Gnostics....if the body really doesn't matter....?

Question

why did Jesus sacrifice His Body after taking all of our sin into Himself?

avilax...what about the eastern orthodox and the syriac christians...the Peshita is a translation from aramaic to english. The RCC ain't the only ones who have the "canon" and they ain't the only ones who can rightfully claim apostolic succession...it took over 1000 years for the schism to fully work itself out. You are obviously reading a very biased christian history....you are leaving out all of the eastern churches and the coptics. Start over please before you do hsrm to others...thanks !!!

Answer 1

If you were truly fortunate to find a True Gnostic, you might not like the answer that you would receive. I'll let it go at that!

Answer 2

I was raised a catholic, I believe in Jesus etc. And lately I have been adopting Gnosticisim for my religious teachings.
The gnostics, are not a church, their objective is for you to learn the truth through knowledge.

Knowledge would be to look up through history, and find out that for example, there are gospels that were not accepted by the catholic church due to the decision of one pope who believed 4 was the perfect number and thus he accepted only 4 gospels.

There has been corruption in the church, just look at the spanish inquisition for example. There are people who want power within the church that is an institution formed by men, and men make mistakes.

But if you use knowledge, logic, and reliable sources, such as reading straight from the bible and the new testaments, you find truth.

Have you ever wondered why catholic priests are not allowed to have sex or get married?.
That prohibition is not in the bibble nor in the new testament, that is only the church's interpretation from the fact that Jesus wasn't married and the apostles were asked to leave everything behind and follow Jesus.

By logic they could not spread the word of Jesus in those times, while taking care of a family at the same time. But there is no prohibition mentioned in the books, and in these times it would be perfectly reasonable for a priest to be married.

The body does matter, some people say the gonstics believe the body is a prison for the soul, this is true and at the same it is not, gnostics don't belive there's something wrong with the human body.

Through the gnostic teachings I have been able to discover christianity and the purpose of Jesus in a deeper meaning.
I suggest you read Edgar Cayce on the topic of creation.
And Plato's world of ideas.

As a christian you always wonder how the world was created and why are we here, through gnosticism I have found the answer:

We were once, one with God, and we lived in the spiritual realm, it was the manifestation of our interest in the material, that the material world was created. Thoughts become reality.
In christianity you have the phrase "the verb became flesh".

So our thoughts created the material world, and our interest in it was so strong that we incarnated in it, we lost the sense of unity we had with God, we come all from the same source, thus we are brothers, and God is the manifestation of eternal consciousness and knowledge, justice, etc. God is everything and at the same time God is a superior consciousness.

At some point we got lost in the material world, the body became a shell for our soul, at the begining we had a deep connection and voluntary separation from the body, but is as if we developed amnesia and lost the capability to leave the body by our own command. Although you can still have that capability trough astral travel. But that's another topic.

There's nothing wrong with the body and living in the material world, but there's a higher dimension we can get into, the heaven per se. And we can only reach it through eliminating our sins for real.

The basic difference from christianity, is that gnostics believe in Karma, Dharma and rencarnation, hell, and heaven.
When a catholic see a poor kid, he thinks "he got bad luck, and I'm lucky that I was born in a rich house". Do you think God would allow that?, do you think its mere luck?, it is not, it is called Karma, and it is the result of the poor kid's sins in previous lives, it is the same soul, in a different life, with no memory of the previous life because otherwise he would not be able to live the present.
And so a person who has elminated all of its sins, can have entry to heaven. Hell is for people who keep sining in every life and accumulate huge Karma.

Answer 3

The body is the shell that the soul employs to work out the purpose and the destiny of life and is discarded when the soul has completed the purpose of any given lifetime.No one man can take on the sins of the whole world ,this is just an invention of the church for people who cannot face the consequences of their own actions.

Answer 4

because that's how he showed that the body doesn't matter. by letting us know that our souls are eternal..