Anonymous
10/29/2025, 5:27:12 AM
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>>24837874
>>24837874
I’ve run out of suitable Jesus paintings for now, but I appreciate your reply as well. I never felt like a Gnostic and I don’t agree with their views on Creation, on Christ’s Incarnation (I will admit, absence of a better formula, that the Council of Chalcedon makes the most sense), or just the general feel of it. Creation was an inherently good thing. As for the Old Testament I know that my views are “eccentric” but I think I have laid out my perspective and argument well enough here. If this thread is still active in the morning I will continue to post.
To me the Crucifixion and Resurrection are somewhat misunderstood by people today because the nature of how people approach and worship the Divine has been irrevocably altered by Christ and what happened. In those days, especially for our forefathers, the typical way of approaching the Divine was through ritual sacrifice. Christ’s Sacrifice, God unto God, was the “ultimate sacrifice.” It answers the equation. It completes the formula and shatters it for all time. There’s no need to do rituals. I would argue we never did, but got lost along the way. The Incarnation brought an end to the powers of these false gods to dictate to us. It’s why they only have power now when people give them such power consciously, out of their free will. Redemption and the conquest of Death are integral to it too, but the realization of the sacrifice formula aspect really opened my eyes to Christ.
>>24837874
I’ve run out of suitable Jesus paintings for now, but I appreciate your reply as well. I never felt like a Gnostic and I don’t agree with their views on Creation, on Christ’s Incarnation (I will admit, absence of a better formula, that the Council of Chalcedon makes the most sense), or just the general feel of it. Creation was an inherently good thing. As for the Old Testament I know that my views are “eccentric” but I think I have laid out my perspective and argument well enough here. If this thread is still active in the morning I will continue to post.
To me the Crucifixion and Resurrection are somewhat misunderstood by people today because the nature of how people approach and worship the Divine has been irrevocably altered by Christ and what happened. In those days, especially for our forefathers, the typical way of approaching the Divine was through ritual sacrifice. Christ’s Sacrifice, God unto God, was the “ultimate sacrifice.” It answers the equation. It completes the formula and shatters it for all time. There’s no need to do rituals. I would argue we never did, but got lost along the way. The Incarnation brought an end to the powers of these false gods to dictate to us. It’s why they only have power now when people give them such power consciously, out of their free will. Redemption and the conquest of Death are integral to it too, but the realization of the sacrifice formula aspect really opened my eyes to Christ.