Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cylixd.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!mcnc!akgua!akgub!cylixd!dave
From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Nag Hammadi Library
Message-ID: <774@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 11:31:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cylixd.774
Posted: Fri Feb  7 11:31:39 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Feb-86 05:53:06 EST
Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Distribution: na
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
Lines: 22


In article <496@tekcrl.UUCP> daveh@tekcrl.UUCP (Dave Hatcher) writes:
>  Quote from "The Nag Hammadi Library" page 471 "The Gospel of Mary"
>
>	..."What is the sin of the world?" The Savior
>	said, "There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do
>	the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is 
>	called sin. That is why the Good came into your midst, to the
>	essence of every nature, in order to restore it to its root."
>
> I have recently been reading where Jesus spent his youth in Asia,
> and the passage above sure sounds like there,s some Eastern thought
> in it.

Sounds like classical Gnosticism as well. As to Jesus' youth in Asia:
Christians are almost universally in disagreement; I know of no
Christian who generally supports euthanasia. :-)

(Forget I posted it...)

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Kirby    ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)