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1 | Does the Father have a God? | John 1:1 | flinkywood | 137589 | ||
Sttil, Thanks for your replies. 1) What are "eternal realities"? 2) Could you please elucidate "life after death"? 3) What is the relationship of Gnosticism to John's use of "Logos" in John 1:1? Colin |
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2 | Does the Father have a God? | John 1:1 | STTIL | 137598 | ||
simply put Gnoticism being very concerned with a reason for good and evil, believe that all matter is evil and anything spiritual is good. Gnostics believe a renegade spirit called wisdom created the material world and the body being matter (and therefore evil) has trapped pieces of the spiritual. The Gnostic believes that every person has a spark of the spiritual trapped in the body asleep and it takes a special being to come from beyond to awaken "us". This ties into 1 and 2 above in that Greek philosopher Socrates expounded on the immortality of the soul, Justin used that to try to explain the eternal life a Christian receives at the new birth. in Greek philosophy and Gnosticism, "logos" supplies ideas, the mind will discover ideas by logos. The word logos meant word, giver of light, a being able to impart knowledge, they believed that logos enabled the humans to understand reality. |
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3 | Does the Father have a God? | John 1:1 | flinkywood | 137610 | ||
Are you saying, then, that 2 features of Christianity, immortality and the eternal life of "new birth" have their origin in Greek philosophy? Colin Colin |
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4 | Does the Father have a God? | John 1:1 | STTIL | 137616 | ||
no that is not what I am saying. I said that Socrates expounded on the immortality of the soul and that Justin used that to explain to the Greeks about the eternal life of the new birth each Christian receives when they are born again. Don't read into what I am saying what you think I am saying. | ||||||
5 | Does the Father have a God? | John 1:1 | mark d seyler | 137623 | ||
Hi STTIL, I echo what Hank has asked and said. Do you believe that Jesus is God? Love in Christ, Mark |
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