A dorky thread on a random Coptic text that makes me go "HUH, Latter-day Saints":

Some dude Tim copied a text that we call "The Discourse on Abbaton" in this language Coptic, which is an Egypty Greek sort of deal. In the grand scheme of Christian texts, not v popular.

Plural of God. In Hebrew, Genesis 1:26, God is a plural. Many call it the majestic plural. Greek translates it as a singular. But the Coptic when translating makes it a plural. We can't read too much into that, but that's an odd choice for Coptic (follows Gk more).

But it gets more rad. In this text, Jesus *chooses* to be Savior, we read: "And I said to my Father, send breath into him; I will stand as an advocate for him." That's pretty rad. A little reminiscent of Hebrew 5. But *agency* emphasized.

Now let's talk Adam God. I obvy don't believe in Adam God, but I like BY's energy and verve with it. Well we read: "And all the hosts of heaven worshipped God at first, and then they worshiped Adam, saying, Alas, you [are] the image and likeness of God." Say whattttt??????

Talk about Adam God being real clear there (still a wrong doctrine, but y'all get the point). Aight so then, we read later on re: Adam and Eve, "for He made Himself to be your advocate when you were clay before He put spirit into you."

So this is rad because this is the Father talking about Jesus, the Son. And let me tell you, it does not *feel* Trinitarian (not all early Christians were Trinitarian regardless), but this is a p weird detail to include. Jesus as creator plus the slightly odd plural. Idkkkkkk.

The plural is especially odd because it switches to a singular when talking about the angel as creation, which means that it's more plausible that the plural was deliberate. This shows a separation between the Father and Son as persons and also indues the Son as a creator.

Then, we get to this randy section on John, where John is told "you will not die until thrones are prepared on the day of Resurrection." And at this point, you're like okay so Adam-God, Jesus as creator, deathless John, "Latter-day Saint, much", but homie there is more.

This is a thematic one, but Adam's transgression (it is called a transgression) is not spoken of in an original sin-y way. Tim writes about how everyone will sin, but does not mention any connection to Adam's transgression.

Anyways, 11/10 recommend reading the Coptic of this text because there's some interesting parallels in it. It's been quoted in General Conference (not shocking) and has a lot of unique elements.

The Church is true. That's all.