How many of you know anything about Gnostic Christianity?
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What’s that ?? Gnostic?
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I do. J. N. D. Kelly “Early Christian Doctrines”. a must have.
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Look into Theoria or the Hesychast ascetics.
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Have studied some of it, and it is sad how close some come to it today in their beliefs ?
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I know a fair amount. Why?
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Why? I’m reading the Gnostic Bible.
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Does Gnostic Gatherings exit today? Where?
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Watch Joel Osteen or Kenneth Copeland and you’ll get your answer.
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Gnosticism was one of the first heresies to invade the church. The apostle John addressed it in his epistles. While Osteen and Copeland have an errant message I would not classify them as true Gnostics.
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The best thing to learn about the gnostic position is that they are trying to explain away the reality of Christ.
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It’s like as if the Gnostics are the only ones who have & know the truth ! An totally exclusive bunch they are. Knowledge is only given to them and they keep it all secret !
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There are no gnostic christianity. The two words are contradictory to each other.
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Gnosticism is alive and well today within some Christian circles. Many seem to think they can do whatever they want with their bodies because it is their spirit is being saved. Paul speaks of the Gnostic converts in 2 Timothy 3:1-9.
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It’s a false gospel that doesn’t believe Jesus came in the flesh
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“Gnostic Christianity” is fake.
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I’ll tell you about gnostic Christianity when you tell me about boiling ice.
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Dear Marco Having read many of these Gnostic texts, it is clear that they do not have the authentic Jewish background of the New Testament Gospels. They are largely late developments that use a spurious Jesus figure as a mouthpiece for esoteric beliefs. I argue this in “A Skeptic’s Investigation into Jesus.” Regards
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The JW today has adopted the first century Gnosticism.
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Ask the Calvinists, they inherited it from Augustine.
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Writings found in Egypt in 1945. 3rd century written.
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The Gnostic gospels are writings by early “Christian” Gnostics. After the first century of Christianity, two primary divisions developed – the orthodox and the Gnostics. The orthodox Christians held to books we now have in the Bible and to what is today considered orthodox theology. The Gnostic Christians, if they can truly be described as Christians, held a distinctly different view of the Bible, of Jesus Christ, of salvation, and of virtually every other major Christian doctrine. However, they did not have any writings by the Apostles to give legitimacy to their beliefs.
That is why and how the Gnostic gospels were created. The Gnostics fraudulently attached the names of famous Christians to their writings, such as the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Philip, the gospel of Mary, etc. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in southern Egypt in 1945 represented a major discovery of Gnostic gospels. These Gnostic gospels are often pointed to as supposed “lost books of the Bible.”
So, what are we to make of the Gnostic gospels? Should some or all of them be in the Bible? No, they should not. First, as pointed out above, the Gnostic gospels are forgeries, fraudulently written in the names of the Apostles in order to give them a legitimacy in the early church. Thankfully, the early church fathers were nearly unanimous in recognizing the Gnostic gospels as promoting false teachings about virtually every key Christian doctrine. There are countless contradictions between the Gnostic gospels and the true Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Gnostic gospels can be a good source for the study of early Christian heresies, but they should be rejected outright as not belonging in the Bible and not representing the genuine Christian faith.
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Paul addressed several letters to refute them
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I know it’s a lie
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A completely false teaching
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It’s around
And it’s terrible.
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Can’t tell you. It’s a secret.
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Modern day kabbalah
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Gnosticism deals with the occult and “secret” knowledge. No bueno
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…. and all the calvinists said “I DO!” ?
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