Comments by "ANDROLOMA" (@ANDROLOMA) on "The Valentinians: Ancient Christian Gnostics?" video.

  1. Heimlich?
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  2.  @ButSeriouslyThough  Soft dualism = malleable historic realities.
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  3. I always found it peculiar how the Greek word for messiah was used for a Jesus title instead of the Aramaic word for messiah.
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  4.  @PhDTony_original  Today, I learned something new. Thank you, Tony.
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  5. My belief, perhaps erroneous, is that Christianity is a heresy from Judaism. As a heresy, it was desperate for validity by appending itself to an original tribal superstition which held prior acceptance. Which meant, of course, adapting that superstition's earlier written dictums and molding certain prophecies into predictions of an arrived messiah, instead of an impending messiah.
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  6.  @gospelofthomas77thpearl22  "Yeshua needed to complete the prophecy in the OT to ensure his name endured into the future." Ergo, Judas assisted Jesus, instead of betrayed him. And if Yeshua's name in the future took the risk of fading into historic obscurity, perhaps that would have been for the better?
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  7. Was the Gospel of Truth among the trove at Nag Hammadi?
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  8. In the movies.
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  9. Dr. Ehrman needs your suggestion as another book topic.
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  10.  @ButSeriouslyThough  Sounds dualistic.
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  11.  @ButSeriouslyThough  Irenaeus was history's greatest anti-heretical heretic. If he hated hypocrites as much as he hated heretics he would have killed himself.
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  12. In my Baptist upbringing, they never brought up the existence of Gnostics. If they had, it would have been to condemn them as well as every other Christian sect they frequently condemned. Baptists vilify everyone who isn't Baptist.
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  13.  @tafazzi-on-discord  The words "Christianity" and "honesty" should never be used within the same sentence, as vastly disparate terms..
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  14.  @tafazzi-on-discord  Jews disbelieve in the heresy of Christianity. Since the two religions profess the same idea of a supreme being, the more recent one is, by definition, the heresy. To deny or dispute such a conclusion of definition is itself quite dishonest. I've never understood why the Christians just didn't develop a new god instead of using the Jewish YHWH described in the Torah and Tanakh, who by analysis was described as tyrannical and capricious, in logically contradictory and poorly constructed revisionist history.
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  15.  @alexdale8705  Trust logic. Just because it was written doesn't necessarily mean it happened. And let's imagine for a moment plagues did happen. As far as their pertinence to the present, it's valid to ask "so what?"
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