Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Who Created God? Sophia

The Christian Church became the victors when the Roman Emperor Constantine became a convert (313 A.D.). Victors are the ones who write history. After his conversion he saw the church in complete disarray and divided each thinking they had the truth (like the Christian churches today). He got together a bunch of bishops who were like minded and they poured through the hundreds of sacred text and decided which ones were to be in the Bible. After they compiled their short list he condemned the others and made an edict that those "heretical" books be burned. Once such book is the Apocryphon of John, the secret revelation of John the apostle. The same author who supposedly wrote Revelation, the last book in our modern Bible. Irenaeus condemned this book in 185 AD, so this book was a very early manuscript. Fortunately some people buried these "heretical" books and they were discovered by modern archeologists.

John, the apostle, was being challenged by the Pharisees and it disturbed him. A morphing angel comes to him and pulls back the curtain on creation and reveals who Jehovah God is. John writes:

And when he (Jehovah) saw the creation which surrounds him, and the multitude of the angels around him which had come forth from him, he said to them, 'I am a jealous God, and there is no other God beside me.' But by announcing this he indicated to the angels who attended him that there exists another God. For if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous?

Very interesting point. Then John proceeds to tell us about those other gods. Here is a summary.

Monad, the invisible One - above everything, more than a god, everything exist in him, unsearchable, unnameable, no one existed prior to him to give him a name.

Monad gave thought and she came forth, the first power, Barbelo, the womb of everything, virginal spirit. She requested forethought, indestructibility, truth and he consented.

Barbelo gave thought and Autogenes, the Christ, came forth. He was given authority and truth over everything.

Sophia of the Epinoia emanated from the Christ. Sophia conceived a thought without the consent or consideration of the above spirits. Her thought could not remain idle because of her invincible power and it came forth imperfect without her consort. She called him Yaltabaoth. He became arrogant and only knew his mother and not Monad, Barbelo, Autogenese (the Christ) or any other perfect god. He left his mother's side and created angels and told them 'I am God, and there is no other God besides me'. This grieved Sophia. Yaltabaoth even stole power from her.

Yaltabaoth, aka Jehovah, Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Israel, Muhammad, the god we have been told about created Adam.

This would make a lot of sense. This god was a half-baked idea of Sophia. He is arrogant and imperfect. Sounds just like the God of the Bible. It explains somewhat why the Christ had to come down to fix some things. Because of Constantine we have lost a lot of sacred text which really could tell us a lot more about this time period and we would have a better picture of how these myths of Christ were developed. But am grateful that we live in a time where some parts of that have been revealed.

The infinite regression argument.
So to yank a fundies chain who say there has to be a God because a plane has a designer I can say but who created God? They say no one. He has always existed. I can now reply that is not true. According to the apostle John, God's mother is Sophia.

The Secret Revelation Of John

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