What a bunch of hooey. The church is or was a sect of Judaism in it's beginning. It has never been without the Book, because it has always had, from it's start, the Tanakh - Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings.
Again, outright wrong, on it;s face.
I am finding nothing here but projection.
Absolutely incorrect. God Himself did indeed make such a claim. TORAH. Unchanging and always. Anyone who says otherwise, anyone who adds to or takes away, anything other than Torah is *not* of Yahweh. That is pretty untouchable. And those words are guarded and guaranteed with forms of encryption that we are just now beginning to understand with the aid of computers. Magnificent.
Meh. More gnostic bullcrap. Gnosis... Knowlege... Do you know another word in the Greek with that meaning? Daimon... Demon.
Be careful who you listen to.
How very convenient it must be to have nothing written in stone... Where what you desire governs what is right and wrong. Where every contradiction between will and conscience can be thrown to the wind. It reminds me of... 'Do as thou wilt', where one is his own judge and god can be just about anything you want. Nothing to please but your own vanity.
Must be nice.
It has never been without the Book.Yes, it has. Without a bible at least. It had the Jewish writings of the Old Testament, and absolutely nothing of the New...as it was either unwritten at the time or simply one of many early writings that various groups adhered to across the Mediterranean. So what you wrote is total baloney.
TORAH. Unchanging and always.Torah is not the "biblos" that was assembled in the 3rd and 4th centuries...it was a small part of the larger work. Further, if a text "says" god says its infallible and can't be changed....that's still just a man writing what he believes god thinks/wants. Men wrote the books, not god, and their use of god to validate what they wrote is as unsurprising as it is non-credible. Again, you write MORE baloney. Try knowing your own "books" history for a change.
I am finding nothing here but projection.You are finding what you brought with you to the discussion. Not uncommon, but rather foolish.
Gnosis... Knowlege... Do you know another word in the Greek with that meaning? Daimon... Demon.Clearly, you are not an etymologist. The word Daimon is a Greek term referencing "spirit" or a "moving force", it does not mean knowledge nor does it refer to either a good or evil motive. Gnosis on the other hand, is simply a word for "knowledge" or "to know" or even "knowing". It is not related to Daimon, which is a truncation of Eudaimonia which means good "spiritedness". Christians saw pagans worshipping "good spirited forces" and used the word as a negative in referring to Pagan daemon. So you've taken two entirely unrelated things and sought to combine for effect...but you've failed because...well...you simply are incorrect in your understanding of both words.
How very convenient it must be to have nothing written in stone...God doesn't write in stone, or ink. Men do. God writes in our hearts and in the very air around us. It can be convenient, but its also trying because men often blind themselves to the god who is in and all around them. As for god's love, that is...metaphorically...written in stone and stamped on every atom. So its has a permanence that no book or doctrine can ever compete with.
Be careful who you listen to.Good advice for all. Could not agree more. That includes of course, men who wrote books that were later collected into a "biblos", now called a bible. These fellows of the 2nd and 3rd centuries were plagued by the same failings, inadequacies, biases and foolishness as we are today. Worshipping their collection is idol worship....literally. The only one you should listen to is the voice of God in your heart and in the world around you...that is the true bible.