All that can and is said of all Gods is speculative by nature as none of it is provable. To state that God exists cannot be a true statement unless one has a God to show. This is irrefutable as it can be shown that all Gods are based on ancient myths and stories. They are always to remain mysterious.
All religions are based on myths, legends and hope in an afterlife that unfortunately turned to literal belief, — and this one issue created the war against free thought that led to the purge of many cults that did not want to read literally and to the Inquisition and the Dark Ages. It ended the Mystery Schools.
Literalists cannot help but be wrong unless they rely on blind faith and that faith of fools has pushed Christians and Muslims to kill many due to this blind faith mind set. Christians will kill again, — just like Islam is doing today thanks to literal reading, — given the chance.
Christian literalist won against free thinking religions thanks to Constantine’s support — but they cannot win today thanks to an intelligent population who are not superstitious nor as gullible as in past times and do not believe in fantasy, miracles and magic.
I take it by “Secret Truth”, you meant that the secret is that it isn’t Truth (since obviously, to anyone who knows much of anything real, it is mostly false)?
What do you refer to with your (it). Your message is not clear enough for me to comment.
If you mean that your bible is a myth and thus false in terms of truth then yes, that is our secret truth about all scriptures and Gods.
No one has an exclusive right to God. He is not thought by most to be that puny.
That is why I am a Gnostic Christian and Universalist. My God get’s all the souls he created perfect.
From your book Buddy.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
I think your version of God has him sending the majority of us perfect souls to hell does he not?
That seems to make God a loser in terms of a creator. Not too good on that old production line.
Thought and knowledge is good if allowed to be used. Many religions do not like people who think though. They want sheep, not goats. Goats are too Gnostic for most religions as they prefer faith. The desire to not know the truth.
Faith v/s Reason
Faith is a way for you to quit using your “God given” power of Reason and Logic, so you will believe doctrines that moral men reject as immoral.
The God of the OT says…“Come now, and let us reason together,” [Isaiah 1:18]
How can you reason with God when you throw away reason?
Religions, especially Christianity reply.
“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”
Martin Luther “
This puts the rest of us in a position where reasoning with theist becomes impossible.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Literalism is an evil practice that hides the true messages of myths. You cannot show our friends that they are wrong through their faith colored glasses. Their faith also plugs their ears.
There is a huge difference between Gnostic Christians and our unruly offspring, Catholicism, that got uppity the moment Constantine bought them. We Gnostic Christians think we were the first Christians as Catholic means universal and Gnostic Christians are Universalists while the Catholics and Christianity invented the concept of heel that Christianity learned to use quite well. Remember the indulgences issue that split the church?
The child religion turned on the parent religion and tried to rid the world of free thinkers but failed. Gnostic Christians remembered their Jewish roots while Constantine and Rome became the root of what the West calls Christianity.
The Jesus Gnostic Christians know is a freedom fighter while the Christian Jesus is a Roman boot licker. Rome of course favors the Roman ass kissing Jesus and not the freedom loving Gnostic Christian Jesus.
so much in the word.which came in the beginning.
can we have reason for faith, apart from the miracles, and the need for them to excorcise the fear,that the lack of faith would return to a similar condition as existed at the turn of the first millenium,but can we have faith in that reason?
