>>15568571Remember how I said we’d get to the point where we either accept that divine motivations are not necessarily the same as human, or we don’t? Well here we are.
Truly a matter of faith (it all comes down to faith, just as it’s always been written).
But the short answer is, I’m not sure.
In Genesis it talks about how we were created physically and THEN given the breath of life (spark of good, divinity, God). In other books, like in the Nag Hammadi libraries, it says that our physical bodies were created by one lower entity and given the breath of God by the true God as a means to save ourselves from, for lack of better term, slavery (hence our duality). I think the latter is probably closer to truth.
To be sure, it took me reading all the gnostic stuff to find my way back to the Bible and believe in its truth… but I’m just a knowledge junkie like that. However to many, gnostic texts can be a dangerous path - easy to be led astray, as it opens you up to the whole pantheon of ethereal existence, instead of just the handbook for life on earth version.
But if you need it, it’s there. I, for one, did need it.
