Rough weather hopefully behind...
OK, there are some stories I haven't been telling. Some may have to wait until May.
But mostly I haven't been keeping up to date because I'm lazy. That's right, you guessed it.
Saw a very interesting National Geographic show last night on "The Gospel of Judas." Whoooo boy - despite the careful approach they took with scholars dished up with more scholars, I'm sure some people will take exception to to any boat-rocking of belief systems.
I think the healthiest approach to dialectical spiritualism is to accept that spirituality (or professed lack of it) is a manner of self-expression. Everyone doesn't have to express themselves the same way (unless you have a really totalitarian approach to things).
Anyway it piqued my interest in diving into Gnostic teachings a little more. As a non-Christian in a very occasionally belligerently Christian country, I identify heavily with Jesus and his teachings - though in a way that many "in the mainstream" would not agree with.
The part I found most interesting is the idea that there is a spark of divinity within each of us, which runs somewhat contrary to an idea circulated by many who claim that a central tenet of Christianity is that since the fall of Adam and Eve, we are all inherently sinful and without redemption have no hope.
But there's a different approach to that discussion which I'll save for another day...
But mostly I haven't been keeping up to date because I'm lazy. That's right, you guessed it.
Saw a very interesting National Geographic show last night on "The Gospel of Judas." Whoooo boy - despite the careful approach they took with scholars dished up with more scholars, I'm sure some people will take exception to to any boat-rocking of belief systems.
I think the healthiest approach to dialectical spiritualism is to accept that spirituality (or professed lack of it) is a manner of self-expression. Everyone doesn't have to express themselves the same way (unless you have a really totalitarian approach to things).
Anyway it piqued my interest in diving into Gnostic teachings a little more. As a non-Christian in a very occasionally belligerently Christian country, I identify heavily with Jesus and his teachings - though in a way that many "in the mainstream" would not agree with.
The part I found most interesting is the idea that there is a spark of divinity within each of us, which runs somewhat contrary to an idea circulated by many who claim that a central tenet of Christianity is that since the fall of Adam and Eve, we are all inherently sinful and without redemption have no hope.
But there's a different approach to that discussion which I'll save for another day...
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