Gnostic

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The Gnostic version began long before the creation of the material world when God the true God from whom Christ came was all that existed The God of Gnosticism was utterly beyond human

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Many of the so called gnostic groups are characterized by a mythology that distinguishes between an inferior creator of the world a demiurge and a more transcendent god or order of being

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Gnostic noun gnos tic n stik variants often Gnostic an adherent of gnosticism gnostic adjective often Gnostic

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Gnostic beliefs often conflicted with early Christian doctrine leading to their condemnation as heretical by church leaders Gnosticism emphasized a dualistic worldview viewing

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In the Gnostic view there is a true ultimate and transcendent God who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word create is ordinarily understood

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Much of early Christianity was consumed with refuting gnostic theology The gnostics were not a single uniform group Gnosticism began in second century Christianity and had many

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The Gnostics were concerned with the basic questions of existence or being in the world Dasein that is who we are as human beings where we have come from and where we are

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The gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity the demiurge and that Christ represented the remote supreme divine being Also that esoteric

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The texts found at Nag Hammadi are often grouped together as Gnostic because they reflect these themes especially the idea that Jesus teachings contain meaning that is internally