Re: Re religion of Jesus was not Christianity

zen gnostic <borgersbrent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:

> Correction: 

     Past time you began correcting your mistakes, but you have
lots more work to do. 

> "a gnostic" ---

     A gnostic is an adherent of gnosticism.  Your viewpoint is
directly opposed, so you don't fit the description.  Seems
that bothers you, since you've got a history of misrepresenting 
the gnostics in ways which bring their outlook closer to 
yours, e.g., your false denial gnosis divides the demiurge from 
God.

> adj. person

     You're an ignorant person unaquainted with even well-known
elements of the gnostic perspective, not to mention the
meaning of the word "gnostic," and incapable of valid reasoning
on the topic.  You didn't realize that a gnostic is by
definition an adherent of gnosticism, it escaped your attention
the gnostics often consider Jesus a heavenly being, and you 
tried to excuse the demiurge on grounds that he'd permitted you 
to treat your illness, forgetting he's the maker of this
disease-filled world.  Three swings and three misses.  The word
for that probably escapes you.

> may or may not agree with

     You began way back when by wrongly claiming agreement with
Pagels.  From there you moved on to quoting random bits and 
pieces you found on the web -- and often as not, they disagreed
with you, too.

> the teachings of gnosticism.

     The world-rejecting, life-denying teachings characteristic
of the gnostics are a scandal to your New Age attitude.  
Worse yet, they disprove your idea all religions are ultimately
the same.

-- Catawumpus