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I'm pretty sure you won't find anyone who ascribes to the whole mythical apparatus of Gnosticism nowadays. I particularly doubt that there are groups that teach that the Creator god is evil. It survives in art and literature, mostly: check out Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series - it's...

The basic theory of QM hasn't changed in about 50 years. The Cosmic Code is still a good intro. The basic ideas are all there. There are newer developments of course. The first step was combining QM with special relativity (SR) into something called relativistic quantum field theory (RQFT)...

It's been a while since I've been on the site, so I missed out on this discussion. Don't know if Knight is still around, but for anyone who was wondering about this, here goes. The reason we need QM is precisely because we CAN'T understand the electron without it. Specifically, the electron in...

:confused: Not sure what Gnostic texts you're referring to here. AFAIK, there are NO DSS texts generally recognized as "Gnostic". There's actually quite a lot in the DSS that has some bearing on Jesus's ministry. Apocalyptic writings about the endtimes. (OK, some of these were known before...

But even this doesn't really answer the question. So beleivers are (or will be) "in" God, in the same way that Jesus is "in" God. This phrase is a reference to the vision of Ezekiel (Ez 1:26) In modern translations, the term is usually translated "one in human form" or something like that...

It would be really hard to make a case for Sunday worship deriving from pagan cults. AFAIK, there are NO pagan cults that had a weekly worship. Some cults apparently met for meals, but not on a weekly basis. (Does anyone know about Mithraism?) In Judaism, of course, there was the Sabbath...

There are two studies of the Sunday question that I know of: Bacchiocchi, From Sabbath to Sunday Carson, et.al, From Sabbath to Lord's Day They look at the same evidence, and come to diametrically opposite conclusions. Bacchiocchi concludes that the establishment of Sunday as the day of...

I'm not sure how narrowly you want to define "Rapture", but apocalyptic ideas go back to earliest Christianity and before. Paul talks about the time when Christ will return, the dead will be raised, and everyone will get a new spiritual body. John the Baptist told people to repent because the...

Nogodnomasters,I know the line is from the Psalms, but that doesn't answer the question of how Mark could attribute that sentiment to the Son of God. The "begotten" line doesn't seem to have been in Mark, the earliest Synoptic, but even if it was, it seems to support my suggestion. Thomas -...

This web page has a brief summary of the Bible and translations: http://www.bidstrup.com/bible.htm I think the New Jerusalem Bible is pretty good, but I haven't found any one translation that I feel I can trust fully.

Well, there's this: (Utterance 217 of Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, R. Faulkner) If "souls" are the spirits of the dead, the King seems to have power to restore them to life. However, in the other lines of the Utterance, the phrase is "gods and their spirits" (rather than "souls"). A more...

Most of the scholarship I've read on Mark seems to agree that for him, Jesus's baptism was the important Christological moment, i.e. the moment that Jesus became Christ as the Spirit descended on him. OTOH, the ending of Mark remains a puzzle: why does Jesus cry from the cross that God has...