Sentences with phrase «gnostics who»

This foundational void was first the site of research by the Ancient Gnostics who passed it on to H.P. Lovecraft — like Lucier, a New Englander — and from him to the most advanced of death metal bands.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

Wasn't it the Gnostics who thought they were the possessors of «secret knowledge»?

Not exact matches

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!).

Some Gnostics believe it was someone else, someone called Simon, who was killed on that occasion.»

I would argue that many if not most people who call themselves Christians are gnostic theists, while most people who call themselves atheists are agnostic atheists.

An atheist gnostic is someone who does not believe in gods, and who thinks that we can know that gods do not exist.

I don't know who invented the argument that anybody lower than you on the sacramental realism scale is supposed to be called gnostic, but it's an argument that has caught on.

A theist gnostic is someone who believes in a god / gods and thinks that the existence of gods can be known.

The believer who says no to our historical present, who refuses the existence about and within him, who sets himself against our time and destiny, and yet seeks release in an «eternity» having no relation, or only a negative relation, to our present moment, is succumbing to the Gnostic danger.

This is especially true when Christians live nobly, courageously, and compassionately in service to those who have been most deeply wounded by the Gnostic cultural tsunami and its personally lethal effects.

Despite those critics who cite this fragment of Blake's vision as evidence of a Gnostic hatred of the body, we have only to recall his continual and ecstatic celebration of sexuality and the body to recognize these lines as containing a vision of the regeneration and reversal of a fallen sexuality.

A «gnostic» is one who knows about the existence of god and an «agnostic» is one who thinks that god is unknowable.

Or, you could just call such a person a «gnostic atheist», one who doesn't believe in a god and thinks that his non-belief can be proved.

James the Just is prominent in the Gospel according to the Hebrews, but also among the Naassene Gnostics, who claimed to have traditions derived from him.

The Gnostic and Marcionite position represented one extreme: The entire Old Testament comes from the evil demiurge who trapped humans in materiality.

There can be people who are agnostic atheist, agnostic theist, gnostic atheist and gnostic theist.

Strong atheism is sometimes called «gnostic atheism» because people who take this position often incorporate knowledge claims into it — that is to say, they claim to know in some fashion that certain gods or indeed all gods do not or can not exist.

Such a view would be more appropriate for proponents of ancient gnostic theories, come alive again in our day, than for those who profess a biblical basis for their religion.

But it is especially pertinent to the «Mormons and Southern Baptists [who] call themselves Christians, but like most Americans... are closer to ancient Gnostics than to early Christians.»

A gnostic atheist is one who would say «I know gods do not exist.»

It was they, not the Marcionite or gnostic Christians, who developed a communal life strong enough to become the great majority and win the Empire, despite their lack of social, economic, intellectual, political or military power.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

J. N. D. Kelly has described his contribution as «the twofold one of expounding the truth against (a) the crude literalism which pictured the body as being reconstituted, with all its physical functions, at the last day, and (b) the perverse spiritualism of the Gnostics and Manichees, who proposed to exclude the body from salvation».43

The extreme stances would be the gnostic atheist who is convinced that God can't exist and the gnostic theist that is convinced that God has to exist and knows a bunch of details about Him.

In practical terms then what you would describe as a gnostic theist would be one who would, say have an ineerant view of scripture.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

[61] This affirmation comes in his treatise which has been devoted to the explication and refutation of various «heresies» including that of Simon Magus and the Simonians, Nicolaus and the Nicolaitans, Meander, Cerinthus (in the Apostolic and sub-Apostolic era) Carpocrates and the Carpocratians, Saturninus, Basilides and the Basilidians, Credo or Cerdon, Valentinus and the Valentinians (who were Gnostic teachers of the second century [62]-RRB-, and other teachers and sects of the second century including Marcion and the Marcionites, the Ebionites and the Encratites.

Ancient Gnostic Christians were a large and influential branch of the early Church who believed that the physical world was a lower, less perfect creation than the high, pure spiritual world.

Many Gnostics apparently identified with the «seed of Seth,» including tile believers who used the Apocalypse of Adam, perhaps the oldest writing in the Nag Hammadi Library.

Scholars who have doubted that Gnostic redeemer myths could have influenced the Gospel of John's Imagery of Jesus as the heavenly redeemer often cite European scholar Carsten Colpe as having debunked the thesis soundly in 1960.

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.

Most Gnostic belief systems (they are impossibly convoluted) featured a rogue god who violated orders and made humanity.

He mentions those who criticize his previous work as being Gnostic and dualistic and confesses that they have some ground for their criticism.

He repeats the denunciation which Jude hurled at the gnostic libertines of his day, only it is now directed against those who are giving up the expectation of the second coming.

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.

In opposition to the Gnostics, who were concerned only with the Christos, the Fourth Gospel bears witness to the earthly Jesus as the bearer of the glory of God.

Historically, this understanding was developed by various Gnostic sects who believed that evil was a separate force in the universe alongside and in constant conflict with God.

... or just believe the next piece of garbage somebody digs up from some gnostic heap instead of the 500 people who testified that Jesus rose from the dead.

The only groups within Christian history that are not evangelical at bottom are those who deny apostolic Christianity or those who so thoroughly reinterpret it through their conceptual grid (i.e., Gnostics, anti-supernatural liberals) that it ceases to retain integrity with apostolic intent.

This was typical of the Gnostics, who had to supply each of their acons and their emanations with a genealogy and a history.

Ignatius (The Letter to Smyrna 6:2) says of the Gnostics of his day: «They give no heed to love, caring not for the widow, the orphan, the afflicted, neither for those who are in bonds, neither for the hungry nor the thirsty.»

The Gnostics divided men into two classes, the pneumatikoi, the spiritual ones, for whom such knowledge is a possibility and to whom such knowledge is open, and the psuchikoi, those who, as it were, have no more than an animal soul, and for whom such knowledge is impossible and to whom such knowledge is a closed book.

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

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.

Originally, Gnostics simply called themselves, «Knowledge seekers» as Gnosis means Knowledge, the idea being, if Truth is ONE, then all Knowledge Seekers who GENUINELY seek the truth, should eventually end up at the same view, but by their own paths.

The «prohibition against asking questions», currently being practiced by proponents of «consensus» Climate Science, is a polemical device of modern gnostics — i.e. of those who preach Salvation through the acquisition of Hidden Knowledge, in the form of Systems constructed by the Enlightened Elite — as part of intellectual swindles in a variety of venues, all focused on obtaining political power.

That has not deterred the climate Gnostics, sustained by their mystical insight into inner truths hidden from sceptics («deniers» in their language of anathema) and, increasingly, from scientists who have not taken the IPCC shilling.