An Ancient Prayer of Gratitude for the ‘Divine Womb’
Take in, if you can, the depth of this Divinity, and the way it is expressed. Notice how it proposes that Divinity itself is characterized primarily by growth.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2022-04-27T02:01:13-04:00April 27th, 2022|Tags: Concepts of God, Gender Issues, Gratitude, Nag Hammadi, Prayer of Thanksgiving|
Take in, if you can, the depth of this Divinity, and the way it is expressed. Notice how it proposes that Divinity itself is characterized primarily by growth.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-11-30T23:33:04-05:00December 1st, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Demiurge, Dr. James McGrath, Mandaeans, Plato|
"When you come to the point where you encounter powers that are antithetical to God, then the question of how this could have happened becomes a pressing one." An Interview with Dr. James McGrath.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2023-11-22T03:36:56-05:00November 24th, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Gospel of John, Gospel of Truth, Meaning of Life|
When I would look across the car, and see the fierce confidence of a dancer, I would find myself silently saying “I am in you and you are in me.”
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-12-06T06:45:10-05:00November 3rd, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Demiurge, Marcion, Material World, Plato|
When you have a God that is very different, you get very different human possibilities... An Interview with Dr. Stephen A. Cooper
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-12-06T06:46:02-05:00October 13th, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Demiurge, Marcion, Secret Revelation of John|
Using the myth of the demiurge, the author of the Secret Revelation of John shows why humans feel the kind of pain and sorrow that God never inflicted on them.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-12-06T06:45:19-05:00October 6th, 2021|Tags: Ancient Writings, Concepts of God, Early Christian Communities, Material World|
The modern world is so impoverished in its ideas. We have such a narrow range of ways of responding to situations and issues compared to all the ideas that people had before. An interview with Dr. Jason BeDuhn.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:08:33-05:00November 1st, 2018|Tags: Concepts of God, Religious Boundaries|
We simply relate to God and God’s role on earth differently, even though we read the same scriptures and worship what we think of as the same God.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:08:59-05:00September 1st, 2018|Tags: Concepts of God, Extracanonical Texts, Jesus|
These ancient books and gospels, written by people who wanted to understand and follow Jesus after he was gone, fill in many of the gaps from what we find in the New Testament writings and church teachings.