friedmacguffins wrote:
Do you believe that Lucifer, or some version of him, is the god of gnosticism? Is this what you mean to portray with the snake?
Luciferians are saying that they pit both sides of every major conflict against eachother.
You are saying, why do we select warrior gods.
I hold no supernatural beliefs. I have put away the things of children.
In a sense, we are quite close to Karaite Jews and Buddhists. Both those creeds place man above God as they know that all the Gods are manmade.
Modern Gnostic Christians use the name I am for the God we follow, and as free thinkers, we mean ourselves. We never give up our responsibility to guide ourselves to any invisible guy in the sky.
We seek the good within ourselves and use some of the teachings of Jesus to help us seek Gnosis.
Here are a part of those teachings.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 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.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
If you have the time. is first link speaks of this in depth. The other is history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbes ... r_embeddedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR02cia ... =PLCBF574DTo your --- "Luciferians are saying that they pit both sides of every major conflict against each other.
That seem like a good way to reach a conclusion for any issue. It would help people to get past their personal biases.
Gnostic say it this way.
Said of Gnostic Christian versus Christian bible reading practices.
“Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.”
William Blake.
I would take this further and advise you to read any scriptures from as many POV as is within you. Question everything including yourself.
The bible, if read as a book of wisdom, does have much wisdom though.
You just have to read it the way Gnostics do and revers a lot of the Christian morals.
Christians call evil good while Gnostic Christians call evil, evil.
I E. Gnostic Christians think that bible God, the demiurge to us, is quite immoral for thinking that torturing King David's baby for 6 days before finally killing it is good justice. Gnostic Christians think that evil while Christians think that a good form of justice.
Which group do you think is right?
Regards
DL