Sentences with phrase «like gnostic»

This sounds somewhat like Gnostic Dualism.

What you are saying sounds a lot like Gnostic dualism that was condemned by many in the early church.

This sounds like Gnostic heresy to me.

like Gnostics, Mormons and Muslims there an offshoot of Christianity

Like the Gnostics, Marcion disparaged all things material and corporeal.

Not exact matches

The first I should like to call the Gnostic model, the other the Christian model.

Moreover, after Christ death, there were several competing groups of Christians each with their own version of Chrisitanity... (Much like today lol) Such as the gnostic gospels, and others that were destroyed by order of Roman emperors....

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

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?

Yet there is something like faith in his fascination with the Gnostic picture of things as they are, always have been, and always will be.

Were I to follow what I would call the comic or gnostic vein in Schleiermacher's thought, I would gain the assurance that I, like any other single entity, am actually resolved in the eternal.14 All things, including my cancer, are really signs, miracles in themselves that signify the encompassing One.

Or, one could take a more Gnostic approach and turn the whole story round on Yahweh, indicting him, as did early Christian ministers like Valentinus.

Like Marcion, a Christian heretic excommunicated in the second century, the Gnostics repudiated the depiction of God in the Hebrew Scriptures, beginning with the affirmation in Genesis 1 that the whole creation of earth and the heavens is good.

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.»

Among the new Gnostics, the confession of faith might go «We like Jesus and he lets us do anything we like.»

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

The early Gnostic Christians use to drink sperm and treat it like communion wine.

Life control, birth control, death control — there is a controlling logic here, a gnostic «worldly» wisdom that does not like the world we have been given and by supreme effort seeks to construct a world that can be controlled.

The people calling me a gnostic can not understand that I am a psychologist, describing modes of psychical behaviour precisely like a biologist studying the instinctual activities of insects.

Summation: I reject both the view that Jesus had to learn ONLY like a human to become God and I also reject the Gnostic view that Jesus was not human at all and was completely divine at all times.

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.

It's in Gnostic writings like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas where the child Jesus is a supernatural prodigy, incapable of error though prone to fits of vengeance against adults and other children.

For some, the danger comes from a gnostic direction — abstracting from a particular time and place, and simply expunging the specific traces of that particularity (such as language like «father»).

... 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.

One of the recent additions to this pantheon seems like a perfect fit: the William Blake Docs, offering your «choice of gnostic kicks for a night out,» as Dangerous Minds quips.

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.