Sentences with phrase «gnostic teaching»

Gnostic teaching, with its emphasis on spirit and its condemnation of matter, came preaching either that it did not matter what a man does with his body, or that it was nothing less than a duty to give the fleshly nature its full sway.

This antinomianism was a characteristic feature of Gnostic teaching, and it issued in the most deliberate and licentious immorality.

That also meant most Gnostic teaching was thoroughly anti-Semitic.

Many of the texts included in these codices contain gnostic teaching.

Certainly the low Christology of the Qur» an matches well with some forms of Gnostic teaching: Jesus was not crucified (a substitute was found) and therefore was not resurrected; God instead snatched him up to immediate ascension.

II 24.6, that this parable was much used by Gnostics, and, both in Thomas and in the Gospel of Truth where a version of it is also to be found, it has become so much a vehicle for expressing gnostic teaching that the versions do not help us to reconstruct the teaching of Jesus (for a good discussion of the meaning and use of this parable in its gnostic setting, see B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, pp. 234 ff.)

Writers of the New Testament (the apostles) condemned the Gnostic teachings.

In the Greek language, gnosis means knowledge, so the Gnostics taught that in order to really receive all that God wanted for you, you had to be inducted into a special and deeper knowledge of God.

Not exact matches

El Flaco, technically this was not the teaching of the Church scholars but gnostic writings from first centuries of Christianity.

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

The Gnostics have had multiple false teachings, many of which survive to this day.

The exact same arguments the gnostics put forth to explain their beliefs are the same teachings you hear today in calvinistic circles.

He also frequently noted that «gnostic,» as he used the term, referred to a general orientation, not to specific historical groups or their teachings.

As it stands in Thomas, the parable teaches the gnostic conception `... that most men have no idea what treasure they have within themselves and so not everyone finds the treasure hid in his field — discovers the divine self within.»

Their author writes to warn the churches against false teachings, particularly the claims of entire sanctification and the Gnostic heresies asserting a special illumination, which were upsetting them and causing divisions.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

It contained three gnostic writings, which purported to present the teachings of the risen Jesus and part of an apocryphal work about Peter.

As a Christian Gnostic, I don't have a hard time with this cartoon at all; If we read the Gospels carefully, when Jesus asked that He be believed in, it's not in the modern connotation of «I believe in Santa Claus», but in the first century idiomatic, «Trust me enough to emulate me through my teachings».

There were people in John's day who taught a form of Gnostic dualism which taught that some sin came as a result of being born of God.

I told them that to me, this sounds a lot like the ancient Gnostic and Docetic heresies which taught that Jesus wasn't fully human.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

He thought of the old order of teachers as each a «Peter» by gnostic faith and as compositely embodying the teaching authority of the Church.

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.