Category: Gnostic Scriptures

  • What Do the Lost Gospels Have to Teach?

    What Do the Lost Gospels Have to Teach?

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    Richard Smoley
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    Over the last century, a number of previously lost and unknown texts have come to light and illumined the origins of the main religions of the West. The most famous include the Nag Hammadi library, unearthed in Egypt in 1945, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in Israel in 1947. The Gospel of Judas is…

  • Rescuing the Bible from Literalism

    Rescuing the Bible from Literalism

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    Richard Smoley
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    “The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are only one form, and not always the most important. This insight can be hard to accept in the positivist world of mainstream Western thought. In…