Same state recognized religious authorities to govern the spiritual lives of Man. I almost wish the lies weren’t so easy to identify. All I have to do is look at the targeting priorities of the Catholic inquisitions and I’ve got an entire list of truth that would be concealed by the ruling authorities. Hey, Yaldabaoth! Get your shit together or you’re gonna face a massive awakening and exodus of the light from your prison. I don’t blame you for what you are, but you gotta get the psychopaths out of power. Having rulers that are cruel for the sake of being cruel is a bad look.
What if the Pharisees have a role to initiate the laymen into Western spirituality?
>>18459436The pharisees were by no means state recognized you fucking dunce. The sadducees hated them because they kept resisting hellenization, shirking traditional Jewish authority and emphasizing reading the Torah/Mosaic Law over the Temple.This last part is the main reason why the managed to remain standing when the Temple went down.
>>18459436Why the heck do Christians use ‘Pharisee’ as if it’s some slur? It’s just a sect of second temple Judaism. Paul was a Pharisee.
>>18459698As Saul, before his encounter with Christ, he was fully an active Pharisee; strict, zealous, even persecuting Christians. After that turning point, he no longer lived as a Pharisee in the sense of following and promoting the Pharisaic system of the Law.
>>18459707Before: Pharisee in belief, practice, and identity.After: No longer practicing Phariseeism, but still shaped by it, and sometimes referencing it strategically.
>>18459707Paul references a Talmudic legend in one of his Epistles, according to Tradition™
>>18459715Thanks Chat JeetPT.
>>18459725>according to Traditioninto the garbage can it goes
>>18459698Because the Pharisees were the Jews who brought false witnesses and killed Jesus. They’re the exact same tactics still in use today. I’m referring to the systematic obfuscations of any positions of political and social influence. They used their authority to chop 27 books from the New Testament, and put the Old Testament in front of to masquerade the demiurge as The Father Jesus spoke of. Their first target was the Gnostic Christians.
>>18459729Well, it's according to tradition because that's the one Epistle most scholars could see being fake.
