Alex OConnor | The History of the Demiurge - An Ancient Alternate God? @TheEsotericaChannel @CosmicSkeptic | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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0:00 When Gods have a history
4:53 What is the Demiurge?
7:52 Plato’s Demiurge
17:26 The early development of creator gods
24:31 How YHWH became an evil Egyptian God
37:00 The development of the donkey-headed God
42:06 The earliest depiction of Jesus is a donkey-headed God
48:10 The early development of Christianity
50:58 Marcion and the first Christian Bible
1:08:18 The popularity of early Christian gnosticism
1:13:12 The connection between the Demiurge and the Jews
1:20:12 The evil Demiurge in Christianity
1:28:07 The theology of the Demiurge
1:35:44 How Christianity merged with other mythologies
1:42:56 The context in which Christianity evolved
1:48:35 Ending

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