What Is The True Teaching of Jesus Christ? Dr. Elaine Pagels

From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

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[benjaminwhitley]

“These were not sets of beliefs. Doctrines. These were ways of life.”
This is so good.

[markjohnson]

Elaine Pagels is brilliant and speaks from the heart.

[thescoobymike]

There’s a lot of practicing Catholics who disagree with the Church. I always wondered why they remain Catholic if they don’t align with the beliefs. Realizing that it’s more about the practice and the belonging rather than the belief really changed my outlook.

[davehorner]

Elaine Pagels is one of my favorite guests

[badrinarayan]

100% agree.

Popular Religion = Adherence to social practices

Heartfelt Religion = Feeling and understanding the world, love and living in peaceful joy.

[kargbydavenport]

Thanks Derek for another great interview with Dr. Elaine Pagels. She is awesome.

[arizonatransplant]

Thank you Derek, Elaine Pagels is one of my favs. Looking forward to indulging after work.

[wadegruber]

I think we need a playlist for Dr. Pagels, unless I'm just not seeing it.

[psyfiles]

Such an honor to listen to Dr Pagels she has inspired me for 35 years

[freethinker]

Know Thyself. That is the true teaching.

[aaronaragon]

I read 3 of Elaine's books. Wonderful author and scholar.
Props to Derek for literate, relevant questions, and allowing the scholar to speak with little interruption.

[MercedesCruz-qenj]

Thank you Dr. PAGELS, YOU ARE A WONDERFUL TEACHER ❤

[_katellewis]

I appreciate Elaine Pagels so much! I read this book when it was published and again this year. I use what I learned from reading it often when talking about any of the Abrahamic traditions.

[Lord.Ningirsu]

Thank you Derek, by offering to us the opportunity with this great discussion ... To discovering the most kind, recomforting and ... Sagacious PhD scholar you talked to‼
And the thing who made me wrote this little thing is ... the bright flamme of intelligence who shine
in her beautiful gray blue eyes💘

[seanmcdonald]

I think in 1st Corinthians, Paul is definitely talking about the gnostic teachings. He’s saying the people weren’t ready for that level of consciousness but they found a way to get them closer to source all the same.

[TheWendybird]

Excellent, I love Dr. Pagels. She is much more nuanced in her understandings of Jesus's teachings, gnosis/mysticism, and early Christian beliefs (as compared to Ehrman - "dead is dead!" I'm sorry, but some scholars don't have any sense at all for mysticism, the direct experience of the divine/spiritual). Beliefs weren't all black and white. And the fact that Jesus's esoteric teachings weren't written down at the time (vs. parables for the masses) is part of the reason why there were so many different beliefs early on. The milk teachings became orthodox Christianity, and the secret esoteric teachings went in the other direction and were proclaimed heresy by the orthodoxy. There were early Christian (and early Jewish) mystics, and I'm pretty sure Jesus was one. Deeper esoteric teachings weren't originally written down, they were only oral, and only shared with those who were more mature in spiritual understanding. Yes, meat and milk teachings. You don't teach calculus or quantum physics to a kindergartner. I don't know why most mainstream Christians get upset at the idea that Jesus taught secretly to more advanced disciples. They are sure he meant his teachings to be fore everyone, there can't be "secret teachings"! But even Jesus warned against casting pearls before swine - the pearl being a symbol of divine wisdom or gnosis.

[Sahajayana-Nirvanasara]

Very good to hear, Outloud----as anyone who has not stepped into the steamy dualistic pile of belief---intuits and knows that the Gospel has nothing to do with be"lie"f, they fully understand that belief is a cultic step down from the Realization That Is The Gospel....similar to The Tao.

[nonomnismoriar]

Love your videos Derek but this video title is pretty misleading. It should read what did [some of] the earliest Christians believe in? Not Jesus himself.

[mrmorpheus]

How the hell is a guy ( paul ) the authority on a jesus that he never met....yall funny

[gordonmitchell]

I get a sense of Jesus saying, no one comes to the Father but by me, when I feel that He is saying, become one with me as I and the Father are one. We step into eternity in His light. His light is the life and the light encompasses us as one person in unity with Him. Everything is God. God is all, and we are a part of that all. When the 2 become 1 there is only 1.