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Date Posted: 10:49:49 02/03/06 Fri
Author: Lord Veritas
Subject: The "Gospel" of Philip
In reply to: Lord Veritas 's message, "Rants about the "lost gospels" (another exploration of one of Sheepdog's tangents)" on 21:38:13 08/07/05 Sun

For those who want to read this lost "Gospel" check it out at http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gop.html
It has such brilliant sayings as this:
"Those who sow in winter reap in summer. The winter is the world, the summer the other Aeon (eternal realm). Let us sow in the world that we may reap in the summer. Because of this, it is fitting for us not to pray in the winter. Summer follows winter. But if any man reap in winter he will not actually reap but only pluck out, since it will not provide a harvest for such a person. It is not only [...] that it will [...] come forth, but also on the Sabbath [...] is barren. "
LV: So if winter is the world and we are not allowed to pray in the winter, it would logically follow that we are not allowed to pray in the world. So if we are not allowed to pray in the world, how exactly are we suppose to communicate with God to receive salvation?

"Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal."

LV: So good is not good, and evil is not evil. Gee, that makes perfect sense. This sounds a lot more like New Age or postmodern philosophy than Christian doctrine

And now for some background information:
The Gospel of Philip was written between 180 and 250 A.D. In other words, it was written after all of Christ's apostles were dead and buried. It is basically a collection of primarily Gnostic sayings. Although Wesley Isenburg claims to have linked seventeen of these sayings to Jesus, none of the sources of these sayings have been successfully identified. In other words, no one knows who wrote it. Basically, the Gospel of Philip's only claim to being a divinely inspired work is its name, which, unfortunately, is not nearly enough to make it qualify as scripture.

You will have to do better than this if you want to prove that there are scriptures that are not included in the Bible.

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[> Re: Rants about the "lost gospels" (another exploration of one of Sheepdog's tangents) -- XXXXX, 12:26:54 05/24/08 Sat

>Hello again, Sheepdog,
>You mentioned that there were other texts that did not
>make it into the Bible. Please put all info about
>those here. To help you get started, I suggest you
>tell us how the Gospel of Thomas could have been
>written by Thomas when he was killed more than five
>decades before it was written. Write as much as you
>need to write about the subject here, so that you will
>no longer have to use this as a distraction from the
>salvation doctrine argument, either.
HUH ?

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