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	<title>Comments on: Is Christianity Elitist?</title>
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		<title>By: Fiacharrey</title>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/01/18/gnosticism-is-elitist/comment-page-1/#comment-9971</link>
		<dc:creator>Fiacharrey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had a conversation on the blog "Oh How I Love Jesus" about not taking communion.  They didn't seem to understand that to take communion, I felt I had to pay too high a price.  "What do you mean?  You don't have to pay anything, just accept Jesus as your personal savior."   I'm not sure if they got just what a high price that is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a conversation on the blog &#8220;Oh How I Love Jesus&#8221; about not taking communion.  They didn&#8217;t seem to understand that to take communion, I felt I had to pay too high a price.  &#8220;What do you mean?  You don&#8217;t have to pay anything, just accept Jesus as your personal savior.&#8221;   I&#8217;m not sure if they got just what a high price that is.</p>
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		<title>By: Moshpit_zion</title>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/01/18/gnosticism-is-elitist/comment-page-1/#comment-9939</link>
		<dc:creator>Moshpit_zion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hahahaha, a conservative religious group declaring resistance to a worldwide economic and psychic takeover by the very group who created their religion in the first place... 
Well at least it's a start. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hahahaha, a conservative religious group declaring resistance to a worldwide economic and psychic takeover by the very group who created their religion in the first place&#8230;<br />
Well at least it&#8217;s a start.</p>
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		<title>By: nemesis</title>
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		<dc:creator>nemesis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;â€œIf you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you.â€&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I must admit my own ignorance towards what gnosticism was ended recently after realising that id probably misinterpreted everything id read in the gnostic gospels. Id read the above to mean the death of ego experience brought with it the knowledge of god through self knowledge. When i read the website it was clear to me that these where good people but i cant hold with there translation of illumination, there are millions of poor people in the world who dont know of gnosticism or christianity and there are alot of people who find joy just in the spirit and they havent had the chances to learn. Whilst i really enjoy gnostic teachings the intellectual window dressing that comes with it is quite disheartening. Universalism seems a good thing because i dont want to be with a god that sends millions to hell because of something that was never really within there reality.I may be a lovely man who does many good deeds with a heart of gold but at the core id be condeming the most vulnerable people to hell in my belief. Compared to the meanstream they are angels though.(this is just my opinion)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>â€œIf you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you.â€</p></blockquote>
<p>I must admit my own ignorance towards what gnosticism was ended recently after realising that id probably misinterpreted everything id read in the gnostic gospels. Id read the above to mean the death of ego experience brought with it the knowledge of god through self knowledge. When i read the website it was clear to me that these where good people but i cant hold with there translation of illumination, there are millions of poor people in the world who dont know of gnosticism or christianity and there are alot of people who find joy just in the spirit and they havent had the chances to learn. Whilst i really enjoy gnostic teachings the intellectual window dressing that comes with it is quite disheartening. Universalism seems a good thing because i dont want to be with a god that sends millions to hell because of something that was never really within there reality.I may be a lovely man who does many good deeds with a heart of gold but at the core id be condeming the most vulnerable people to hell in my belief. Compared to the meanstream they are angels though.(this is just my opinion)</p>
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