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You are confused about Gnosticism. Essentially, Gnosticism believes that each person can achieve their own direct relationship with God, through Jesus, and with no need of priesthood of any kind.
:: You are confused about Gnosticism ::
No. I am not.
You have fallen for the Gnostic lie.
that’s news to me
1 month ago - priesthood of all believers, cardinal doctrinal principle of the churches of the 16th-century Reformation, both Lutheran and Reformed, and the Protestant Free churches that arose from the Reformation churches. The doctrine asserts that all humans have access to God through Christ, the true high priest, and thus do not need a priestly mediator. (
Gnosticism is a collection of religious ideas and systems that emerged in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. It emphasizes personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the proto-orthodox teachings, traditions, and authority of religious institutions.3 Gnosticism is a loosely organized religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the first and second centuries CE. The exact origin(s) of this school of thought cannot be traced, but it is possible to locate influences or sources as far back as the second and first centuries BCE, such as the early treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Jewish Apocalyptic writings, and especially Platonic philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures themselves.1 Gnosticism is the teaching based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism is based on personal religious experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions.0 The meaning of the term Gnosticism is disputed, and there is little scholarly consensus on whether these movements are in fact related and, if so, how.
Gnosticism, secret knowledge. Not the way you described it. Your description is true of Christian faith in the sacrifice Jesus made, salvation for all who believe. Gnosticism deals with extra...extra knowledge not previously known or understood or in addition to the written Word.