“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “Unless you are reborn, you can’t experience God’s kingdom.” – Jesus Christ (John 3:3 FBV) In Buddhism, people are reborn into five realms. There is the earthly realm, the animal realm, the ghost realm, the hell realm, or the heavenly realm. Each transition is a rebirth. When you…
Category: Theology
Theology – what we believe.
Qualifications for Philosophers
I am afraid that any guidance I give you here will be misunderstood unless I first define what I mean by a philosopher. There are at least two kinds of people that are called philosophers, the academic professor of philosophy and the lover of wisdom. To be honest, it is only recently that lovers of…
Ungrounded Speculation
It is interesting, in fact, fascinating, that those who are interested in Gnosticism tend to speculate all over the place. They bring in occult ideas such as alchemy, Kabbalah, and astrology. But their interests and mine are different. I’m in a quest to discover the historic Christianity. I want to understand the early Christian background,…
Christianity the Foundational Myth of Western civilization
You can certainly leave Christianity but it does not leave you. Your liberation from it is delusion. Christ is the way. You can certainly run away, but then you are no longer on the way. – Carl Jung (Red Book) Christianity is the foundational myth of Western civilization. Myth is what provides context and perspective…
Gnostic Christianity Defined
Gnosticism is not a single thing. It is not a belief system at all. Rather, it is an orientation towards religion. So in Gnostic Christianity, the orientation is Gnostic, but the belief system is Christian. In other words, it is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ as taught by Paul, John, Thomas, and Valentinus….