Gnostics believe there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, a being who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word ‘create’ is ordinarily understood. ... Gnosticism does believe that not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation.
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Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware. It became one of the three main belief systems within 1st century Christianity, and was noted for four factors by which differed from the two other branches of Christianity:
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These are what we believe, these are the rituals, which you first do. You're baptized and then you're a member of this community. It would be absurd to suggest that the leaders of the church were out to protect their power. ... What did gnostics believe happened at the time of the crucifixion?
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Gnostics believe there is a transcendent, unknowable being simply called the "True Father" or "Living Father." From this being came a number of other beings: the Mother, the Autogenes (in some texts), and a multitude of celestial entities.
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I have read the Lost Gospel (Acts of Philip and the Gospel Mary) and have read that Jesus believe the God of the Old Testament wasn't the true God. There is an explination, but I don't have enough characters to explain it. ... If I have this right: Gnostics believed that the God that created the Earth was the evil one,
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In the aftermath of the war, when the Gnostics condemned the Jewish God as the Demiurge, many of the brethren were unhappy. ... A closer look at the glib assertion that the Jesus story "got off the ground quickly and spread rapidly."; What DID the Early Christians Believe?;
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A resource for many views of Gnosticism. Includes articles and links. ... Gnosis refers to a knowledge that is essential to free oneself from the evil material world and bodily existence (Crim: 277). Gnostics believe humans err because they are ignorant, unlike the Christian belief that man is sinful by nature.
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‘Gospel of Judas’ and Jesus – What did the Gnostics really believe? ... Layton stresses that Gnostic polytheism, for all its heterogeneity, was readily enough understood by the Gnostics themselves. The point, however, is that the Jews who founded Christianity did not intend to repudiate their ancestral monotheism.
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