Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00101)

With some editing, here is a message I posted to my Gnostic Group. It may have some relevance, or muddy the waters thoroughly. Cheers!

I, for one, unequivocally, gave up any belief in a personal, or person named, Jesus (Yahshua, etc.) when I finally explored the "Old Testament" and gave up on Jehovah as the god who created us. Maybe I just cut the "Gordian Knot," but there is just no evidence for either "person" that can convince me. The history of what's known as the "Bible Period" is terminally confused and no one on earth or in the heavens (shaymayim) can decipher it satisfactorily. A. B. Kuhn, Carlo Suares, and Theosophy, and a few others, are on the right track, but I think as Nietzsche said, "The first and last Christian died on the cross." So whatever or whoever the myth called Jesus was, he was nothing more than another criminal crucified by Rome if he lived at all. Paul, called "The Apostle," had fevered, guilt-ridden visions that created (Roman) Christendom and the "New Testament." 

If you disagree with the way I explained it, see the quotation below.
Andrew W. Smith
Master Sergeant, USA/USAF (Ret.)
"Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still." --- T.S.Eliot

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