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To: Conservative til I die
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:

So you believe the flesh is evil? The gnostic charge stands then.

Well, that's what the Apostle Paul said...And he even emphasized 'in his flesh' so no one could mis-understand...

So I'm a gnostic, eh???

The Bogomils and Albigensians way back in the 10-12th centuries refused to bow down to the Pope...They didn't pray to Mary, they didn't believe in infant baptism but they did understand the redemption of the corrupt body...

These people were labled as heretics and gnostics and persecuted by your church...

If that's your view of a gnostic, I'll be proud to wear the lable of a gnostic...

63 posted on 09/16/2006 3:42:31 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

Bogomils believed all physical matter was evil, they denied the miracles that Jesus performed, including the multiplication of the loaves and the physical healing ministry. They rejected the Old Testament and gave priority to the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. They rejected infant baptism, not because of some complex justification and grace theology, but because they denied all water baptism (water, being a physical substance, was evil).

Albigensian taught that Christ was an angel with a phantom body who, consequently, did not suffer or rise again, and whose redemptive work consisted only in teaching mankind that gnostic doctrine.


64 posted on 09/16/2006 3:52:50 PM PDT by Nihil Obstat (viva il papa - be not afraid)
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To: Iscool
The Bogomils and Albigensians way back in the 10-12th centuries refused to bow down to the Pope...They didn't pray to Mary, they didn't believe in infant baptism but they did understand the redemption of the corrupt body...

These people were labled as heretics and gnostics and persecuted by your church...

The Bogomils and Albigensians were heretical cults. If you want to throw your lot with them, it's to your own peril
70 posted on 09/17/2006 3:51:50 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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