented are not likely to take stock of their...

Excellent! Now you are really catching on to the power of denial. Don't forget, I also did not exist at the time of my birth and early life as Jesus. There isn't much evidence for this, but believe me, if I existed I would tell you so. Jesus:D

Well, yah, if you want to get technical. God-made-human is impossible. Man-made-divine is also impossible. It is possible, however, to "die" to the concept of personhood that Godhood may replace it, taking it's rightful place in your mind. This requires an understanding: Man does not...

After the purge, scholars couldn't locate the sayings gospel of Thomas until 1945 because it was buried along with gnostic literature. The emerging heirarchy considered it outside christian scriptures, dangerous to it's validity, and subsequently blacklisted. Burial saved it, only to rise...

Could a man who informed men of their valuelessness have value? If so, how? Or, if not, why not?

If it did, would such a God likely be popular among men?

Yes, the belief in a certain type of god does tend to make man central. The god-of-this-world god is just such a god. This is the god who makes man, and makes him king and/or karetaker of kreation. Most believers believe in this type of god. The derivative benefits are logical. It...

Shoeshineboy is not ignoring me. He just hasn't disagreed. Jesus:D

Regarding independent evidence, Elaine has become the world's foremost authority on the gospel of Thomas...other than the actual author. Jesus

Discuss. Jesus:D

The truth runs contrary to firmly established "reality". For example, the world is not real at all. The Pope recently put out a book on me, borrowing quite a bit from these gospels. Certainly, he believes they are faithful accounts. Unfortunately, they are not able to help him understand...

Of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, only Mark met me, as a little child. So yes, the practice of presenting hear-say as original was wide-spread. The idea was to lend the information authority by association. Paul lends himself quite alot of this kind of authority with the help of the scribe of...

Yes, sure enough. The question then becomes, 'how can I tell the difference?'. Dunn is correct. The 'sermon' is a conglomeration of quotations ascribed to one event. As I've said before, the earliest sayings gospels were made into novels fitting the prevailant theology [pop gospel] at the...

Thomas walked with me and quoted/mentions me extensively. Why is his witness not in the 'official' cannon? Why did someone think to bury it in order to protect it? The fact is, there was a purge by an increasingly authoritarian ecclesiastical heirarchy. Early documentation was as valuable...

Peace be with you. There is no peace in the world, because it was made out of conflict in the mind, which has been expressed as physical violence. This expression cannot be "fixed" because the world stands upon a false foundation of a hypothetically split mind. This is the "house divided...

Well, yes, if you want to get technical. Technically, there is no need for a savior because there is no such thing as guilt, relative to reality. I "take away the sins of the world" simply by telling you that. However, "Adam" did not believe himself to be guiltless and condemned himself on...

People were subject to information overload then as they are today. If there is not a keen interest in something, it is not necessarily going to register. Can you name, without googling, the sitting president of Greece or Italy, or Israel for that matter? Can you name the "star" actors...

What makes you think men were different then than they are now? For example: Herod, Harold...what is the difference?

Ha! The world is a fanatical myth. Everytime a kid eats *Lucky Charms*, a myth is shoved down his throat. Everytime a child looks in the mirror, he/she is being lied to relative to identity. The lie is reinforced around the clock by "mother" and "father". In other words, by the *time* you...

The term "religion" has become synonymous with "sin", the way I have defined it. It is often the unrepentant denial of reality in the name of God...full of insane notions taken way too seriously. Not all who say, "Lord, lord..." will understand the truth because they may not yet be...