The Evil Creator
Origins of an Early Christian Idea
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This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblical interpretations. It is divided into two parts. In Part I, the focus is on the interpretations of Exodus and John. Firstly, ancient Egyptian assimilation of the Jewish god to the evil deity Seth-Typhon is studied to understand its reapplication by Phibionite and Sethian Christians to the Judeo-catholic creator. Secondly, the Christian reception of John 8:44 (understood to refer to the devil's father) is shown to implicate the Judeo-catholic creator in murdering Christ. Part II focuses on Marcionite Christian biblical interpretations. It begins with Marcionite interpretations of the creator's character in the Christian "Old Testament," analyzes 2 Corinthians 4:4 (in which "the god of this world" blinds people from Christ's glory), examines Christ's so-called destruction of the Law (Eph 2:15) and the Lawgiver, and shows how Christ finally succumbs to the "curse of the Law" inflicted by the creator (Gal 3:13). A concluding chapter shows how still today readers/listeners of the Christian Bible have concluded that the creator manifests an evil character.
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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome
- Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Simon Barber
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina. It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the earliest reports on Carpocrates and Marcellina, as well as the Epistle to Theodore (containing the so-called Secret Gospel of Mark). Listeners also encounter an up-to-date history of research on the Carpocratian movement, and three full profiles of all we can know from the earliest Carpocratian leaders.
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- De Anonymous User en 09-11-24
De: M. David Litwa
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Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought
- Becoming Angels and Demons
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Lisa Statler
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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There is not just a desire but a profound human need for enhancement - the irrepressible yearning to become better than ourselves. Today, enhancement is often conceived of in terms of biotechnical intervention: genetic modification, prostheses, implants, drug therapy - even mind uploading. The theme of this book is an ancient form of enhancement: a physical upgrade that involves ethical practices of self-realization. It has been called 'angelification' - a transformation by which people become angels.
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Best Read This Year!
- De Travis Wade Zinn en 09-26-24
De: M. David Litwa
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Iesus Deus
- The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: George Ellington
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Litwa’s samples take us beyond the realm of abstract theology to dwell in the second- and third-century imagination of what it meant to be a god and shows that the Christian depiction of Christ was quite at home there.
De: M. David Litwa
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Late Revelations
- Rediscovering the Gospels in the Second Century CE
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Lenard A Liebe
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
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Late Revelations introduces a revolutionary model for understanding the creation of the gospels in the New Testament and beyond. Rather than viewing the gospels as static and finished works published at one time, this book proposes that the initial gospels were "waves" of rolling traditions—stories, teachings, and sayings that evolved within early Christian groups. These traditions were fluid and dynamic, initially lacking the apostolic authorship attributed to them by later generations.
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History
- De Gary G. Mckirchy en 08-23-24
De: M. David Litwa
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The Naassenes
- Exploring an Early Christian Identity
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Jason Pflug
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late second and early third centuries CE. The work provides basic data on the date, genre, and provenance of the Naassene discourse as summarized by the author of the Refutation (or Refutator).
De: M. David Litwa
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Hermetica II
- The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction
- De: M. David Litwa
- Narrado por: Luke Betzner
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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This volume presents in new English translations the scattered fragments and testimonies regarding Hermes Thrice Great that complete Brian Copenhaver's translation of the Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992).
De: M. David Litwa
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Theurgy: Theory and Practice
- The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine
- De: P. D. Newman
- Narrado por: Michael Ellick
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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In this detailed study, P. D. Newman pushes the roots of theurgy all the way back before the time of Homer. He shows how the Chaldean Oracles were not only written in Homeric Greek but also in dactylic hexameter, the same meter as the epics of Homer. Linking the Greek shamanic practices of the late Archaic period with the theurgic rites of late antiquity, the author explains how both anabasis, soul ascent, and katabasis, soul descent, can be considered varieties of shamanic soul flight and how these practices existed in ancient Greek culture prior to the influx of shamanic influence.
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Essential current scholarship
- De Leontios Sethian en 08-20-24
De: P. D. Newman
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Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell
- A Straightforward Summary of the 21st Century's only Plausible Metaphysics
- De: Bernardo Kastrup
- Narrado por: Christian Leatherman
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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As the failures of physicalism begin to shake the confidence of even the most biased of its supporters, a new view on the nature of reality is establishing itself as the only tenable alternative: Analytic Idealism. According to it, there is a world out there independent of our individual minds, but such world is—just like ourselves—also mental or experiential. While being a realist, naturalist, rationalist, and even reductionist view, Analytic Idealism flips our culture-bound intuitions on their head.
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Underrated Insight
- De Lissa en 03-20-25
De: Bernardo Kastrup
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God
- An Anatomy
- De: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
- Narrado por: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
- Duración: 15 h y 56 m
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The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male.
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GREAT READ!!
- De Chester Johnson en 04-27-23
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On the Historicity of Jesus
- Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
- Duración: 28 h y 8 m
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The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus. Historian and philosopher Richard Carrier reexamines the whole question and finds compelling reasons to suspect the more daring assumption is correct.
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Very detailed analysis with a clear conclusion
- De E. Moore en 07-09-15
De: Richard Carrier
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The Case Against the Case for Christ
- A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel
- De: Robert M. Price
- Narrado por: Robert M. Price
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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Leading New Testament scholar Robert M. Price has taken umbrage at the cavalier manner in which Rev. Lee Strobel has misrepresented the field of Bible scholarship in his book The Case for Christ. Price exposes and refutes Strobel's arguments chapter-by-chapter. In doing so, he has occasion to wipe out the entire field of Christian apologetics as summarized by Strobel. This book is a must-read for anyone bewildered by the various books published by Rev. Strobel.
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One seriously bitter man
- De Kellie en 04-08-21
De: Robert M. Price
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The Origin of Satan
- How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
- De: Elaine Pagels
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories.
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Must read for all practicing Christians
- De Venusian Incognito en 09-06-19
De: Elaine Pagels
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The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, Volume 1
- De: Joshua Bowen
- Narrado por: Seth Andrews
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side accusing the other of taking challenging and troubling passages out of context. In this handbook, Joshua Bowen not only provides the background to the Old Testament and the ancient Near East, but engages with hotly contested topics like slavery, failed prophecy, and the authorship of debated Old Testament books.
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Very informative with beautiful narration
- De Frank Rizzo en 07-07-21
De: Joshua Bowen
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Why the Bible Began
- An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins
- De: Jacob L. Wright
- Narrado por: Jim Denison
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible imagined a promise-filled past while reflecting deeply on abject failure.
De: Jacob L. Wright
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How Jesus Became God
- The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
- De: Bart D. Ehrman
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty Creator of all things. Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus's followers had visions of him after his death - alive again - did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God.
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Wishing for a bit more meat on the bones
- De Darwin8u en 04-09-14
De: Bart D. Ehrman
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Evil Creator
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- Anonymous User
- 11-19-24
Beautifully Informative
The Evil Creator was an excellent listen, and a great suggestion for anyone interested in demiurgical studies.
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- Battery_Life
- 10-12-24
Great Introduction to the Concept
Dr. Justin Sledge did an interview with David Litwa recently about this book, which was my introduction to it and to David. I thought the book was excellent and precise about the topic titling it. As someone who has read a lot of gnostic literature and a good deal of early Christian literature I thoroughly enjoyed his breakdown and analysis of the subject and will follow future publications.
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- John
- 04-15-25
The detailed connection between set-typhon and the early Israelite deities el and yahweh.
I like how it describes the ability of humans to superimpose their cruelty onto their gods.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-25
Good
I like this book I enjoy how it is a book and that it sounds like a book
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- chris graybill
- 11-13-24
great research
this is a well researched, very insightful book. neutral and historical. highly recommend. the demiurge gets the spotlight.
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- L-Dub
- 01-21-25
Clear and understandable examples
i was born 3rd generation into a modern american cult. after deconstructing my cult beliefs I was left with atheism. Reading Litwa and Stavrakopoulu helps me understand why I can be at peace with my new world view.
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- Rudi Goldman
- 09-24-24
Remarkable Scholarship
A deep nuanced exploration which should be required reading for all students of religion.
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- Daniel Ericsson
- 02-18-25
In depth analysis of the dilemma of Christianity
Revolutionary truths explained in chronological order, intelligent explanations and unraveling the the cause of evil in our world
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- James
- 09-13-24
Depth
I love that this short book was so in depth about early christians who believed the creator deity was evil. Stellar as usual from this author
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- Howdy
- 10-10-24
As a child I always saw the Old Testament god as evil.
Great book with lots of interesting perspectives. I came to the conclusion that the god of the Old Testament was one of the worst examples of parenting. Most decent humans would never treat our children that way.
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