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The serpent is rehabilitated as the impulse to seek knowledge even when a false god or priestly order forbids it.
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The serpent is rehabilitated as the impulse to seek knowledge even when a false god or priestly order forbids it.
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Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
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"...looking into yourself so you're you have to become like the serpent and pretend you don't know anything in order to access not yourself..."
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"the truth to seek love if the gods if the priest stop you from doing so it's because you're evil all right because remember..."
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"happen why did Adam and Eve go to heaven and why did they go to hell and why did they go to and Eve..."
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"that's important to understand they were not tricked by the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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