Funny, I have unorthodox views of christianity. I really could careless if women became priests, or should I say priestess for that matter. It doesn't bother me at all. And no, I don't take the bible word for word as the gospel truth.
In other words, I'm not a fundamentalist. I was born as a Roman Catholic, but as I grew older, I started to look outside of my faith. I try to go back to the very roots of it all. But truthfully, I don't follow any organized religion. I'm really an agnostic at heart.
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Funny though many churches in the first few chapters of Proverbs about wisdom being a she, and it is also taught in some churches that this was Jesus.....Always sounded confusing to me....Jesus having female attributes, but then again if you look at the Gnostic's and sofia being wisdom.....some of the proverbs could be gnostic....
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i find it interesting that in each chronologically subsequent evangelical gospel, judas is depicted as more and more . . . evil. it's like the preceding gospel had an effect on the one that followed. that, or, ideas about judas changed somehow in the times between the writing of the 4 gospels.
in any event, this gospel of judas has raised some interesting issues.
I agree, but the reason Judas is interesting is because it a different account. I haven't read it, but what I gleaned form CNN made its seem, in my opinion, that Jesus was simply a crazy fanatic that asked Judas to help him become a martyr.
But I find the ultimate question to be, who wrote them. While htis is not a pertentant to M,M,L, and J (because of the editing). With Judas it is moreso.
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Mathew, Mark, Luke or John did not write any of the books. They were written some 60 to 100 years later by unknown writers. There is evidence that they were compiled from other books that are now missing. I bet they are all in the Vatican, hidden away.
You mean Q? Gosh yes, because two thousand-year-old books never just fade into obscurity; must be a Vatican conspiracy...
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Oh yes I know, I was referring to the fact that we know that they have been altered so many times, knowing who originally wrote them is rather irrelevant now.
You ever wonder what the vatican has in its vaults?
I don't know what the Vatican has in it's vaults, but if they really had documents that they didn't ever want to be revealed, there would be a much more logical solution than locking them up forever. The precise nature of this solution is top secret, so I can say only that it involves a match.
That's how they handled it in the first few centuries, anyway.
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