Book of the Week: Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
Monday March 31, 2008
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Was Christianity originally founded upon the teachings and activities of a real person named Jesus, or was it rather based upon a fictionalized character created to convey mysterious truths? Does the answer to this question have any consequences for the nature of Christianity, either for today or for the future? According to Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, it does indeed have significant consequences — but none of them good for traditional Christian institutions and power structures.
Book of the Week: Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
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There are two goddesses that were mentioned in conjunction with Hebrew worship in the OT: Asherah and Sophia.
Sophia carries over to the Christian era, where there are stories about here. The Pistis Sophia mentions her in conjunction with Jesus.
She is the goddess of wisdom, and is the same “Wisdom” who speaks in Solomon’s manuscripts in the OT.
Most Xians today think of that text as simply “Wisdom personified”–as if it was some sort of poetic license that was used by the author. While the writing is poetic, there’s simply no way around that fact that Sophia is the name of the person speaking in the text. The name translates to “Wisdom.” And if a person reads what she says, there is no doubt she is the ancient diety Sophia as intended by the author.
She says she was there when the foundations of the Earth were laid. I encourage anyone interested to google this and learn more. It’s very easy to find, and to locate the passages in the Bible where she speaks her “wisdom” to the Hebrews–and to the Xians to this day in their own Bible!
If you are relying on Freke and Gandy for historical arguments, you are indeed desperate.
You should know better.
Where did I said I was? If you read the review, you’d know that I am critical of their book; then again, you do have a history here of making dramatic accusations even when the text says the opposite of what you complain about. You are doing it now under your current alias, Rabbi Zedek, and you did it before under you previous aliases: Agent of Goldstein, A Theist, Anti Cline, Atheism Sucks, Kansas City Anti Atheists, etc.
I think that if you really believed in what you were saying, you wouldn’t feel the need to keep changing your name. You might even not feel the need to hide behind anonymity.
I know well enough to address what people actually write instead of just making stuff up to attack.
Kiss my a**.
You don’t tell us what to do.
From your description, it does seem the authors left out why things would have changed from the gnostic mysticism toward literalism. That’s unfortunate; but as you note, perhaps their own spiritual beliefs cloud them trying to actually uncover some kind of truth. There’s nothing more truthful or rational about gnosticism than all other versions of batsh** crazy religion.
Sidenote: Maybe ‘Rabbi Zedek’ should take some time out from his trolling to read a little about IP addresses.