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Awesome book. I am at page 150

Piety is not an end, but a means of attaining the highest degree of culture by perfect peace of mind. Hence it is to be observed that those who make piety an end and aim in itself for the most part become hypocrites. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How much Christian inspirational material books do we need?

Some texts from the NT that supported the Marcionism beliefs about Christ being apart from OT teachings : Romans 8:3, Luke 6:43-44, Mark 2:22 Marcionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/info/marcion-wace.html Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1585&letter =A&search=Marcion The Antithesis http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/3827/the_antithesis_c b.html Tertullian "Against Marcion" http://www.tertullian.org/articles/evans_marc/evans_marc_04b ook1_eng.htm Interview with Bart Ehrman about Lost Christianities http://www.beliefnet.com/story/150/story_15091_1.html "Forcing the end" Jewish Background CHRISTIANITY: A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE http://z11.invisionfree.com/Yeshua_Quest/index.php?showtopic =90 Kitos War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War Jewish-Roman War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War Jewish messianic claimants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah_claimants

Sorry about the title before. It copied wrong! Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=280&letter= G&search=Gnostic Smadewell's: Paul - Against Porot-Gnostic Archons: Rabbinic or Hellenistic Astrology? http://z11.invisionfree.com/Yeshua_Quest/index.php?showtopic =46 The Nag Hammadi Library http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlalpha.html The Gospel of Philip http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html The Apocalypse of Peter- May have influenced Dante's Inferno http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apopet.html The Gnostic Bible- By Willis Barnstone ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------- Wisdom Literature Gospel of Thomas http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html Sethian Who were they? http://jdt.unl.edu/lithist.html The Three steles of Seth http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/steles.html Valentinian Literature Who were they? http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/index.html The Gospel of Philip http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html Syrian Literature Who were they? http://www.gnosis.org/library/hymnpearl.htm The Song of the Pearl http://www.gnosis.org/library/hymnpearl.htm Hermetic Literature Who were they? http://www.gnosis.org/library/hermet.htm The Prayer of Thanksgiving http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/prat.html Mandaean Literature Who were they? http://www.mandaeanworld.com/mandaeanworld1.html The Ginza http://www.gnosis.org/library/ginzarba.htm Manichaean Literature Who were they? http://www.gnosis.org/library/manis.htm Writings on Mani- Note the integration of Buddhist Ideas. http://essenes.net/mythos.html Islamic Gnostic Literature http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/islamlit.htm http://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/islamic_gnosis_wisdom/ Some texts http://www.gnosis.org/sufi.mystica.html Cathar Who were they? http://www.languedoc-france.info/120101_beliefs.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar Cathar Texts http://www.gnosis.org/library/cathtx.htm

Sorry I stumbled through that one. I'm bad with names. I was able to find all the texts mentioned. Many of the texts are lost and are only found in quotes of the Early Church Fathers. Hope you all enjoy this. I use the Hebrew word in order to possibly explain that they may have been like the Christians in Acts 4:32-37 This makes more sense to me. The Gospel of the Ebionites http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelebionites.h tml The Gospel of the Nazarenes http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/nazoreans- ogg.html Epistle of BARNABAS http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/barnabas- hoole.html Letter of Peter to James. http://bennieblount.org/Online/ECF/ANF/ANF-08/anf08-42.htm#P 3254_1014821 Simon Magus, a Formidable Antagonist. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.iv.v.html The Clementine Homilies http://www.essene.com/ClementineHomilies/index.html

Sorry to be long winded. Have a drink and enjoy. Early Christian Writings http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/alphabetical.html The Quest of the Historical Jesus http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/ Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Bauer/bauer05.htm Q: The Lost Sayings Source Burton Mack's translation http://www.cygnus-study.com/pageq.html

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlalpha.html Writings of the Early Church Fathers http://www.ccel.org/ Texts that influenced my thinking: Anchor Bible Commentary New Jerome Commentary Lost Christianities The Battle for God The History of God Who Wrote the New Testament Dead Sea Scrolls Power of the Myth Myths to Live By Nag Hammadi Library The Gnostic Bible Lost Scriptures Golden Bough Liberating the Gospels Writings of the Early Church Fathers

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.-1Co 15:54 When the Lord puts on a body, or casts it from him, He enters or departs, taking the mind and the senses away with him, as the wind steals perfume out of the flowers. - Bhagavad-Gita "Blessed is He in Whose hand is the Sovereignty, and, He is Able to do all things. Who hath created life and death that He may try you which of you is best in conduct; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving," - al-Mulk: The Kingdom- The Koran "As soon as Gilgamesh heard this he heeded the utterances of the scorpion-being. Along the Road of the Sun L he journeyed-- one league he traveled ..., dense was the darkness, light there was none. Neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Two leagues he traveled ..., dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. [22 lines are missing here.] Four leagues he traveled ..., dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Five leagues he traveled ..., dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Six leagues he traveled ..., dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Seven leagues he traveled .. dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Eight leagues he traveled and cried out (!), dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Nine leagues he traveled ... the North Wind. It licked at his face, dense was the darkness, light there was none, neither what lies ahead nor behind does it allow him to see. Ten leagues he traveled ... ... is near, ... four leagues. Eleven leagues he traveled and came out before the sun(rise). Twelve leagues he traveled and it grew brilliant. ...it bears lapis lazuli as foliage, bearing fruit, a delight to look upon." Tablet 9 The epic of Gilgamesh

A reply I did to Ashetheraven and his video entitled "Rape in the bible is okay.. apparently Pt. 1" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx81KNq1wSg Correction: It was Achan that committed the holy war crime not Absalom. Sorry I have a bad memory. Judges: Ch 19-20 A few things to consider when reading the mention text. Culture of the Ancient Near East at that time. Law code of Hammurabi The Laws of Holy War The account of Lot in Sodom Texts of I&II Samuel, especially the Samuel -Saul conflicts concerning war.

Who was the assassin that killed this king? What brilliant technique was used to commit the act? Who was the King? What unusual place did he get kill at? What was he doing when he got killed? Congratulations to GregMonroeVlog on youtube for winning the last challenge by default.

Some ramblings about myself and Easter Sunday Memories.

Women of the bible who sliced and diced. Judges 4 & 5 Judith 13 Sorry for screwing up the reading some of the words are rather large.

My views on baptism. Videos get longer when I drink while recording.. Sorry. Hindu-Goddess of the rivers and healing. One part of her is the milky way and the other the river Ganges. The Ganges is the Holy River of Hinduism. Bathing in its waters cleanses one of all sins. She is the Goddess of health and luck. Ganga = Cleansing Stream The story goes that this "mother of rivers" once lived in heaven with her sister, the virgin, Uma. When sea-dwelling demons harassed the earth, Agastya swallowed the ocean where they hid, thereby getting rid of the demons; but the earth was left seriously parched and dry. Because of the prayers of the people, the heavenly water goddess Ganga descended to earth. She became embodied as the sacred river Ganges. Her role is as the goddess of health, happiness, fertility, and wealth. One of the wives of Shiva, she was the daughter of the mountain Himalaya. http://inanna.virtualave.net/indian.html In Judaism and early Christianity it is the Jordon. Christian Textual Variants: http://bible.ovc.edu/tc/ The verb used in the New Testament is (ßapt?´??, bapti´zo¯). The substantives ba´ptisma and baptismo´s occur, though the latter is not used in the New Testament of the ordinance of baptism except by implication (Heb_6:2, "the teaching of baptisms") where the reference is to the distinction between the Christian ordinance and the Jewish ceremonial ablutions. Some documents have it also in Col_2:12 (compare Heb_9:10, "divers washings") for a reference purely to the Jewish purifications (compare the dispute about purifying in Joh_3:25). The verb baptizo¯ appears in this sense in Luk_11:38 (margin) where the Pharisee marveled that Jesus "had not first bathed himself before breakfast" (noon-day meal). The Mosaic regulations required the bath of the whole body (Lev_15:16) for certain uncleannesses. Tertullian (de Baptismo, XV) says that the Jew required almost daily washing. Herodotus (ii.47) says that if an Egyptian "touches a swine in passing with his clothes, he goes to the river and dips himself (ba´pto¯) from it" (quoted by Broadus in Commentary on Matthew, 333). See also the Jewish scrupulosity illustrated in Sirach 34:25 and Judith 12:7 where baptizo¯ occurs. The Baptists make one more point concerning baptism. It is that, since Jesus himself submitted to it and enjoined it upon His disciples, the ordinance is of perpetual obligation. The arguments for the late ecclesiastical origin of Mat 28:19 are not convincing. If it seem strange that Jesus should mention the three persons of the Trinity in connection with the command to baptize, one should remember that the Father and the Spirit were both manifested to Him at His baptism. It was not a mere ceremonial ablution like the Jewish rites. It was the public and formal avowal of fealty to God, and the names of the Trinity properly occur. The new heart is wrought by the Holy Spirit. Reconciliation with the Father is wrought on the basis of the work of the Son, who has manifested the Father's love in His life and death for sin. The fact that in the acts in the examples of baptism only the name of Jesus occurs does not show that this was the exact formula used. International Standard Encyclopedia "Baptism: The Baptist Interpretation". For a well rounded Catholic theological view, that was very well done, see the FatherNathan video on the topic. He raises some very good questions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTe8on5zG4A

These curses may have influenced the modern day thinking concerning apocalyptic literature. But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees, which I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you: Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock. (Deu 28:15-18 NRSV) The texts Erra and Ishum. Long but beautifully written. http://www.piney.com/Baberraishum.html

Book 6 Iliad For Antea, wife of Proetus, lusted after him, and would have had him lie with her in secret; but Bellerophon was an honorable man and would not, so she told lies about him to Proteus. 'Proetus,' said she, 'kill Bellerophon or die, for he would have had converse with me against my will.' The king was angered, but shrank from killing Bellerophon, so he sent him to Lycia with lying letters of introduction, written on a folded tablet, and containing much ill against the bearer. He bade Bellerophon show these letters to his father-in-law, to the end that he might thus perish; Bellerophon therefore went to Lycia, and the gods convoyed him safely. And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me." But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, with me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her. One day, however, when he went into the house to do his work, and while no one else was in the house, she caught hold of his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside. When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, she called out to the members of her household and said to them, "See, my husband [161] has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us! He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice; and when he heard me raise my voice and cry out, he left his garment beside me, and fled outside." Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home, and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to insult me; but as soon as I raised my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me, and fled outside." When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, "This is the way your servant treated me," he became enraged. Gen 39:7-19 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the years of your life?" Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn."Gen 47:8-9

Christian Textual Variants: http://bible.ovc.edu/tc/ Book of Mormon Textual Variants http://www.irr.org/MIT/changingscrips.html Quran Textual Variants: http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Green/seven.htm

Then Yahweh said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin is so grave, that I shall go down and see whether or not their actions are at all as the outcry reaching me would suggest. Then I shall know.' (Gen 18:20-21 NJB) LAMENT FOR ERIDU http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/lamentations/lamenteridu.html LAMENTATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF UR http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/lamentations/lamentur.html

Well everyone has an opinion sorry to all the awesome biblical scholars out there who work hard and deserve to be recognized.

While reading thinking about all the impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls I have come to the conclusions I discuss. Books: Ehrman, Bart.D. "Misquoting Jesus" HarperCollins SanFrancisco, CA 2007 - "Historical Jesus" The Teaching company Friedman, Richard Elliott. "Who wrote the Bible" Mac, Burton L. "Who wrote The New Testament" - "The Gospel of Q" (more)