Re: [asa] Creation and Incarnation

In a message dated 8/19/2006 1:13:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
alexanian@uncw.edu writes:
I am rather reluctant to use the term Science of Theology.

I have it. Do you want to read it? There is a structure to it, well known to
psychology/anthropology. I've offered it here before.

The stucture of the Fall:

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the “tree of the knowledge of good and
evil” the “eyes of both of them were opened and they discovered that they were
naked; so they stitched fig-leaves together and made loincloths… and hid from
the Lord God.”
Genesis 3: 6-7
When you have the knowledge of good and evil your eyes are opened (you are
self conscious) you are ashamed (ashamed of your "self") of your nakedness and
afraid (with the consciousness of self comes a marked increase of ontological
anxiety).

The structure of the Return:

“When you disrobe without being ashamed… you will not be afraid.”
The Gospel of Thomas
            
Jesus’ words in this Nag Hammadi text from 1st century Egypt dovetail
remarkably with the nature of the fall in Genesis. The fall brought shame and fear
(self-consciousness and ontological anxiety). Returning to God (by abandoning
the “self”) would remove them.

To abandon self consciousness, to have the law written on your heart, to have
the courage to behave intuitively, requires faith.

There is much more based on the simple formula above in fact that formula is
the foundation of Judeo-Christianity personal and communal religion. Perhaps
you do not see it clearly with the terms you use.

I have the paper. many of your peers have read it. Hundreds of scientists
have read it because I offer it freely on the evopsychology list on yahoo groups.

it's very plain. Notice that Jesus in this 1st century text knows the formula
**in reverse** meaning, yes, the science of the theology was known to the
author of that gnostic text in the 1st century.

rich faussette

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Received on Sat Aug 19 13:54:50 2006