Anonymous
10/28/2025, 7:37:43 PM
No.24836493
>>24836473
I'd recommend reading the Gospels and the Letters of Paul with a critical and open mind. The only Gospel I'm not really 100% on is Matthew, because it was obviously written for the Torah-observant Judaizers led by Peter and James. The thing you have to understand, though, is that these aren't infallible accounts. They are, more or less, compilations of eyewitness accounts of a particularly important mytho-historical event (maybe THE most important one.)
I'm partial to the Gospels of Thomas and Mary, but I'm skeptical of the more obvious pseudepigraphical Gnostic texts from later in the 2nd century. They were, in my view, wrong and myopic in their desire to reject the material world and see Christ as a purely spiritual entity. It undermines the understanding of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.
I would recommend you read into the writings of Plotinus and Porphyry to understand the True God that Christ points us towards.You have to keep an open mind here and realize that Christ's Incarnation wasn't "just" the fulfillment of the predictions of Hebrew future-seers, but also and (maybe more importantly, for us anyway) the entire breadth of Graeco-Roman philosophy and religion.
I'd recommend reading the Gospels and the Letters of Paul with a critical and open mind. The only Gospel I'm not really 100% on is Matthew, because it was obviously written for the Torah-observant Judaizers led by Peter and James. The thing you have to understand, though, is that these aren't infallible accounts. They are, more or less, compilations of eyewitness accounts of a particularly important mytho-historical event (maybe THE most important one.)
I'm partial to the Gospels of Thomas and Mary, but I'm skeptical of the more obvious pseudepigraphical Gnostic texts from later in the 2nd century. They were, in my view, wrong and myopic in their desire to reject the material world and see Christ as a purely spiritual entity. It undermines the understanding of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.
I would recommend you read into the writings of Plotinus and Porphyry to understand the True God that Christ points us towards.You have to keep an open mind here and realize that Christ's Incarnation wasn't "just" the fulfillment of the predictions of Hebrew future-seers, but also and (maybe more importantly, for us anyway) the entire breadth of Graeco-Roman philosophy and religion.