ELAINE PAGELS EXPLAINS THAT JESUS

WAS A SPIRITUAL BEING IN "THE GNOSTIC

GOSPELS"


In the Acts of John, one of the most

famous of Gnostic texts, he says: "I will

tell you another glory, brethren,

Sometimes when I meant to touch Him I

encountered a material, solid body, but

other times when I felt him, his substance

was immaterial and incorporeal, as if it

did not exist at all."

He also found that Jesus never left any

footprints. "Jesus was not a human

being; instead he was a spiritual being

who adapted himself to spiritual

perception," as Prof. Elaine Pagels

explained it in "The Gnostic Gospels".

 

This is further explained in the Buddhist

Essene Gospel of Jesus Vol. II:

 

THE WORD MADE FLESH IS AN INCORRECT
 

TRANSLATION


Then, as Thomas admits, “Since the Word

of God is true God, it is impossible that

the Word be changed into flesh.” Here

the Western translation is at fault,

saying, “The Word was made flesh”, and

as we have shown from the Syriac

translation it should say, “The Word was

realized by the flesh,” or as Thomas puts

it “The Word was assumed by the flesh”

rather than “became flesh”.

 

The Holy Spirit appeared visibly as a dove

at the baptism, and later as tongues of

fire to the Apostles, but like the Word as

to flesh, the Spirit did not become a dove

or fire. Also when John saw “Jesus

walking”, this is a metaphor, just as

when Adam and Eve “heard the voice of

God, walking in the garden” of Eden, -

(Gen.3:8) He appeared visibly in the

world but it did not make God or His Son

flesh.

THERE WAS NO FLESHLY PERSON JESUS,

JOHN WAS NOT JESUS WHO WAS A SPIRIT,

THE SON OF GOD, HE WAS A WITNESS


“Nothing created can equal God. The Son

is equal to the Father: For John (5:18)

says, “The Jews sought the more to kill

Him, because He did not only break the

Sabbath, but also said God was His

Father, making Himself equal to God.” So

actually what John was teaching was that

the Son of God, the Christ, was beyond

what the Jews looked at, but “among you

stands one whom you do not know”

(Jn.1:26) since in his appearance in the

flesh, he declared “I am not the Christ.”

 

When John was lustrating in Bethany at

the Jordan Crossing, “He looked at the

Living God while He walked and said,

Behold the Prophesied One! When he said

it, two of his disciples heard it; and they

followed Jesus (or the Living God).” As

we have said before James, and Andrew

were the two witnesses, gathered in His

name, where the Living God was in the

midst of them. From thereon we hear

very little of John himself in the flesh,

but rather hear of his testimony of Jesus,

the Living God as the Word and Son of

God. John was not Jesus, but was the

human witness that gave testimony of

the Incarnation, in multiplicity and

variety of the One Person.