The White Throne is for unloading

[David Morris]

>From: Terence
>
>Otto mentions that there is in fact a  binary in Jewish
>mysticism: A distinction between Kabbalah in the wake of Judaism and 
>Kabbalah under the influence of Gnosticism id very important to GR.  The 
>former basically conceived of the Creation as good, "except as it has been 
>marred or altered by man's disobedience or wickedness"; the latter 
>considered the Creation  "world evilly made by hostile demons."

Yes!  This is a very important point.  Both have man living in a fallen 
state, but the Kabbalah makes this state the "original" state, and thus the 
responsibility (mistake) of the Creator, an "original" misjudgement.  A 
flawed God.

The Adam & Eve story blames the fall on a Demon created earlier by God, but, 
like Gnosticism, starts with a God who has tied his own hand, or walked away 
from Creation after having "legally" given the keys to the kingdom away.  
This is credited to God's respect for Free Will of his creations, Lucifer 
first and then Adam, but, like Kabbalah, blame eventually goes back to God's 
having knowingly created flawed new rulers for His Cosmos.

David Morris
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