[Poison Pill]

You can see elements of that thinking in Paul. I wouldn’t go so far as to call Paul a Gnostic, but he certainly has leanings.

[fidelis]

Do you have some examples? It seems he rather speaks against it in passages such as 1 Timothy 6:20:

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge (γνώσεως gnōseōs)"