Why did we stop inventing gods?

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This.
Basically what I, and several others above have also said.

They stop "inventing" gods centuries ago, and they just reinterpret the same monotheistic Abrahamic god different ways.

And that's also what the OP is doing: demanding that we go back to some gnostic interpretation of the same god already worshipped by Christians and Jews.

whether you create Gods on the outside (orthodox christians, jews, muslims) on on the inside (gnostics), it is all even to me.
the important thing:
after dead ther is no God
there is only Goodbye
you take it with pride or not

Well, GnosticBishop also seems to have introduced an interpretation of his own...

... one which apparently obligates him to insert childish ad hominem insults at the end of most of his posts...

Regardless, I fail to see what this interpretation (even the non-insulting kind) has to offer which hasn't been said with greater rigour and elegance by Buddhism... several centures prior to the 2nd century CE invention of Gnostic Christianity...

I see little separation between religious theologies and political philosophies. They are both seeking or preaching for the best rules and laws to live life by. Both religions and political systems are designed for social manipulation and control and as such, all people should have a healthy disrespect for them.

Both systems are an insult to man's freedom and the least f each we must suffer the better.

Secular law and not religious laws are followed by most in the West because secular law is less flawed and better written than what any god has given us.



All religions have pagan roots. If Christianity and Islam had not grown themselves by the sword instead of good deeds, they would still be considered pagan.



Yes to your first and I cannot answer your last without more details.



Of course not. They fear god.

Gnostic Christians do not see themselves as deities. We do see the god I am a person. Most just do not understand how we are using that title.

Let me explain using Christian and Jewish myths.

This Gnostic Christian’s apology for calling myself God.

Adam and Eve became as Gods when they gained a moral sense and no longer had their mind cut off from intelligent thought. As our primordial ancestors, we inherit that same trait even though Christianity wrongly thinks that to be evil and a fall. Retaining dominion over the earth, humans never revoked this inherited trait of a moral sense, --- and the right for man to judge himself. Jesus highlights this when he took the seat of judgement at God’s right hand.

When I use terms like “I am God”, or “you are God”, I am not speaking of the traditional miracle working God of scriptures and myths. He does not exist as far as we can know as he has never made an appearance to prove his reality.

What I am trying to convey to you by saying that you are a God in your own right is to be master of yourself and you need not be a sheep. You can, as Jesus says, pick up your burdens and responsibilities for your sins and follow his mind set. Be a shepherd. Lead by example.

What I am trying to convey is that the only God you can ever know is the good you find within yourself. It's your ideal of God and of the Jesus or Christ mind. That is quite different from me or someone thinking they are the traditional creator God, or thinking that they are more than anyone else. Both Jesus and the Christ in these myths are for equality. Not the misogyny that we presently enjoy. That is another topic though. We are to be co-equal with Jesus.

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Jesus would explain this concept as one just seeing that they have joined God’s Divine Council by embracing his own Christ mind. Or better said, as this is the more eastern Jesus, we activate our pineal gland and open our third eye.

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbes ... r_embedded



We do not believe in anything that has to do with the supernatural and that is why we do not put any gods above man.


Martin Luther.
“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.”

Gnostic Christians, as free thinkers, put logic and reason above faith and all fantasy. We agree with Martin Luther in that those attributes are the enemy of faith as faith is not wanting to face reality.



Thanks is good. Praying is a waste of time. Why should a people pray for what they are willing to pay for?

there is no evidence for a creator.

Again, and this is a literal question, why are you considered a branch of Christianity?

Gnostic Christianity

there is no evidence for a creator.

Again, and this is a literal question, why are you considered a branch of Christianity?

Those who think we are a branch of Christianity are wrong.

If we were, then it is to those who think we are to explain why Christianity decimated us and burned most of our scriptures.

If you think we are a branch of Christianity, then show why you think Christianity would chop off one of it's own religion and call us heretics.

We call Yahweh a vile demiurge so saying we follow such a god is foolish.

Regards
DL

Then, you might be considered Luciferians.

This sounds like the general line of discussion, in which negative qualities are attributed to the Abrahamic God, such as he is jealous, vengeful, and racist.

Lucifer is said to have illumined mankind, in the Garden, with the ability to disobey -- to rebel, against Yahweh's tyranny?