GNOSTICISM
Definition
The theory of salvation by knowledge.
Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Seeking direct knowledge of God is discouraged by way of the scary, pagan-esque word gnosticism, that way the folks defer to the self-appointed keepers of knowledge who are threatened by independent-minded students. The Establishment scam is up across the board, regardless of the particular man-made Establishment. "D.C." has been connected to "David's Capital" for a reason.
The Bible describes a simple, kind, industrious Messiah who has a broad every-man knowledge-base of practical skills, a righteous work ethic, and a vast capacity to love. He's the blueprint of salvation.
Like he cares about all the bling and blather that has been generated "in Jesus' name" for Jesus. Materialists giving gifts to a materialistic Jesus, not the real one who just wants to love and heal people. Worship of superficial nonsense has got to be right up there on the list of the social diseases that he needs to cure. There's the salvation by knowledge. It's not a theory.
Knowledge is truth. Jesus is The Word. He IS, or “I Am” the information creation consist of. He IS The Way, The Truth and The Life. He IS God. No one can be what He IS and not be God. He is not merely a saviour, He iS God who IS our one and only Saviour.
Everything about Jesus IS God, who loved us so much He become flesh to become our unblemished lamb of God 5sacrifice, dying to pay the horrific price of our sins. He isn’t just a blueprint, He IS our salvation, our LORD, Saviour and God.
He IS everything we need, but without Him, the true Him, not just a happy, benign, humanistic version of Him, painted by our own desire for an imaginary super friend, we will surely die in our sins. We will be unclean eternal exiles, unfit to live in God’s eternal Kingdom, existing separated from God, tormented in the lake of fire and brimstone forever.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 28:19 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the HolyGhost: