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  • God Corp...?
    • Pope Reverend I, BV (Login PRev1)
      Sufi
      Posted Jul 3, 2009 12:23 PM


      The Gnostics picked up on this concept.
      -- They called it the "Pleroma".

      It's a Greek word...
      It means... "fullness".
      -- The word "pleroma" was used 11 times in the NT texts.

      In Colossians 1:19, regarding the Christ, Paul used the word "pleroma" when he said...
      For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him...
      Which has led some to speculate that Paul was, himself, a Gnostic.

      Mondo's speculative comment regarding the possibility that the Judeo-Christian "God" might, in fact, be... "Satan"...
      Was fully developed within framework of Gnostic theology.

      For the Gnostics, the "creator-god" was the "illegitimate" child of Sophia.
      But, ashamed of what she had done, she set him on a throne and hid him in a "cloud".
      Where he "grew up" believing that he was the only entity in existence and so, being "bored"...
      -- He set about creating our Physical Universe and Everything in it.

      Sophia's son, the "Demiurge", is called, "Yaldabaoth".
      As the bastard son of Sophia, Yaldabaoth was perceived as an "abomination"...
      And...
      -- Everything that he created was a "corruption".

      The Demiurge -- Yaldabaoth -- has been connected to and recognized...
      -- As both... Yahweh and Satan.

      Different names for the same entity.
      Apparently...
      It was pretty much a matter of perspective.

      -PRev1-
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