https://blog.speculist.com/archeology/better-than-the-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://blog.speculist.com/archeology/better-than-the-1.html#comment-1600 Kathy Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:29:42 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=776#comment-1600 I agree, Phil, that this text is more likely a precursor to the Gnostic cults than it is a precursor to Christianity. Perhaps the sources in this article don’t know the difference between Christianity and Gnosticism. The Hebrews, from which Christians trace their roots, were monotheistic by 1500 B.C.E., long before this document appeared.

]]> https://blog.speculist.com/archeology/better-than-the-1.html#comment-1599 Micah Glasser Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:37:17 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=776#comment-1599 One of the charges for which Socrates was executed for was atheism – yet really he was probably a monotheist. Almost all of the Greek philosophers believed that the fundamental principle governing the Cosmos was mind (nous). In the case of these philosophers the charge of atheism usually meant that they had denied the existence of the anthropomorphic pantheon of gods in favor of a God who absolute mind/spirit.

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