GenSeneca
"Thanks for the link! Can you recommend any that deal more with the ascension aspects of Gnosticism?"
My pleasure. No, I cannot. There may be some out there but a modern Gnostic Christian will see Jesus as a man and Rabbi. Dead men do not walk or rise from the grave. The tradition I follow is that Jesus never died. Why would he have to die to redeem us when he never condemned us. A God that condemns man is condemning himself if he made us what we are. Right?
The only ascension I believe in happens within our own minds as that is where God is. Within. Exactly where all the Jesus' say he is.
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"Again, not sure if you mean for your words to be taken literally"
Yes. That is my literal belief.
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"You "give" women and children "more" rights than men... but at who's expense"
To the glory of men who know what their duty to the whole of the human demography is.
That is what created the law of the sea in the first place.
Or do you want to join the Captain Coward Club.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/costa-concordia-captain-coward-back-on-board-1-3323170
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"So, you think it's morally wrong for Christians and Muslims to discriminate against women and gays... But consider it morally correct to discriminate against men by giving women and children "more" rights..."
Correct. See above. You might call it Affirmative Action.
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To your last.
I have no worthy disagreement with Gnostic Christianity as I know it.
If you think it a burden to place your children and women and their needs above yours then I would say that you should look for another religion. You would not be Gnostic Christian material.
Regards
DL
