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Senators being elected. is the glass half full or half empty? >> i think we're still on a journey, evolutionary journey. we've come a long way. no dousht there's still a long ways to go. i do think we need to pay greater attention to the plight of young plaque men in this country, to offer them promise and possibility and to talk about self realization. i'm proud of that effort. i hope it is as successful as some other things he has embarked upon. we're not where we need to go, where i want us to be. we're well on our way. today's celebration is part of that as well, to evidence that as black ...

>> the gospels were written not as history, scholars say, but as a kind of divine story. a gospel truth. >> when we now read these gospels as straightforward narratives, we completely miss their point. we are trying to make them into a diary. they're not a diary. we're trying to make them into a biography. they're not a biography. they are what, in our terms, should be called an apocalypse, a disclosure of a truth which -- a supposed truth -- which the gospel writers themselves believed was beyond all normal human apprehension. >> and they were aimed directly at the jews who had not embraced

Of jesus, different ways of understanding god and the world. and in the beginning, there is no orthodoxy and heresy. >> but that situation did not last for long, and much of the first 300 years of christianity and beyond were spent defining that faith. >> the struggle regarding orthodoxy and heresy never comes to an end, and these battles about truth and inclusion and exclusion are with us to the present day. >> sometimes we say if we could just get back to new testament christianity, then the church would live in unity. but in reality, when we look at the pages of the new testament, we find t...

Fifth through layer after layer of the heavens to the true spiritual wealth. it's very attractive. it offers a form of self-discovery, of self-truth, self-realization. >> the nostic message was very seductive. a mix of greek philosophy, egyptian religion, and eastern mysticism. all very contemporary in spirituality. >> the new testament gospels are gospels of the cross. the noose tick gospels are gospels of wisdom. the new testament gospels care about salvation from sin. the nostic gospels compare salvation for ignorance. the new testament goodples look

Of the heavens to the true spiritual realm. it's very attractive. it offers a form of self-discovery, of self-truth, self-realization. >> the gnostic message was very seductive. a mix of greek philosophy, egyptian religion and eastern mysticism, all very contemporary in its spirituality. >> the new testament gospels are gospels of the cross. the gnostic gospels are gospels of wisdom. the new testament gospels care about salvation from sin. the gnostic gospels care about salvation from ignorance. the new testament gospels look to stimulate faith.