I mean for those people who, living in the usual world, and thinking the things they are told to think, and 'believing' those things they are told are true and real, are sure of themselves...
Once upon a time, there was this rock that fell from the skies to the Earth. And people built a square structure around it, and worshiped around it, calling the place, the 'House of God' - al Baetyl.
And they, being followers of the 'one true and only god' - whose 'House' was higher than the natural peaks of the highest mountains, called him 'Al Lah al Jabal.'
And they did that, at least earlier than the second century AD.
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Are they Muslims?
Since Muhammad arrived 6th century AD, possibly they are not although it does seem very strange that they had the same names and words and terms and even concepts, that modern-day Muslims all have - all 2 billion of them.
And for sure, you cannot convince any of them that they have a manufactured religion based on something that came before, nowhere near to where they say 'Muhammad' founded it.
So, the followers of Al Lah al Jabal were in Syria, in Homs - and they worshiped something called by the Romans 'Elagabalus.' And they had a rock, which fell from the sky et cetera.
Ammon Hillman wants to tell you about the problem with Christianity and the 'young boy who was caught naked by the Roman soldiers in the Garden of Gethsemane at 4 am.'
None of these people, not a single one of them, is able to produce anything right here and now today - in the sense of an actual 'god' or anything like that.
It's all, always about stuff from the past.
Hillman says 'neaniskas' means very young boy.
What he is trying to say is that there is a 'secret Gospel of Mark' - not necessarily a forgery like the so-called 'Gospel of Barnabas' is an abject and obvious forgery - but a work that purports to say that these early Christians were in a sex cult inclusive of all kinds of weird and wonderful styles of (sexual) behaviors.
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There is such a text.. Certainly there is.
It's not actually 'disavowed' as existing even by the canonical Gospel and Epistle writers - they categorically say that there are those who 'who have gone wandering after the lusts of the flesh in diverse ways... ...on account of the power and liberty that they were first shown.'
What Ammon doesn't tell you, is that the sense of the same word flexion that is also used in the specific passage - neotes - means a new thing, a new version...
I will leave nothing on the table, soon enough.
You may be wondering, well just what is there supposed for us (me/you) to do about having some faculty of the mind opened up for me, and we seeing all kinds of things, some extra special, some pretty mundane too.
I want to get on a craft, and whiz around with these cool if weird strangers, and see the Galaxies, and, and, and -.
There were two people in the Garden at Gethsemane...
This is Star Wars going on here folks. It is not 'religion.'
But it is not something you want to be taking to all of the human race all at the same time.
There were two people in the Garden at Gethsemane - one slipped out of the Roman soldiers' grasp, and one got killed and died and was buried.
Nobody that you know anywhere on this planet, ever, at any time, has ever explained that passage in the Gospel of Mark, where there was this 'almost naked young boy' at 4 am.
And when the tomb was opened up, or found open at any rate, there was that same young man. 'Who are you looking for?" He asks the women.
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How many of these young people are there? Actually?
How many of you are there?
I mean there's you; we know that.
And now some of you are 'going places' at night, at 4 am, as it were.
LOL
Have you seen yourselves yet?
Wait a minute. Let me see. Do we have some heavy-duty laser canons working on this little white machine...
Give me something now, right?
The youth losing his linen reminded me of the elves and the shoemaker, dobby and his sock, etc. Then, in the wiki page for Secret Mark, "Hans-Martin Schenke...sees the reappearing youth as a spiritual double of Jesus and the stripping of the body as a symbol of the soul being naked." Hmm.
ReplyDeleteOr the youth could have been a flesh and blood kouretic person, I think they're around the place. I await Calvin's upcoming pieces.