Atheists what do you think of these Quotes from the Gospel of Philip?

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"Names given to the worldly are very deceptive, for they divert our thoughts from what is correct to what is incorrect. Thus one who hears the word 'God' does not perceive what is correct, but perceives what is incorrect." -The Gospel of Philip

"That is the way it is in the world - men make Gods and worship their creation. It would be fitting for the Gods to worship men." -The Gospel of Philip

I wonder why the "Christians" who won the religious war against the other Christians burned this book?
Reverend Red Mage go back to praying to your imaginary friend to make me believe what you believe.
Ricky it is equally self-evident that your books did not come from the Apostles either and even if part of it did certainly not in the form it is in today. To support my claims here is a scholar in this area giving a lecture on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS37yrBwx2Q
Avocado you are either blind or a very stupid atheist.
John Worden I really wish you would have read the quote.
Fraizie I have a feeling you also did not even read the quotes. Are atheists here just on autopilot?
Dr. Bob "No Christian burned the so-called Gospel of Phillip." Your entire post is full of so many false assumptions it makes me want to throw up. Athanasius ordered all books not on the official list to be burned.
Dr. Bob those thousands of copies of the Bible contradict each other. For example 1 John 5:7 and the woman caught in adultery are absent from all ancient manuscripts.
" How did the book burners find those books, dig them up, and burn them but leave the other works untouched?"
That answer is quite simple, the New Testament was not yet being bound into a single text yet. The earliest Bound text of the New Testament dates 350AD.
Mathy Kathy very nice quote for some reason I feel you are the only one who read my quotes and then responded with a relevant quote.
Elizabeth Dreger-Anderson you obviously did not read the quotes which shows your close-mindedness and your inability to not judge based on appearance. Obviously you saw my icon and just responded thinking whatever you wanted to think and believe. It is people like you that give atheists a bad rep. The quote I provided says men made up gods in their minds... okay.... so according to you atheists do not agree with that????? You obviously can not read English or are on some form of spam autopilot.
 
Nothing, since I don't buy anything the Bible says.

You seem to have difficulty understanding what "atheist" means, my friend.
 
The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!
 
They rejected it as it has heretical beliefs just like the other books they rightly rejected and beliefs of such heretical men as well like Marcion. They don't teach what is true as they even lie claiming to be from Apostles when they clearly are not.

Oh wow one scholar against those who were there at the time and knew them, ie.Church Fathers.

@Fraizie
When we say there's such a thing as evil, don't we assume there to be such a thing as good? But when we say there's such things as good and evil, aren't we assuming a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil?

However when we establish there is a moral law, we must posit a Moral Law Giver-God-but that is who this objection is trying to disprove and not prove!

Because if there's no Moral-Law Giver, there's no moral law; if there's no moral law there's no good and if there's no good, there's no evil; and everything dissolves into a random subjectivity in regards to morality.

Now whereas such morality might not be utterly worthless, it is ultimately meaningless if the subjective moral expression is made by a creature which is intrinsically worthless, according to self definition, purely biological terms.

Also it was mostly the custom to hide a book that was rejected not burn it in the early days of the Church. Also whether they were bound like the Books we know today is irrelevant what is relevant is that they had and used the same texts, read their Canonical lists and you'll see you are wrong.
 
No Christian burned the so-called Gospel of Phillip.

In the early days of the Jesus movement (what was once referred to as "The Way") manuscripts were copied and passed around frequently. Books that were seen as scriptural or divinely inspired were copied and passed on. Books that were not seen as inspired were not passed around.

By the time the Council of Nicea came around, the canon of the New Testament was firmly established, and had been for more than 100 years. Copies were frequently made for individual churches (different than having the text located in the Jewish Temple), and even individuals had their own libraries of the works.

The result of this is that today we have more than 20,000 copies found by archaeologists of very early copies of the New Testament books (dating from between 25 and 65 years after their initial writing), with 5,000+ of these being in the original Greek. Contrast that with other works that were not seen to be inspired like the Gospel of Thomas; we have exactly one copy of this work, and it is clearly a forgery.

The Gospel of Phillip dates from around the mid third century, is not arranged like any other legitimate gospel, and contains Gnostic ideas. The work simply wasn't copied like the other legitimate works were.

To claim that it was burned deliberately would also require you to explain this: Copies of the "Gospel of Phillip" must have certainly been the rest of the New Testament books. How did the book burners find those books, dig them up, and burn them but leave the other works untouched?

This book clearly claims to be written by Phillip, but it is a clear forgery.

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EDIT: I like the way you tell everyone, on every side of the issue, that they are all idiots and you're the only one who knows the truth. Good tactic.

Unfortunately, the most learned New Testament scholars -- Christian and non-Christian -- disagree with you.
 
Okay, then I will respond with a quote:
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing?
Then whence com meth evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
-Epicurus, Greek philosopher 341-270 BC
 
I think you spam them far too much, and I'm surprised half your answers aren't deleted already.

Edit:
"Reverend Red Mage go back to praying to your imaginary friend to make me believe what you believe."
 
god is faith, and many people, including me, cannot believe in something through faith alone, especially when there has been so much wrong with churches in the past. I read the quote, I was just tired when I answered sorry, but I didn't quite understand what we were supposed to say about the quotes.
 
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