One goes to what you know (
gnosticism means «to know» — or as it was used in ancient times, «to have knowledge of god») and one goes to what you believe (theist means to «believe in god» or «a god»).
Not exact matches
If you know about
gnosticism, you know that
means it's incredibly likely to be inaccurate.
Even though the «historical section» or humiliation seems even to disappear from some of these kerygmatic texts, their original intention was to emphasize the meaningfulness of Jesus» historicity or humiliation, and only with
gnosticism was this original
meaning lost.