The tomb of Jesus
According to church doctrine, Jesus bodily ascended to heaven. In esoteric and Gnostic Christianity, this has always been a curious and strange idea. A spiritual resurrection, OK! But a resurrection in the flesh is an event many sources of old could not accept. For instance, the writing “The Treatise on the Resurrection” from the Nag Hammadi Library (in the Jung Codex) is illuminating. In the oldest Christianity, the Judaic or Jewish Christianity, one never thought of a resurrection in the flesh.
Lees verder…»The Mary Magdalene Issue
The main argument against acceptance of the discovery of the Talpiot tomb in Jerusalem being the Jesus family tomb is the fact that the names found in there were so common during the first century, that no conclusion can be drawn from it. This is true, but the combination of those names is rather unique. The key is the name of Mariamne.
Lees verder…»Matters at Hand
The year of 2009 promises to be a year of many enjoyable events. On November 1, for instance, will appear Het grote boek der apokiefen (The Great Book of the Apocrypha), a comprehensive work in which virtually all Christian apocryphal and secret writings from the first four centuries have been incorporated. I am happy to see that even in church circles, ever more room is provided for texts that have been hidden for centuries, because they do not agree with the vision of the church in the fourth century. It has become increasingly clear that this vision deviates considerably from what was experienced and felt in the earliest Christian churches.
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