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[LoneWonderer]

I just realized there was no halloween actualized.org episode special this year. Rip. 😭😭😭

Edited 12 hours ago by LoneWonderer

[Rafael Thundercat]

One thing that Christians avoid like poison is to contemplate why the Bible dont include the apocriphal books. Well, this cherrypicking have origins on the several Concils. Is amazing to see one book where we find stories of young Jesus being a mischevous boy, even killing another boy with his magic powers. 

What Books Are in the Apocrypha? A Summary of Each Book https://share.google/rh7JuQcC5wfdTXsvK

I am reading a collection of 3 books with these books, just for fun and curiosoty.

Anyone here already took a look on this material?

Imagine how evengelists would make of this part of the Book of Tobit

Quote: “Tobias said to Raphael, ‘Brother Azariah, I’ve heard that she has already been given to seven men and that they died in the bridal chamber. They dropped dead the very night they tried to have sex with her. I’ve heard people saying that a demon kills them. Now I’m also afraid, because the demon loves her and doesn’t harm her but kills anyone who desires to approach her….’ Raphael said to him, ‘Don’t you remember your father’s instructions, that you should take a wife from among your father’s relatives? Now listen to me, my brother: Don’t worry about this demon. Take her, for I know that tonight she will be given to you as your wife. When you enter into the bridal chamber, take some of the fish’s liver and heart and lay them over the warm incense coals. This will let off an odor, and the demon will smell it, flee, and never stalk her again.’” (Tobit 6:14-18, CEB)

-This shit sound and smell more like Shamanism- 

A crosspolination of this bookish topic is that we dont know how much Politics,Power Dynamics, Corruption etc.. was involved in what today is Christianity. Well, by observing the fruits we can see the roots. 

so maybe as this video say, the concils or maybe at least in this specific concil was not the cherrypicking of books the main theme. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Rafael Thundercat

[Leo Gura]

16 minutes ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

Anyone here already took a look on this material?

Yeah, I looked at a few of those non-canonical gospels.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Psychonaut]

Book of Enoch is great. I started reading it a few years back. Never got through the entire thing. But since I can't read hebrew it is kinda pointless anyways. One needs a very good translation.

[Rafael Thundercat]

52 minutes ago, Psychonaut said:

Book of Enoch is great. I started reading it a few years back. Never got through the entire thing. But since I can't read hebrew it is kinda pointless anyways. One needs a very good translation.

I am reading this one. In the book I am reading is called The Book of Mysterys of Enoch. Sounds more like a Psycadelics Trip. I dont want to assume that because could be inventions or whatever. Writers can be very elusive if they wish. But I can see why this one was left out of the Canonics. Sounds to mystical for a fundamentalist group.