To: Enterprise
The writers were Gnostics, who claimed having a secret knowledge about the universe, who claimed to be Christians but also claimed they had a secret knowledge passed directly from Christ about the universe.
It other works, they were trying to peddle the same crap in a new wrapper and the Councils knew it.
43 posted on
11/04/2007 8:22:37 PM PST by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: FormerLib
"claimed they had a secret knowledge passed directly from Christ about the universe" They probably claimed the earth revolved around the sun.
62 posted on
11/05/2007 5:57:48 AM PST by
Enterprise
(Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
To: FormerLib
The Gnostics were a group of CHristian mystics and a lot of what they believed appeared to derive from Dualistic theories rooted in Zoroasttrianism and other Middle Eastern beliefs.
Given the fact that so little of what they DID believe has survived, a lot of what we know about them and their beliefs are filtered through the eyes, minds, and hands of their opponents.
108 posted on
11/08/2007 11:51:55 PM PST by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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