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To: MarkBsnr; Frumanchu; Alex Murphy; xzins; P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg
"...but what the Gnostics were promoting was not the true knowledge of God as taught by the Apostles, but a sort of esoteric pseudo-knowledge or mysticism derived from personal, direct spiritual experiences which they took to be Divine revelation.

This is TOOOOOOOO precious.

10,055 posted on 10/29/2007 10:55:44 AM PDT by HarleyD (Ezr 3:13 the people could not distinguish the sound of joy from the sound of weeping)
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To: HarleyD

Precious, yes, but not too precious.

Only God is ultimately precious.


10,059 posted on 10/29/2007 11:39:35 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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