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(OP) User ID: 61980613  United States01/11/2015 09:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They talk abut her more in the gnostic text I have noticed. I find it funny that what I was taught is that she was a prostitute and that's far from the truth. The Catholic church definitely did her wrong. Even without the gnostic material, the biblical canon makes a strong case that Jesus thought highly of her. For example, she was on of the first evangelists (along with other unlikely candidates like the Samaritan woman at the well, the Ethiopian eunuch, and the man out of whom Jesus cast the Legion.) I think they picked and chose who they wanted to talk about. They left all else out. It was one of the main reason I had to rethink everything I was taught. "Re-think" is one of my favorite words, and I'm sure my work colleagues are tired of hearing it. I'm always saying, "We need to re-think the way we do some things." One of my older tag lines on GLP is "The way we think about things determines what we think about things." We become like that to which we are devoted. - Choose wisely. |
| Pandora1777
User ID: 66721508 United States01/11/2015 10:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it fits. Think the search for belief could span a life time with me. Pandora1777 "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant |
| Life and Love
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20691699 United States01/11/2015 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Your interpretation is certainly one aspect of it. I think of it as Jesus explaining how he relates to God. He doesn't see loss as we do. He thinks of it as God removing fruitless things from his life. Most people bewail their losses and become trapped in trying to regain what was lost, or using it as an excuse for not moving forward. Jesus takes all losses as God removing something he no longer needed. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1816800 United States01/11/2015 10:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be." Quoting: Pandora1777 Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death." Gospel Of Thomas. one of my favorites Never heard that one, very cool. Thanks |
| Pandora1777
User ID: 66721508 United States01/11/2015 10:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be." Quoting: Pandora1777 Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death." Gospel Of Thomas. one of my favorites Never heard that one, very cool. Thanks I'm glad you like it. Pandora1777 "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant |
| Pandora1777
User ID: 66721508 United States01/13/2015 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Kingdom of God is within. Pandora1777 "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant |
