April 18, 2009, 7:30 am by dc-agape.

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In Gnostic Christianity YHWH is not the Supreme Being and Jesus is not his son.  Christ’s purpose is to being knowledge to humans.  He has done this twice.  The first time was when he told Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The second time was when the Christ descended upon Jesus at his baptism.  Now that I have your attention and you are completely confused…The Highest Supreme Being is both male and female.  One is the Father of Light the other is Sophia, the Mother of Knowledge.  In her desire to create, she made YHWH, but because she did not include the Father of Light YHWH was incomplete.  YHWH, in fact, is Satan!  YHWH did create the Garden of Eden (and Earth, the animals, etc).  But when he attempted to create humans he failed, he could not breathe life into Adam.  Sophia, feeling guilty for her mistake of creating YHWH, and seeing the inert body of Adam lying in the mud, came down to earth and breathed life into him.  When YHWH saw this he was enraged and attempted to defile Sophia.  She did two things to thwart YHWH: she made a duplicate of herself (Eve) and hid in what would become the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (because of her existence in the Tree).  When her son, The Christ, saw what had happened he came down to rescue his Mother.  But then he saw Adam and Eve and felt pity of them because of the ignorance that YHWH had left them in.  He instructed Eve (not tempted) while in the form of a snake (to avoid YHWH) to eat from the now infused Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  He then rescues his Mother and both leave YHWH to continue to bring ignorance to humanity until his second return.

You see that is why YHWH is a Jealous God; he knows that he is not the Supreme Being.  But he wants his creation to believe that he is by leaving humans in ignorance of the Truth.  Basically, the Gnostic Christians explain every detail of why YHWH is such an evil god.  Since creation he has attempted to keep humans from knowing the truth, but when the Christ descended upon Jesus for a short period of time humans knew the truth.  YHWH has continued to malign Christianity so that the Truth that Jesus taught was buried under the lies that YHWH whispered to the leaders of the Church. 

To an Atheist this story does an excellent job of explaining why so many Christians ignore or rationalize away the teaching of Jesus.  Love thy neighbor, give to the poor, turn the other cheek, humility, and serving others before yourself, all these teaching are ignored for the “more important Christian teachings”. These more important ones are like pleasing YHWH, teaching “creation science”, stopping abortion (which would only create more poor and miserable children), stopping homosexual marriage, and slow (or stop) scientific research that would create knowledge.

With many of the Gnostic Gospels having been written in the 1^st century CE, it is obvious that someone or something did intervene in the teaching of Jesus.  Call it Satan or the Gnostic Christians version of YHWH, but something happened to Christianity prior to the 3^rd Council of Carthage (when the Christian Bible was complied).  An entire (possible three) Christian sect(s) were deemed heretical.  But the question comes were they heretical because they were the false teachers or was the more popular version of Christianity (Constantine’s) actually the false religion?  Now that we have the Nag Hammadi Library I hope this will shake the Christian arrogance to the core.  If you are a Christian, are you sure, not in faith, but in reality that you have the one True Faith?  What proof can you provide that you are right and the Gnostic Christians are the heretics?

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January 19, 2009, 11:34 am by dc-agape.

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was at the center of the garden and is the center of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faith.  How has this “knowledge” influenced mankind?  In today’s world the TrueChristianTM claims that we choose to do evil over doing good deeds.  Instead of taking responsibility for the evil act we hear things like “the devil made me do it!” or “the the Satan’s temptation was too great!”  But this is hogwash!  If we know the difference between Good and Evil, then some people will do good and others will do evil.  We should not need to blame the acts on YHWH or Satan, the responsibility lies within us, for we know good and evil.

The Book of Genesis and my study of the Bible so far, this is just not the case!  Of all the people who should have known the difference between good and evil, Cain was surely the most likely.  Yet due to YHWH arbitrarily choosing blood sacrifice over harvest sacrifice, Cain was driven to murder.  In fact, Cain’s knowledge of good and evil may have caused him to see that YHWH did not have any good intentions when he chose Abel’s offering over Cain’s. 

Without a doubt YHWH takes freewill from us arbitrarily.  Some examples are Saul and with the Pharaoh.  Even if these men knew good from evil, it was YHWH that forced them to do evil.  What good was the punishment for eating from the Tree of Knowledge if YHWH can supersede that knowledge at any time?

During Noah’s lifetime:

Gen 6:5 The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Man’s thought were so evil that YHWH destroyed all creation, except Noah’s family and a few animals.  If Adam and Eve had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge…how could all humanity take only to the evil side?  The law of averages (probability theory) just cannot explain how this occurred.  If anything, 50% of the large number of people should have been good and 50% of that same number of people should have been evil.  Unless, of course, we do blame it on Satan!  But in that case it would mean that Satan is more powerful than YHWH at manipulating humankind.  And even if you use the concept that Satan cheats and YHWH does not…YHWH did nothing to warn the people of his wrath!  He just wiped them off the planet, 1600 years of human reproduction was destroyed without any attempt to save the lives of those people and innocent animals!  What a loving YHWH!

By the time YHWH gets around to choosing one family bloodline to insure their salvation, 300 more years of human reproduction had taken place.  All the clans of Japheth, Ham, and Shem were breeding like rabbits, yet YHWH chose Abram to save.  By this time, Canaan and Egypt were full of souls that had no option to be good.  YHWH had closed them off from being righteous towards him.  Yes, they may have been “evil” in the eyes of YHWH, but now they had no chance to change!  YHWH doomed them to an existence without him by choosing one man out of all the humans on the planet.

The bloodline that YHWH chose was a doozie.  Abraham himself was a liar, a thief, had sex with his slave, did not trust YHWH, and treats his slaves like useless chaff.  The Bible tells us that Abraham knew good from evil, yet from his actions he could not have been any better than at least half the other people on the planet!

Isaac was probably the only one who knew the difference between good and evil and succeeded at doing mostly good deeds.  Jacob (Israel) on the other did not act as if he knew what the word “good” meant.  He tricks his own brother and father, he does not trust in the YHWH for at least the first 40 years of his life, he is deathly afraid of both Laban and Esau, he lies to Esau and Jacob.  The sons of Israel are even worse:  Levi and Simeon are lying, thieving murderous thugs, Ruben is an adulterer, Judah is a lying, adulterous, self-serving, slave-trader.  Joseph himself is no angel, but just read all my posts about him (see my posts on Joseph).  Somehow these men know good from evil because of Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge, yet just look at the evil that they have committed.  And these are the best of the best that YHWH could find!

From a gay Atheist interpretation of the Book of Genesis, the Tree of Knowledge was totally a flop.  YHWH punished mankind for something that did not even work!  Today we certainly do not know good from evil.  It was the same for the men and women of the Book of Genesis could not discern good from evil action.  Over the centuries, the Christian faith certainly has not been able to discriminate what was good from evil.  Just look at the Crusades, the Witch Hunts, US Slavery, and the sexual predators in the Catholic Church. 

YHWH certainly is not the source of our conscience!  Science has a better grasp on why we feel empathy and compassion.  Throughout the ages mankind has had rules of law, from Hammurabi Code to China and even Greece (Gortyn Code), through today’s that is based on Biblical concepts that are only copies of those prior to the Jewish and Christian incorporation of those laws.  Since YHWH left all of mankind on their own since Abraham’s time (and then only focused on Israel), it is quite save to say…We developed culture, science, math, and law without his help.

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