The Daily Anarcho-Stack. ChurchStack Vol 2.: Why I am a Gnostic Christian.

I have been a Gnostic now longer than I have been a Southern Baptist.

It has been almost 20 years since I have delved into Gnosticism. It feels strange to say that but I have not regretted my decision to do so. I had some dancing around historical Christianity between 2000 and 2003 but only in terms of Orthodoxy. Getting a book from a friend on the History of Christianity in 2000. Seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls physically in 2003. And questioning why Christianity had so many Schisms in its history.

Between 2003 and 2006, I checked out or bought anything and everything that was all about Christianity in the first three centuries A.D. Unfortunately, a lot of the books are lost, ruined, or water damaged. I do have a CD that has files I started saving in 2006. And I heard about the Gospel of Judas on NPR in 2006. When NPR was actually great to listen to. Accessing the Nag Hammad’i Library here: (The Gnosis Archive) was a game changer and allowed me to read al sorts of texts as well as forming what type of “bible” I would have like to have as if I was student myself.

Now, I am trying to finish my “bible” and I may never finish it. I am not sure how well it will sell as it contains information found elsewhere. I would gather 90% of the “bible” is not of original works and are publicly available to everyone. However, it has a flow as if you read The New Testament only with the added books by various authors from other philosophies that have a Gnostic “flavor” to them. Below is a video by Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, who provided commentary on the Gospel of Judas above and explains what Gnosticism is (to his own scholarly view) and what it means now. It is still a hotly debated topic in various circles and I do not think it will be resolved anytime soon.

In Her (Mary of Magdala’s) Name,

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