@Cpat92 Said
No. Mainly on Facebook. I told them something that they didn’t like.
Christians, Jews and Muslims serve the same God. They got so upset.
I would argue against that view.
Christians and Muslims are idol worshiping literalists.
Jews, from what I gather, are not literalists nor idol worshipers.
I guess I would have to exclude the Jews for Jesus branch but otherwise, as I understand it, Karaite Jews, are the branch that control the beliefs and they, like we Gnostic Christians put man above god, as we should, given that all the gods are man made.
The Karaite Jews control the traditional oral tradition which leads the orthodoxy.
I think that they and Chrestians originally formed what is now Gnostic Christianity as we all though along the same lines.
Regardless. Here is the thinking on literalism. I hope you can see how intelligent the ancients were as compared to the mental trash that modern preachers and theists are using with the literal reading of myths.
https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-god-2-2
Further.
https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html
Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus, said that when asked to sum up the whole of Jewish teaching, while he stood on one leg, said, "The Golden Rule. That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. And everything else is only commentary. Now, go and study it."
Please listen as to what is said about the literal reading of myths.
"Origen, the great second or third century Greek commentator on the Bible said that it is absolutely impossible to take these texts literally. You simply cannot do so. And he said, "God has put these sort of conundrums and paradoxes in so that we are forced to seek a deeper meaning."
Matt 7;12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
This is how early Gnostic Christians view the transition from reading myths properly to destructive literal reading and idol worship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR02ciandvg&feature=BFa&list=PLCBF574D
Regards
DL