Jesus said," Fortunate is the lion that human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that lion will eat, and lion become human."
Anyone knows the meaning?
Gospel of Thomas 7
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Gospel of Thomas 7
Anyone knows the meaning?
Only twisted at first sight because of word order.
Here lion is symbol of animal instincts, materialism, unspirituality; man is the antipode to that, i.e. symbol of spirituality.
Fortunate is the unspiritual guy that takes on spirituality (lion eats human, lion becomes human).
Unfortunate is the spiritual man that takes on unspirituality (human eats lion, human becomes lion).
Christ likes plays on logic, I admit. But this is certainly not a specimen of true ninth-category-speak
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BTW I have never read The Gospel of Thomas, and I look forward to discussing it more. Bomohwkl, what do you think about setting up a wiki for this purpose, as Lachie proposed?
Here lion is symbol of animal instincts, materialism, unspirituality; man is the antipode to that, i.e. symbol of spirituality.
Fortunate is the unspiritual guy that takes on spirituality (lion eats human, lion becomes human).
Unfortunate is the spiritual man that takes on unspirituality (human eats lion, human becomes lion).
Christ likes plays on logic, I admit. But this is certainly not a specimen of true ninth-category-speak
.BTW I have never read The Gospel of Thomas, and I look forward to discussing it more. Bomohwkl, what do you think about setting up a wiki for this purpose, as Lachie proposed?
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