and gnosticism was just 93iq jewish attempts of understanding plato > with the discovery of the nag hammadi gnostic library in the 1940's, it became clear that the early unorthodox sect known as the "gnostics" did not believe in the deity of jesus christ. nor did they really believe in his humanity either. they believed he was a "guiding spirit" sent to earth by the "true god" (not the yhwh of the old testament, incidently, whom they considered to be a blind, insane angel who created the material world against sophia's or "wisdom" i.e. the true god's will). jesus' mission according to the gnostics, was to impart special knowledge or "gnosis" to spirits trapped in this material world seeking release. thus, jesus never died on the cross, was never resurrected, was not god, nor was he human. nag hammadi crucified any christian/yeshua legitimacy. complementing that was the therapeuts celebrating the pentateuch decades to a century before jesus was born. and all of that is simply irrelevant because of the elephantine papyri, which definitively proved moses as fake, jews in northern egypt in the 4th century bce had never even heard of the guy, nor of the most basic tenets of the torah. so if jesus' father is not god, he simply becomes fake by necessity. you can argue he was once a living person, but the guy wasnt god, and thats why they had to rewrite the ending of mark three centuries later, because originally he wasnt supposed to be god, but the messiah (ben david). what he actually was was the messiah ben yosef, the messiah which jews were suppoded to reject, which is kind of implied by the fact his real name was yeshua ben yosef. but christianity is predicated on an ignorance of history and culture, which is why the bible wasnt even accessible to the public for some 1600 years.
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