Gnostics Vs Divine Son

Throughout the course of humanity’s history many questions have risen that have posed a problem to us as a species. Questions such as the following: What is the proper relationship between individuals and society? What is beauty, and why is it important? Is there purpose in human existence?, and many others have caused enough trouble in humanity’s short existence on the earth to cause a near identity crisis. However, all of these questions fall under the shadow of the main question that has been asked since the creation of Adam- “What exactly is the real relationship and purpose of humanity towards the divine?”

Some believe in a higher power, a God, who created all things and brought this life we

The symbolic world views of how the world was created can be described through the cosmogonies of Genesis and the Laws of Manu. It is through these theories that one can learn how the universe came into existence. Many individuals consider a certain religion to be their ultimate realm of reality, and it is within religion that these symbolic world views come into play. The cosmogony of Genesis began along a sacred history of time where god created merely by speaking. In contrast, the Laws of Manu involve creation through thought. In Genesis, there is only one god and in Laws of Manu there is more than one god. Both cosmogonies have many similarities as they have

Gnostics believed one good God created “nature,” or the spiritual world, while another evil God created “matter,” or the physical world. To them, every part of the physical world is evil. This differs from what Augustine says about good and evil in Book 7 of Confessions. He believes in just one God, who created everything, including all matter, and that everything God created is good. He completely disagreed that there is a God who creates evil in the world.

Kennedy wants to avoid Lewis’ Christian and spiritual logic, because he is a humanist. Lewis is portraying logic to Kennedy about how Jesus is God, and Kennedy wants proof beyond faith to that. So he wants “real” proof, and not logic through faith.

While Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita is clear about the cosmic connections of humanity, Yahweh in The Book of Job isn’t quite as straightforward. However, in Yahweh’s theophany, there are many implications that the most divine aspect to humanity is the connection with the rest of the universe and the life in it. While suffering is a part of life, it pales in comparison with the grand scale of life and the divine connection to it all. In both the Bhagavad-Gita and The Book of Job, this is the message delivered in the theophany speeches. The connection of all life in the Bhagavad-Gita is very clearly shown by Krishna, while the connection as

This G*d is personal with his chosen people. The God of Judaism is loving, righteous, and merciful in all his works regarding his chosen people, the Jews who he called Israel. There is some documented confusion regarding God and humanity. One account of creation in Genesis portrays a superior God who created the world in six days systematically and harmoniously while other biblical text portray a God apart from forces of nature with no control over them. In the beginning of both narratives, there are natural forces of water that were already in existence prior to creation (Krell, 3). Judaism universally rejects the declaration in the New Testament that "Jesus is the son of God". "The corruption of Christianity, according to Judaism, is the belief that Jesus the only begotten Son of God. In Judaism, Jesus is viewed as a Jew who practiced and taught in harmony with the Jewish sects of that day” (Caner & Hinderson, 280). After the death of Jesus, it is believed that he was transformed into a messianic savior by the apostle Paul. According to Judaism, Christianity created a second coming of Jesus because he did not fulfill the messianic prophecies in his first coming and thus was not the messiah nor the Son of God.

· Jesus knew His divinity. 'That He had come from God,' means pre-existence, voluntary incarnation, an eternal divine nature,

In the eighteenth century a European power conquered the Thanatosian plains and included the region as two separately-administered colonies, Reverentia and Agnostica. Reverentia was located in the eastern half of the plain and functioned as the manufacturing and urban trading center of the Thanatosian region. Agnostica was located in the western half of the plains and enjoyed fertile land and abundant mineral resources. Agnostica often exported its raw materials into Reverentia for refining, processing, and sale. In 1919, approximately 30 percent of the population in Agnostica was ethnic Reverentian.

In Cathar texts, the terms "Good Men" (Bons Hommes) or "Good Christians" are the common terms of self-identification . The belief that two Gods existed, one being good and the other evil, was central to Cathars. The God of the New Testament, creator of the spiritual realm, was obviously the good God. In contrast, the God of the Old Testament was evil since he is presented as the creator of the physical world, whom many Cathars and particularly their persecutors, identified as

Skeptics of Trinity theology perceive it as tritheism because of the term three persons in one. Though Wesley did use person terminology, he strongly emphasized that God was "three in one being, one in power, eternally God"(Oden,2012,p.56). The different parts of eternally God are distinguishable as Father, Son and Spirit. Wesley eludes to this as the persons can be distinguished but not separated, and this is the baptism in which we have been baptized (Oden,2012,p.56). This writer would not attempt to challenge Wesley's teaching on tri-unity but to characterize The Trinity teaching as one person with different manifestations existing in unity, and working in harmony. For it is in this change in terminology that can be considered in line with

Cathar theology was essentially Gnostic in nature — they believed that there were two "gods" — one malevolent and one good. The former was in charge of all visible and material things and was held responsible for all the atrocities in the Old Testament. The benevolent god, on the other hand, was the one the Cathars worshipped and was responsible for the message of Jesus. Accordingly, they made every effort to follow the teachings of Jesus as closely as

The Christian understanding of God differs from other world religions' conceptions mainly because of their belief in the doctrine of the Trinity. Christians believe that God is the Father, the Son, and The Holy Spirit although "the doctrine of the Trinity is not explicitly spelled out in the Bible" (Created for Community pg. 16), the doctrine is the result of the experiences of the early Christians proving that the one God, the creator was the Father, Jesus was the Lord but he was not the Father but the Son, and the godly presence around them was The Holy Spirit. Although there is a trinity, Christians believe there is still one God, "one God [Christians worship] in trinity and trinity and unity neither confusing the persons nor dividing the

The Gnostics regarded all matter as evil so out of that came most of their doctrines. They believed that there was no way God could possess a body because the idea of God becoming human was so repulsing to them. Irenaeus therefore stressed the importance of the incarnation in response to the Gnostics. Irenaeus

The Catholic Church as a doctrine in particular also has its stand in this mystery. The church in relation to the term trinity believes that there is unity in the three Gods but they exist distinctly from each other. This means there are no three Gods but on God in different forms. The term begotten is used to describe God the son that is Jesus the term means like producing an offspring or making another breed of the original. Thus Jesus adopts the office by being begotten by the God the father. Spirit of God is the third nature of God in the trinity. He precedes the trinity by a way of spirit rather than generation