Why has this site seen a huge turn towards Christian shit? It smells waaay off. Like, Russel Brand and all these other influencers turn Christian and this forum becomes overrun with worshippers of the Lord God of Israel via the Jesus psy op.
Why have TPTB decided to shove Christianity down everyones throats and flood boards with Christian bots etc?
Are they trying to strengthen their grip over us spiritually by reinforcing their original deception or what?
Well, look at the link you posted earlier, even there, where you perceive a distancing between the DSS and the NHT, they too echo the idea that the Gospel of Thomas predated the synoptic gospels.
Further, I would just suggest not letting yourself get bogged down in what “the experts” or even what any other person labels as Gnostic or not - what I mean by that is, any “gnostic” would believe that their interpretation is (atleast an approximation of) the “original” “true” interpretation of / nature of existence - or in other words, “Adam was the first gnostic” or something along those lines, hence why Enoch could be called gnostic as well - hope I’m conveying my point here adequately
Have you read about the Essenes before? That’s a group I would call “gnostic” (jews), whereas groups like the Sethians or the Marcionites would probably more accurately be called Gnostic (Christians). My overarching point being there’s way too much nuance to accurately convey in (even a series of) comments lol. More important I think is the lowercase g “gnostic line of thought” which we can arguably trace back to the beginning (depending on how literally you want to take the gnostic cosmogonies)
yeah, I think it's probably best not to conflate these terms.
Gnostic refers to a specific group in and around early Christianity, correct? And this sect (if that's the right term) have their own gospels which are generally considered to post date the synoptics.
The Gospel of Thomas predating or being contemporaneous with the early Christian texts is a fascinating idea and I'm not saying it isn't the case. It could well be. But it still doesn't undo all the other Christian texts which are abundantly evil and deceptive and anti-gentile and which only serve to underpin the OT anyway.
It doesn't move the needle on any of that. Unless, you DO agree that the NT should be thrown out entirely for the sake of the Gnostic gospels.
Can both the canonical NT and the Gnostic texts coexist and complement each other? Or are they irreconcilably opposed in fundamental ways?