tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post115026384932680542..comments2024-01-03T07:56:32.311-05:00Comments on quaker oats live: gospel of mary magdaleneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488876505679035140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1158189915822006872006-09-13T19:25:00.000-04:002006-09-13T19:25:00.000-04:00I think ... the idea of sin as evil and a separate...I think ... the idea of sin as evil and a separate force, is an innovation in Christianity, brought by the increase of Greek and Roman ideas as Jesus' life was translated and interpreted. The notion of original sin in Judaism, according to a number of writers, Harold Bloom being one of them, is that sin is about acts which separate us. It is very like the notion of sin I was raised to understand in a Hicksite meeting, before we joined with a Wilberite meeting. That we all sin, or have the potential to sin, is not, in this understanding, because we are born to corruption, in the definition of corruption as evil, but that healthy corruption which is part of the consumption of life. To eat a thing, means another has not eaten that, and so we must atone, atone by acts of understanding, planting and sharing, and we are separately called to forgive those who consume or use that which we don't have. These acts of atonement and forgiveness are separate and not dependent on each other.<BR/><BR/>I think what is canonical often speaks to the growth of a human institution, which came to oppress Yeshua (Jesus') own tribe and likely came to overwrite much of his ministry. <BR/><BR/>My wife is Catholic. She is also an attorney, born to defend, a sort of American Irish Catholic Horace Rumpole... destined to defend when she first heard the story of Judas. "I new there was something wrong ... it didn't fit, I was sure he was framed." Well, when a nearly complete text of the gospel of Judas was discovered, she was overjoyed, buoyant for weeks. By the way, her comment on my faith is... "No, I don't want to go to meeting, Lor, if I am not doing anything I might as well work!"<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/>and adding thee to my links<BR/>lorLorcanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208822060675734892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1158101656331603702006-09-12T18:54:00.000-04:002006-09-12T18:54:00.000-04:00Couple things. You just came over & said howdy on ...Couple things. You just came over & said howdy on my blog. & I'm wondering if you and friendly skripture study would enhance one another, though I feel like the odd duck on that one at the moment...<BR/><BR/>Sin, 'problem of evil,' etc. One of those paradoxical nonproblems that truly puzzle us. Two thoughts:<BR/><BR/>Julian of Norwich. Read much by her?<BR/><BR/>Ursula Le Guin, specifically _The Lathe of Heaven_. (If that first page looks way too poetical, it is, but you can skip it. She ends up... well much like the old Jewish saying, that you can have justice, or you can have the world continue, but if you insist on the world being ideal, it can't endure. But there's much more than "ending up" there.)forresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03214745625847174676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19785125.post-1150948544659117482006-06-21T23:55:00.000-04:002006-06-21T23:55:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Liz in the Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535396346855135995noreply@blogger.com