2024年10月15日 · The Gnostics, on the other hand, use a variety of early heretical writings known as the Gnostic gospels, a collection of forgeries claiming to be “lost books of the Bible.” Thankfully, the early church fathers were nearly unanimous in recognizing these Gnostic scrolls as fraudulent forgeries that espouse false doctrines about Jesus Christ ...

2022年1月4日 · The definition of the word Gnostic is about as easy to nail down as a flopping fish. It is derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning “to know.”

2024年9月26日 · Docetism was an early Christian heresy that promoted a false view of Jesus’ humanity. The word Docetism comes from the Greek dokein, which meant “to seem”; according to Docetism, Jesus Christ only seemed to have a human body like ours.

2022年1月4日 · The Gnostics fraudulently attached the names of famous Christians to their writings, such as the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Philip, the gospel of Mary, etc. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in southern Egypt in 1945 represented a major discovery of Gnostic gospels.

2024年5月2日 · They, like the Gnostics and other false teachers, abused the doctrine of grace and tried to introduce licentiousness in its place (2 Peter 2:15, 19; Jude 1:4). Jesus commends the church of Ephesus for hating the deeds of the Nicolaitans as He does (Revelation 2:6).

2024年7月25日 · Author: 1, 2, and 3 John have from earliest times been attributed to the apostle John, who also wrote the Gospel of John.

2023年9月1日 · Some Gnostics identify the Demiurge as the God of the Old Testament and place him at odds with the God of the New Testament. Other Gnostics, specifically those in the Valentinian school of thought, identify the Demiurge not as an evil being but as a benevolent (albeit rather ignorant) spirit who rues the fact that the world is corrupt.

2022年1月4日 · Valentinus (AD 100—160) was an early Gnostic theologian.Valentinus was born in Phrebonis, Egypt, but moved to Alexandria as a child.

2024年11月1日 · (Gnostics denied the true humanity of Christ and taught that the human body was evil.) Unfortunately, Irenaeus’ emphasis on Jesus’ human nature inherited from Mary may be seen as the basis for the later elevation of Mary as co-redemptrix, yet that was not at all what Irenaeus had in mind.

2024年3月5日 · Jesus is not God’s Son in the sense of a human father and a son. God did not get married and have a son. God did not mate with Mary and, together with her, produce a son.