Yes, Nag Hamadi seems to have contained a general library, not solely things they considered valid. Scholars still find it useful to study odd assertions, partly to develop arguments against them.
I heard once that Gnosticism was not so much an “ism” (too many contradictions) as spiritual fiction publishing craze among bored ancient Egyptians. What do you think?
That’s exactly what I was clumsily attempting to say! :-)
It is interesting to note that Dan Brown drew from Gnostic spiritual ideas when he wrote the Da Vinci Code.