Re: creation & sabbath (Was Re: Questions to Allen Roy)

From: Darryl Maddox (dpmaddox@arn.net)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 08:31:00 EDT

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    I just noticed this discussion involving Gnositcism and have nothing to contribute to it except the title of a book that has some information on Gnosticism and other competitors of early Christianity.

    Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity: 330 BC t o 330 AD, Francis Legge. I don't know when it was originally published or by whom but the Preface is dated July 1914 and Francis Legge died 1in 1922. The edition I have is Copywrite 1964 by University Books.

    Darryl
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
    To: <RFaussette@aol.com>
    Cc: <allenroy@peoplepc.com>; <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:06 AM
    Subject: Re: creation & sabbath (Was Re: Questions to Allen Roy)

    > RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
    > >
    > > In a message dated 9/27/03 9:31:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurphy@raex.com
    > > writes:
    > >
    > > > This is why Christianity has always had to resist (with greater or lesser
    > > > success) gnostic ideas that salvation is about
    > > > somehow escaping from the physical world & "going to heaven."
    > > >
    > > >
    > >
    > > gnosticism is not about escaping from the world - it's about facing it - this
    > > is also the common misconception regarding Buddhism.
    >
    > I have said nothing about Buddhism, about which my knowledge is limited. I do
    > know something about gnosticism, in the sense in which the word is used to describe
    > religious movements in the Mediterranean world in the early centuries of the Christian
    > era. Characteristic beliefs of these movements were that the physical world was some
    > sort of inferior production of a lesser deity, and that salvation came through knowledge
    > (hence the name) which would enable our true selves to be freed from the world. Of
    > course I state this in very general terms: There was a wide variety of gnostic ideas.
    >
    > Shalom,
    > George
    >
    > George L. Murphy
    > gmurphy@raex.com
    > http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
    >
    >
    >
    >

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