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To: O'Hara who wrote (14798)	5/2/1998 1:10:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 39621

Shalom, you asked me why I don't go to the Bible and study Jesus that way. I don't do that because I don't really believe there is very much of Jesus in the Bible. I think much of what he had to say has been totally distorted by men who came after him, for their own purposes. Here, for example, is a discussion from the PBS Frontline series on early Christian women. It seems that Jesus was actually a feminist, and many of his most staunch supporters were women. But later, women like Mary Magdalene were DELIBERATELY turned into whores and the stories were altered so that Christianity became a religion of male domination. New texts have been discovered which reveal these things, and this is an example of what I am talking about when I say there is not very much of Jesus' real teachings in the Bible: pbs.org It is really frustrating to discuss these things over here, because it seems like a closed society, where there is a lot of insistence that every word of the Bible is the word of God. In reality, it was written by men over hundreds of years, and much of it is political rather than religious at all, particularly in terms of women and the Jews. Interestingly enough, even something written by very well respected theologians like the url I just cited is considered Satanic over here. Do you realize how narrow minded that sounds to most people? Any post that is at all controversial is simply ignored, or the writer is immediately discredited as doing the work of the devil. However, I did find one quote from the Gospel of Thomas that I like and find very relevant, particularly to the ongoing discussion of homosexuality over here. To me it says that gender and sexual identity are not very important in the long run: 22 Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom." They said to him, "Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."