Why do people hate gnosticism? As someone who doesn't know much about it, can I get a basic gestalt?
Why do people hate gnosticism? As someone who doesn't know much about it, can I get a basic gestalt?
Aiden Barnes
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Jaxson Mitchell
Gnosticism. From someone who doesn't know.
Jaxson Barnes
literally have no idea. it's pretty neat
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Nicholas Wilson
The god of this world is actually evil and we are trying to escape back to the TRUE GOD.
Carson Miller
In a nutshell it is a dualistic system having two gods, one lesser and one greater. Matter is evil while the incorporeal spirit is good. The path to salvation is through attaining "gnosis", meaning knowledge. Their initiates claim to posses that knowledge.
Andrew Gutierrez
"There are no means for escaping this world
It penetrates even into your sleep
And is its substance
You are caught in your own dreaming
Where there is no space
And are held forever where there is no time
You can do nothing you are not told to do
There is no hope for escape from this dream
That was never yours
The very words you speak are only its very words
And you talk like a traitor
Under its incessant torture"
Joshua Taylor
Humans are extremely limited by their perspective and like to LARP and use philosophical concepts as exercises in trying to simulate its escape.
Elijah Morales
At its simplest, Gnosticism is wanting to understand God by attaining knowledge.
Everything else after that wasn't true Gnosticism.
Also they confuse newage nonsense with ancient Gnosticism.
Luke Davis
Caleb Brown
It's for people who dislike the hierarchic nature of the material reality, which perverts the spirit with its carnal machinations. Gnostics wish to develop the soul-body that will allow them to become free of the mortal coil that enslaves the living and returns the dead to the circle when it can.