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Gospel of John 20:18-21 Conclusion
Gospel of John 20:18-21 Conclusion paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 4 months ago

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REMOVED from Church History: Mystics who SHAPED Christianity
REMOVED from Church History: Mystics who SHAPED Christianity paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 4 months ago

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Most Christians don’t learn anything about the earliest Christian history.
Those who do, typically learn a canned narrative telling you how the church of popes and martyrs won out against external enemies (called “pagans”) and internal enemies (called “heretics”).

It’s time to stop ignoring the creators of early Christianity. It’s time to stop
marginalizing figures whose life and thought is so helpful for developing an authentic and philosophically-informed spirituality today. It’s time to embrace the heretics as the true fathers and mothers of a spiritual assembly. If Jesus spoke to the poor and the outcast, he spoke to heretics.

What united these figures? One simple thing: gnosis. Gnosis is not
information, it is deep knowledge, redeeming knowledge, transformative
learning. Christians who preached secret knowledge were called gnostics. In some cases, they called themselves gnostics. In others, they were called gnostics by their enemies.

A gnostic is a knower—a person who takes faith and transmutes it into spiritual knowledge. They stated reasons for their faith, and spoke in terms that transcended normal rationality. They were not afraid to speak against the majority, or to be countercultural. In being disruptive and radical, they followed the pattern set by Jesus himself.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Borborites Gospel of Mary Intro
00:02:52 - Epiphanius of Salamis Against the Nicolaitans
00:08:00 - Gnostics & Heretics
00:10:59 - Marcion of Sinope
00:13:00 - Marcion's Validity
00:16:39 - Marcionite Ditheism
00:20:43 - Marcion's Heresy
00:23:50 - Marcion in Context
00:29:38 - Marcion goes to Rome
00:33:15 - Simon Magus: Ultimate Heretic
00:37:17 - Great Declaration
00:39:16 - Simon the Universalist
00:41:42 - Simon the Samaritan
00:45:00 - Carpocrates & Carpocrations
00:47:05 - Epiphanes
00:48:05 - On Justice
00:50:10 - Carpocration Jesus
00:52:19 - Marcellina
00:57:52 - Epiphanes' Apotheosis
00:58:55 - Secret Mark
01:00:31 - Naassenes
01:01:26 - Naassene Preacher Sermon
01:06:44 - Phyrgian Great Mother
01:09:08 - Who are the Naassenes?
01:14:18 - Mystery Cults
01:16:23 - Nag Hammadi Codices





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Who Chose the Books of the New Testament?
Who Chose the Books of the New Testament? paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 4 months ago

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In this episode, Megan and Bart discuss the "origin of the canon," meaning: who chose the books that made it into the Bible, and why did they choose these 27?" They address related issues, such as:

-books, letters, and gospels that were considered authoritative by some early Christians, but were ultimately rejected on one basis or another

-early New Testament manuscripts that actually DO contain some rejected texts

-criteria that were used to determine which texts to include

-proto-orthodox church fathers and their influence

-what information early church fathers did--and did not--have to base their decisions on


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The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity - Part Two
The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity - Part Two paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 4 months ago

The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity, by Ralph Macchio, Part Two.
(chapters 6 - 10)
This book chronicles the replacement of an original Christianity which was diverse and Gnostic in character by an orthodox pseudo-theology defined by a narrow set of doctrines quite different in scope and spirit. If it shatters any image, it is the myth that there was an "original" Christianity, somewhat in the image of modern fundamentalism, where all held to the four Gospels, the concept of Jesus as God, His death for our sins, the resurrection of the body at the last day, etc. Rather it lifts the curtain on a profoundly different "original" Christianity--a rich set of doctrines in the Gnostic tradition defined across many sects existing at Christianity's very earliest beginnings including even the communities and teachings of St. Paul and the Nazorean community at Jerusalem, and including doctrines of reincarnation, the origins of evil in a class of beings called "archons," the preexistence of souls, the divine spark in each, therefore the divinity of each--all befitting the universalist character Jesus in fact had. And it chronicles the grim, often political and ultimately violent destruction of this diversity and these doctrines by the end of the fourth century, their replacement by a stark orthodoxy of distorted and narrowed dogmas, the destruction or suppression of the many gospels by an arbitrary and edited canon of four, and the concomitant establishment of a power structure set in a hierarchy which moved increasingly to the denial of freedom of belief and its final alliance with the power of the state.

Contents:

VI. The Emergence of Orthodoxy

The Misuse of the Old Testament-Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
The Power Politics of Orthodoxy
The Emergence of Creed
Ignatius Attacks Sectarian Christian Communities
Marcion-Marcion Formulates the First New Testament Canon

VII. The Great Schools of Christian Gnosis

Basilides
Basilides' Doctrine of Reincarnation
Valentinus
The Doctrine of the Three Natures
The School of Valentinus
Valentinian Literature-The Gospel Of Truth
The Valentinian Sacraments
The Doctrine of the Resurrection

VIII. The Orthodox Movement Formulates "Anti-Christian-Gnostic" Theology"

Justin Martyr
The Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word
The Resurrection of the Body

IX. Irenaeus and the Formulation of Orthodox Pseudo-Theology

Irenaeus
The Doctrine of Deity
Origins Of Christianity
The Doctrine of the Logos and Christ
The Doctrine of Salvation
Irenaeus Fabricates His Own Apostolic Succession
The Myth of the Orthodox Apostolic Succession
Tertullian
Cyprian of Carthage

X. Origen of Alexandria and the Golden Age of Christian Theology

The Catechetical School at Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria
Origen-The Synthesis of Christian Orthodoxy and Christian Gnosis
The Theology of Origen
The Trinity
Origen on the Doctrine of Christ
Origen on the Fall of Souls
Origen on the Fallen Angels
Origen's Doctrine of Salvation
Origen and Reincarnation
The Golden Age of Christian Theology
The Attack on Origen

The Question that Stops Christians in Their Tracks
The Question that Stops Christians in Their Tracks paccione .co.uk 1 Views • 4 months ago

Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason explains how to rephrase the question that stops Christians in their tracks.

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