Sentences with phrase «gnostic texts»

From Egypt has been found several Gnostic texts.

No; there are plenty of other gnostic texts that contradict mainstream christian belief, and another wont change anything

The Gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 reveal the richness of the oxymoronic use of terms to designate the Deity.

Now he confesses hostility to Catholic belief and sympathy for «Gnostic texts that allow women a discipleship and see Jesus more as a spiritual person and not as a demigod.»

However, the gnostic texts attribute no special content to the revelations to Mary.

Even though it had the opportunity to survey many gnostic texts in circulation at the time the canon became fixed, we may conjecture that the Church finally left these off the list because of their failure to embody the balanced kind of hope and deep sense of mystery's futurity that we find in the canonical books.

In the Nag Hammadi Library, found in Egypt, 1945, a number of Gnostic texts were found.

Here Milosz is explaining and justifying his turn to gnostic texts for help.

Did you know that the Gospel of Thomas is a late Gnostic text that just about anyone with an education doesn't take seriously (nor, pretty much anyone with familiarity with the Bible who has actually read it!).

Could the text be one gnostic text from centuries after jesus» life that got nothing to do (like most gnostic stuff) with the actual Jesus, and is just recycled Platonic philosophy?

Of course Christians use the Bible but they also use commentaries, original writngs, gnostics texts, archaeology, anthropology, history among the hard science / evidence.

Worth a read, and nothing for Christians to be worried about, as it is yet another late, 4th century Gnostic text.

Ancient Egyptian Coptic gospel of Jesus» wife can be genuine or forged Coptic — Gnostic text, but in every case, it is the false text as the purpose to distort genuine Biblical gospels.

Not exact matches

Except this is a Coptic text from the 2nd - 4th century, and likely from the Gnostic communities there - in which case, it could be a reference to an actual wife, or a metaphorical discussion.

This view is a little too mystical (or maybe even Gnostic) for most Christians, and yet it can not be proven or disproven from the text any more than the traditional view that God killed an animal to make clothes for Adam and Eve.

Marvin Meyer's slim anthology provides readable translations of the basic texts from the New Testament and gnostic writings.

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

However, Robinson noted that Colpe enthused in a 1974 article over the «stupendous parallels» to the prologue of John in a Gnostic «classic» in the Nag Hammadi collection — the heaven - sent Logos of the Father who makes frequent «I am» statements in the text Trimorphic Protennoia.

Perhaps some of that will be learned from texts of the Essenes or Gnostics or Zoroastrians as we learn more.

Bock agreed with the notion that the text fragment shared similarities with those gospels, called the Gnostic Gospels, which were the writings of an early outlier sect of Christians.

Questions, Fact: It was only later, in the 100's AD when the Gnostics began circulating their own texts and claiming apostolic authorship, that the true church decided that it became necessary to weed out all heresies that desired to creep into the canon, so they developed a standard test to determine the canonicity of scripture.

Indeed, in early Gnostic communities the data did mean almost anything, since the Gnostics were not adherents of the visible Church and were therefore free to interpret New Testament texts in a wholeheartedly subjective way.

For in this very text and a related place71 Clement goes on to say that though the Christian gnostic or seeker will conform to church life as it is ordered by the ordained clergy, spiritually, he is already on his way to becoming himself an angel, indeed, divine: