Small Group Notes: Many Kinds of Christ

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  • Iranians; Against Heresies, Book 1.

Ancient Times; 100 AD-500 AD

  1. Gnostics

    1. Sethian/Valentienion (Forms of 'Refined Gnosticism' showing development and evolution of thought) earliest written source is dated to around 400 AD, seeds of this heresy date to the Nicolations of Revelation 2;15*1 written around 90-100 ad, and even beforehand, going back to ca. 200 bc, seeds can be found in the Jewish Pseudo-graphica, such as the Book of Enoch*2)

      1. Aberrant Characteristics

        1. Not physical, body was illusion*3

        2. Provides enlightenment and bestows secret knowledge.*4

        3. One of many 'gods' *5

    2. Manichean; ad 210-300.*6

    3. Offshoot of Zoroastrianism, Mani took elements from Gnostic Judaism, and Gnostic Christianity along with Zoroastrian doctrines merging them into a new religion. Significant in that the character of Jesus is hijacked and morphed into something else.

Medievil; 600-1492.

  1. The Islamic Christ, 700-800 ad

    1. Aberrant Characteristics

      1. Childhood:

        1. Of Birds and Clay, Gnosticism repackaged*7

      2. Ministry:

      3. Proclaimed the glory of Allah*8

      4. Will Kill all 'pigs'

      5. Break the Cross.

      6. The Second Coming*9

  1. The Blood Soaked Christ

    1. The Warlord Jesus, Crusades 1096

  2. Aberrant Characteristics

    1. Warlord instead of preacher of peace

    2. Worldly, the crusades were fought for political and financial reasons

    3. Dishonest, double minded via Indulgences, 1343.

Modern Times; 1492-2012

  1. Mystic Christ

  2. Unity, 1889*10

    1. Aberrant Characteristics

      1. Denial of Ultimate Power

      2. Relegated to an impersonal energy

    2. Christian Science, 1879*11

  3. Aberrant Characteristics

    1. declarations redefined

    2. Character Altered

  1. Misunderstood Christ:

  2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1830

  3. Aberrant Characteristics*12

    1. a god

    2. once a man

  1. Jehovah's Witness and the bible, watchtower and tract society

  2. Aberrant Characteristics

    1. Created (not Eternal)*13

    2. Is really the Archangel Michael.*14

  3. Magic Christ

  4. John Dee, 1581*15

  5. Henerich Cornelius Agrippa, 1533*16

  6. Aberrant Characteristics*17

    1. Conveyor of secret knowledge

    2. Promotes Heterodoxy

Today; 10/28/2012

The Ecumenical Jesus

The diminished Christ

Palagenism

Open Theism

Emergent.

Bonus: The Alien Jesus

Raelian Jesus

  1. Historical Jesus was cloned thus insuring immortality*18

  2. mankind was put here by aliens*19

  3. Muhammud, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus are called to be prophets by the Elohim, the alien creator, there fore all religions have some truth. *20

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