Theological Science and Self-Knowledge, I

The Gospel of Thomas tells us that the New and Old Testaments can mislead people. This gospel was found among the documents discovered in 1945 at the city of Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It reveals no miracles, reveals no fulfillment of a prophecy and announces no apocalyptic kingdom. Instead, Jesus teaches his ‘living water’ from the bubbling spring of God’s wisdom. Based on my research on the New Testament and the Gospel of Thomas, I conclude that one of the most important teachings of Jesus Christ was ‘self-knowledge.
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Self-knowledge is a special potential that God gave to humans. This potential is received by every human as a ‘reasonable mind.’ Technically, this reasonable mind is a conscious thing-in-itself. As a conscious thing, it is able to measure and develop knowledge about all other things in the universe. Although a reasonable mind cannot know God, it is able to understand God better and better as consciousness increases.

Since a reasonable mind must be embodied, it cannot be embodied the same way. Different embodiments will cause humans to have different interests. For instance, male and female humans have different interests because their bodies are very different. Such differences also cause reasonable minds to develop self-knowledge differently. For instance, one human might have developed interests in mathematics whereas another human might have developed interests in dialectics. These two humans will develop a different view of the same tree, stone, person, flower, mountain, etc. So, no single interest can dominate human knowledge.

When physicists say that they will complete knowledge of the universe soon, I conclude that they have developed interests only in power and the domination of the life of all humans.