Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Yetzer-HaRa

Although united to Jews under the umbrella of Orthodox Judaism, Messianic Noahides observing Noahide Judaism throughout the aeon, whether as Paulician Taziganoi, Cozlones or Bogomils, have been more dualistic than Jews. This is because it is safer and easier for the ex-gnostic, ex-pagan and ex-apostate to avoid evil under the concept of what Paul calls "ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου" which translates into English as "the god of this aeon". 

Only the Pharisaical Episcopy is considered protected from the god of this aeon due to extra diligence in obverving all of the Mitzvot of the Torah. Of course, those who fail in extra diligence are just as susceptible to his deceptions as anyone else. 

The god of this age is the Yetzer HaRa, the Archon of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with which mankind has been imprisoned ever since the Fall from Grace. 

For this reason Messianic Noahides regard Yeshua Sar haPanim as having his own Edenic flesh not having used anything of this world except as one might wear clothing. This Miaphysite view has been mockingly reduced to Docetism by those opposed to Messianic Noahides.