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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Which is why there was a counter-culture belief that Jesus was preaching about a higher god than the one in the Torah. The one in the Torah was thought to be basically a spaz who couldn't do creation correctly and the god of Jesus was more powerful and intelligent. All those texts were destroyed when the Roman church got power.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just in case you didn't know, there was a big cache of gnostic texts found in Nag Hammadi but the discovery got overshadowed by the dead sea scrolls. They were very cool to look into and shed a lot of light on pre-romanized Christianity.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I read The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagel last year. It wasn't as good as The Origin of Satan, also Pagel (and how I found her). I just finished an excellent book on the historicity of Jesus that had a lot of info on the Gnostics.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'll check those out! I find the subject super interesting.