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Originally posted by pthena
reply to post by rileyw
I am not a Marcionite neither am I Gnostic for rather than reject the material world I embrace and love it. This is God's will. I have no problem being least in the kingdom of heaven. If I refuse to kill a Sabbath breaker, then I refuse to obey one of the literal commands. I will be least, so what? Literal YHWH as ignorant doesn't know the difference yet, though he has the clue, as do all who read Torah. The two sides are there until heaven and earth pass away.
Also I depart from Gnostics and Marcion on the question of evil. They taught that evil and harm happen because the world was created by the inferior god. I don't even think in terms of creation as an event in the past but as an ongoing process in which the true God the Father still is working, as Jesus said, 'the Father is still working and so am I.' The physical realm is not static, but evolving. Pain and suffering are felt by the Father through our pain and suffering.
My religion is mine alone, no one else has taught it, neither should any follow it. It is not Orthodox, nor Gnostic, nor Marcionite. It takes from any and all.
God of pathos, not the neutral God of the philosophers,
not the Unmoved Mover of Aristotle, but the Most Moved Mover of the Bible
God of pathos, not the neutral God of the philosophers,
not the Unmoved Mover of Aristotle, but the Most Moved Mover of the Bible
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Pope Benedict XVI has called laws ignoring the difference between the sexes an "attack" on creation just days after Portugal moved to legalise gay marriage.
Creatures, including humans, "can be protected or endangered", the Pope, 82, told the Vatican diplomatic corps in a traditional January address focusing mainly on environmental issues.
"One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes," he said, citing "certain countries in Europe or North and South America".