Since 5th/6th century CE ... "for at least the first millennium of Christendom", and then the rapid emergence of counter / secular discourses on ethics. — 180 Proof
Therefore, I wonder how, from a philosophy point of view we may approach and understand this book, or collection of books. — Jack Cummins
got stuck on the passage about 'the unforgivable sin' — Jack Cummins
One of the main premises of the Bible was the entire message of people being sinners. — Jack Cummins
You correctly point to the examples of Hitler and Stalin. — Jack Cummins
I do agree that the idea of being born from sin is mostly derived from Paul rather than Christ. — Jack Cummins
In many ways I believe that so much of the thinking within Christianity goes back to the thinking of Paul. — Jack Cummins
This is another example of seeing the Hebrew Bible through the lens of the New Testament. — Fooloso4
In my opinion, Christianity is the religion invented by Paul — Fooloso4
I believe that the canon of The Bible arose in the early centuries of the Church Fathers — Jack Cummins
One of the main premises of the Bible was the entire message of people being sinners — Jack Cummins
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that humans inherit a tainted nature and a proclivity to sin through the fact of birth. — Wikipedia
Despite describing death as having come to all men through Adam (original sin) [...] — Wikipedia
fall of the Lucifer — Jack Cummins
sacred prostitute — Jack Cummins
The Gnostic writings may have been suppressed for this reason, for making the ideas appear to be mainly symbolic. — Jack Cummins
Gee, was I being too opinionated Jack — 3017amen
it does raise the continuum from the fundamentalist to the Gnostic, and funnily enough Elaine Pagels suggests that in their time the Gnostics were regarded as atheists. I have stood at many places on this continuum because I was raised as a Catholic, but looked at The Bible and Christianity from different angles. I remember when I was writing a dissertation on Carl Jung, I went to an evangelical church and a couple of people there told me that I should not study or write about Carl Jung. They were fundamentalist and regarded Jung's ideas as the work of the devil. — Jack Cummins
I also discovered a few years ago that my English teacher from school has written a book on the complex relationship between Catholicism, sex and psychology. — Jack Cummins
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