The gnostics were simply anti-Christians. They are not credible. I believe this is supported by mainstream historians and other scholars (which doesn’t include Hollywood types like Bill Maher).
Uh, not. there were many different groups of Christians and it is well known that ultimately the catholic church and Orthodox church “won out”...then we have Luther.
Most scholars of the Bible that are ‘mainstream” agree that the gnostic documents at least raise the ability to question the origins of the Christian faith, which by the way, does not hurt my belief in Jesus.