Gnostic Informant

Originally Aired on Mar 12, 2022 Dr. Robert M. Price: https://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/

Dr. Robert M. Price: https://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/ The Pharisees The most important of the three were the Pharisees because they are the spiritual fathers of modern Judaism. Their main distinguishing characteristic was a belief in an Oral Law that God gave to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah. The Torah, or Written Law, was akin to the U.S. Constitution in the sense that it set down a series of laws that were open to interpretation. The Pharisees believed that God also gave Moses the knowledge of what these laws meant and how they should be applied. This oral tradition was codified and written down roughly three centuries later in what is known as the Talmud. The Pharisees also maintained that an after-life existed, and that God punished the wicked and rewarded the righteous in the world to come. They also believed in a messiah who would herald an era of world peace. Pharisees were in a sense blue-collar Jews who adhered to the tenets developed after the destruction of the Temple; that is, such things as individual prayer and assembly in synagogues. They accepted Hellenization and Platonist ideas. The Sadducees The Sadducees were elitists who wanted to maintain the priestly caste who adhered to strict Torah Observance. They were thought to be the Sons of Zadok & Aaron, the Levites and Priestly class. The Sadducees rejected the idea of the Oral Law and insisted on a literal interpretation of the Written Law; consequently, they did not believe in a bodily resurrection, since it is not mentioned in the Torah. The focus of Sadducee life was rituals associated with the Temple. The Sadducees disappeared around 70 A.D., after the destruction of the Second Temple. None of the writings of the Sadducees has survived, so the little we know about them comes from their Pharisaic opponents. These two “parties” served in the Great Sanhedrin, a kind of Jewish Supreme Court made up of 71 members whose responsibility was to interpret civil and religious laws. The Essenes A third faction, the Essenes, emerged out of disgust with the other two. This sect believed the others had corrupted the city and the Temple. They moved out of Jerusalem and lived a monastic life in the desert, adopting strict dietary laws and a commitment to celibacy. The Essenes are particularly interesting to scholars because they are believed to be an offshoot of the group that lived in Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd stumbled into a cave containing various ancient artifacts and jars containing manuscripts describing the beliefs of the sect and events of the time. The most important documents, often only parchment fragments that had to be meticulously restored, were the earliest known copies of the Old Testament. The similarity of the substance of the material found in the scrolls to that in the modern scriptures has confirmed the authenticity of the Bible used today. #Pharisees #Sadducees #Essenes #RobertMPrice #GnosticInformant

Originally Aired Mar 4, 2022 Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism. His books and articles have received international attention. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history, he specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman empire. He is also a published expert in the modern philosophy of naturalism as a worldview. He is the author of On the Historicity of Jesus, Proving History, Sense and Goodness without God, The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire, Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Not the Impossible Faith, Why I Am Not a Christian, Jesus from Outer Space, and Hitler Homer Bible Christ. He is also a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, Christianity Is Not Great, and Resurrection: Faith or Fact, as well as copious other work in history and philosophy, online and in print. He is currently working on several projects, from consulting on the CHRESTUS app for iOS and Android, to teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology. He is also regularly blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, and social issues, and sometimes on his military service or polyamory. To learn more about Dr. Carrier and his work see link below: https://www.richardcarrier.info/

Originally Aired Feb 21, 2022 Due to a Copyright issue, the Friedrich Nietzsche recording was clipped out. For Context, we used: "The Anti-Christ" Section 5: We should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these instincts—the strong man as the typical reprobate, the “outcast among men.” Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self-preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. The most lamentable example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed that his intellect had been destroyed by original sin, whereas it was actually destroyed by Christianity!— Dr. Robert M. Price is a 2x PhD Scholar in New Testament and Theology. ) is an American New Testament scholar. His most notable stance is arguing in favor of the Christ myth theory — the claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus. https://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/ A former Baptist minister, Price was a fellow of the Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who studied the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and a member of the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. The Book by Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou: https://www.amazon.com/God-Anatomy-Fr... An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male. #God #RobertMPrice #GnosticInformant

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Originally Aired: Jan 18, 2022 Dr. Robert M. Price (2x PhD) joins me to discuss which events and characters in the Bible are grounded in history and which are Myth. More from Robert M. Price: https://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/

Originally Aired: Jan 13, 2022 Was Jesus of Nazareth a Cynic? Dr. Robert M. Price joins me to discuss the life of Diogenes of Sinope, contemporary of Plato. We break down how much Cynic Philosophy influences early Christian thought. Dr. Robert Price: http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/

Mark 14:51 Καὶ νεανίσκος τις συνηκολούθει αὐτῷ περιβεβλημένος σινδόνα ἐπὶ γυμνοῦ, καὶ κρατοῦσιν αὐτόν· A young boy was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. Text we are referring to: https://biblehub.com/text/mark/14-51.htm Subscribe to Dr. Ammon Hillman: @ladybabylon666

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