Commentary, for a Bible thumper
The Dead Sea Scrolls! are not the same thing as the findings at Nag Hammadi. The Gospel of Thomas is also, not included in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Tell me? how is it that the canonized Bible, which was constituted in 325AD, the Old Testament/Tanakh also was not canonized until the end of the first century (they were all individual scrolls before then)…how is it that there are direct quotes from The Book of Enoch and The War Scrolls in the Council of Nicaea Bible?
These quotes come directly from The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are some of the oldest Abrahamic texts in existence.
Jesus did not have a Bible or a Torah, as we conceive of it today! beyond the five Books of Moses, the references to the Torah in scripture, is a catch all term for the separate scrolls attributed to Moses.
For they had not been consolidated yet. He had individual scrolls, which ranged all over the place. Including the scrolls (plural) of The Dead Sea, to which The Essenes are credited-as anthropology suggests both Jesus, John the Baptist and Simon Magus were all members of, specifically the Nazarene Essenes.
Tell me? what was all the talk about a “Den of Vipers” and the father of the Pharisees being the ruler of this world…it ain’t God, and it is plain to see that Jesus knew this!
Jesus was not a cheerleader! for organized religion, if one can’t see this? I don’t know what to tell you, past keep putting your hard earned money in the basket, and hope your preacher doesn’t forget to put in a good word for you to Saint Peter?
How can one be an adherent to Jesus, yet contribute to something he preached against.
Which is theological hierarchy, from the Vatican, to the pulpit.
If you think the Roman Empire ended? go take a look at that city on the outskirts of Rome.
It didn’t, but simply morphed into a crucifix! still holding onto their swords.
Inquisitions, and burning folks at the stake…yeah, sounds like something Jesus would approve of?
The Gospel of Thomas, actually has a lot of evidence behind it; to suggest it is older than the four gospels, known! as the most likely candidate to be the Q document, from which the gospels were written, drawing from the sayings of The Gospel of Thomas.
Study the Essenes, the connections of the formerly mentioned with this sect, research what they believed.
Then study the Pharisees, research what that sect believed, and what they promoted.
Then tell me? who you really think Jesus would have aligned with.
If you conclude the Pharisees, just because it fits your current beliefs of the subject better.
Then I will ask again? why did Jesus criticize them so, from disregarding their rules on the Sabbath, calling them a “Den of Vipers” etc.
How is it? that it seems the Pharisees won out, when the distain of Jesus towards them is so clear!
Why? does modern Christianity lock arms with modern Pharisee-tic ideologies, so completely today.
Maybe? the message was hi-jacked, by the very group Jesus stood up against.
If this is true? what does that make your average modern day Christian.
Waiting for the Third Temple, not thinking far enough to realize, eventually they are going to have a disagreement with their pals?
About, who the Messiah actually is? or will be.
* Furthermore, I’m reading a lot of folks projections on here?
Tell me, are we separate from God? or are we made in his image.
If we are made in his image, do we not have a spark of him in us?
Did God not breathe life into Man? does that breath not connect us to God.
Think about what you are saying, and what you believe!
Did Jesus not say that “the Kingdom of Heaven is as small as a mustard seed” what do you think he was referring to?
Can you think for yourself? or only as far as what your preacher tells you.
No different, from the Pharisees who called Jesus a blasphemer! for challenging their dogma.
Is Elohim not plural? who was God referring to…when he said “if they (Adam+Eve) eat from the Tree they will be as WE are”
No one said! that Gnosticism refers to being a separate entity from God, as another God.
But, to be as God-no longer being yourself!
Do you get it? YOU DON’T EXIST….Only GOD! actually exists.
That is why Jesus is Lord-because he knew, that he was but a vessel! for The Most High.
This is the realization, this is enlightenment, this is Gnosis.



AS always food for thought