what was John smoking?
>>18218655Is god trolling?>Everyone that hates living will live foreverKek, what a scumbag
You need some discernment. What it's saying that if you follow Jesus you're generally going to have a better life & God's blessing compared to a worldly life. Think of some millionare who gets super rich and famous and then kills himself by drug overdose. That's like a life that seemed to be great but then went down the toilet. It is that type of idea.
>>18218655Maybe he was a troll making a parody of christians but it backfired? He wanted to make fun of them but they liked what he wrote and took it as the words of God?
>>18218655John is the deepest Gospel of the fourThat is why he is only read at the most poignant moments in the liturgical year
>>18218655Not cool John.Not buying his book.
>>18218799Checked
>>18218809John introduced Platonist and Heraclitean ideas (ie Logos) into the life and teachings of the Christ. He is to thank for making a desert rabble rouser into a philosopher.
>>18219053really good shit mon. really good shit.
>>18219058The Heraclitan Logos is just an underlying rationality or cosmic justice and has nothing to do with the Logos in John, which is more in line (I'd argue exactly the same) as Philo's Logos, which is esentially God'd first-born ideal "heavenly" man that he used to create the universe.
>>18218655gnosticism
>>18220488absolutely, NT is just hardcore dualism, people dropped it bc they don't like it but boohoo
>>18218655He wasn't smoking anything. Christianity is concerned with salvation in heaven, i.e. not of this world. He is saying you should be less concerned with this material existence and should prepare your soul for the next world.
>>18218655Essentially: schizophreniaIn my studies of occultism, I was doing everything, from crowley to semening angles and lemons, and it dawned on me that whenever I did dark stuff, my mood and mental condition improved, whereas when I did stuff "of the light" shit went south badly.You need not believe me, believe the hundreds of studies that correlate religiosity with low iq.Well, guess what, it's because they spiritually darken themselves, try.>But what do I do.Basic beginner stuff, like book stuff, or even going to a Watain concert.
>>18220664>I dona't understand.Essentially: Darkness is good for you, just like coffee
>>18220664>I felt good larping I think you are the low iq religious person you condemn
>>18218809The Gospel of John at this point is the only part of the Bible I trust as a Christian. Everything else is either literally Jewish or Judaized or Jewish-apologetic, a sick attempt to pervert and twist the words of Christ to be pro-Israel, when in fact he was renouncing the god of the Jews and Jewish religious law. The god of Christ and the god of the old testament are not the same.
>>18220877The Gospel of John is essentially a Platonist text inserted into an ancient book of Hebrew folklore so you aren’t wrong.
>>18220877>>18220881Read two Gods in heaven by Schäfer.
>>18220877You're a parody
>>18222463Of what? Make an argument.
>>18218655Christians love the idea of tormenting people they don't like
I LOVE MY LIFE!I LOVE MY LIFE!!I LOVE MY LIFE!!!
