hosepipe said, “WRONG.. the wreckage is because of socialism not gnostism..
Jesus never used the word or even the meme of heresy..
Heresy is a mental construct of the Sheep Pens..(John ch 10)..
Spirited: Paul tells us that ultimately, there are but two spiritual foundations on which every religion throughout time and around the world are based. He describes these two foundations like this, “Either you will worship and serve creation, or you will worship and serve the living Creator of creation.
The latter is of course, the worldview foundation on which Christendom and later on America were based. The former is monism, which like a coin has two sides: materialism and pantheism. On that foundation rest all ‘pagan-monist’ worldview systems and their subsequent civilizations.
One of the most fundamental answers supplied by worldview is to the question: “What is man?” Depending on the answer, there will arise a moral, cultural, and socio-economic system.
As we look around our world we can’t help but notice the utter misery under which very large numbers of people live in animist-pantheist civilizations, like India, for example. Symbolically, India’s civilization is pyramid shaped with the smallest, highest caste at the top and in descending order,the lowest, largest castes occupying perhaps the lower half or more. This dreadful system exists because the pantheist view of man is so debased.
Socialism-communism is in reality, a pyramid shaped cultural, socio-economic system based on an equally—if not more so— debased view of man-—a neo-pagan/gnostic view of man.
On an ideological level we say the wreckage is because of socialism. But at the deepest level of meaning, the cause of the wreckage is spiritual-—spiritual disease. And the descriptive word used to describe and categorize this spiritual disease is gnosticism.
One must be careful of ones "knowing" a deeper "knowing"..
Cause they might not know as much as they think they do..
Most parents of children eventually learn this.. some do not..
The parents that do not, think they have the smartest kids..