gnosticism

  1. The Liturgist

    Orthodox Christians As The Victims Of Heretical Sects

    This originated as a reply to a thread, but grew a bit too large, so I made it a blog post. Indeed, it is true that Roman Pagans accused the early Christians of cannibalism, based on a misunderstanding of the Eucharist. Pagan accusations of gross sexual immorality were probably the result of...
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  2. K

    How do we rule out the possibility of Gnosticism being true?

    Mainstream (Catholic and Orthodox) theology is defended with arguments that, essentially, tend to boil down to appealing to the writings of the Apostolic fathers. According to many Christians, these writings in combination with the gospels give the most comprehensive view of the original...
  3. rakovsky

    Is the "Testament of Adam" a Gnostic text?

    The Testament of Adam was composed in Syriac from around 100 AD to about the 5th Century AD. In the Testament, Adam retells to his son Seth God's revelations to Adam. The first part (Chapters 1-2) of the Testament narrates the events that occur at each hour of the day, like angels praising God...
  4. Nick Moser

    What is the Church's position on Hermeticism

    What does the Church think of the Free Masons, Traditionalist(Evola and Guèron), Mormons, and the Rosicrucian?
  5. 1 John 4:1

    Theory on the Number of the Beast

    EDIT in the poll, please select all that apply. So if you select "man-made Torah" and "man-made Christ" select "both of the above" as well. Apologies as I don't have the most scholarly sources for everything yet since I'm still fleshing out the evidence for this. If you can disprove anything in...
  6. Dr. Bill Thomas

    Gnostic Discussion

    What the gnostic books reveal is that the gnostic style of faith is a different way to be Christian. It is to reject the fundamentalist's way to simply "believe" and that is it! It rejects the Biblical literalists, rejects those who say just accept the Creeds, rejects those who say orthodox...
  7. Lauris

    Intelligent MALEVOLENT design?

    Hi! This is coming from a curious nonbeliever. I've been seriously pondering the theory of abiogenesis and Darwinian macroevolution, and found them wanting. It does seem more intuitive to me to believe there is an intelligence behind creation, than everything is sheer randomness (not to...
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