Sentences with phrase «many gnostic»

The redefinition of marriage to exclude the difference between male and female bodies is deeply symbolic of this Gnostic revolution, which is why it's a focal point.

Salvation occurs as the Gnostic awakens (ahem!)

Each step in this retreat from the body reinforces the Gnostic claim that God cares only about the soul, that what is right and good and holy transcends the body, that the created order is no order at all.

Are you turning Gnostic / Kabalist?

The sexual revolution has been a Gnostic one.

Instead, it has Sex Week, an occasion to catechize tomorrow's leaders in the Gnostic dogma that our bodies — and the bodies of others universally available under the sole limitation of consent — are there for us to do with as we wish.

Agnostic / Gnostic refer to knowledge.

Since you seem to be mixed up about what Agnostic / Gnostic and Atheist / Theist mean I will repeat so you don't confuse those terms again.

At the end, having agonized through much of the poem over the questions posed by his gnostic favorites, he comes back much more strongly to a defense of the categories of Christian worship.

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

And even Christianity, a religion founded on the notion, had its deniers as well» most notably the Gnostics.

Here he cites the gnostic sources to which he turned.

After rehearsing all his anguished questions and the gnostic solutions to which he had sometimes turned along the way, he finishes with a serene prayer to the Beautiful Lady and takes children as his model.

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!).

It also is used in Gnostic and other fringe - cult «gospels» to refer to Mary Magdalene.

For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»

And in Gnostic gospels - many of which were written in Coptic - Jesus referred to Mary Magdalene as his wife.

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

By dismissing the possibility that God doesn't exist you are taking a Gnostic stance.

Some gnostics claim Judas a hero... some claim him a goat.

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

The ones from the gnostic gospels are fascinating as well.

He refuses to be gnostic.

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....

Had the Gnostics won the day, the Church's ties to the synagogue would have been greatly impoverished.

Gnostic / Agnostic refers to knowledge... what you can know or not know.

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

Agnostic / Gnostic isn't about «belief», it's about «knowledge».

Milosz's long testimonial poem also reveals his gnostic leanings.

How can anybody truly be gnostic with respect to religion?

These three poems may help us to understand Milosz's ultimate message in the Treatise — namely, his choice to «sing with them,» his fellow Christians, despite the fact that he is naturally a skeptic, and despite his lengthy grappling with gnostic theories.

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

Thus the dislocation of sign from reality by nominalism makes ready the manipulations of gnostic intellect.

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.

And there are probably a lesser number of hard core Gnostic Atheists (or true Atheists).

She may have had a falling out with James the Just as well as other disciples after Jesus» death, as she never appears again after the «discovery» at the tomb, although there is a gnostic «gospel» attributed to her.

Or it could mean the gospels are garbage and the original true story was with the Gnostics.

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

These terms have been watered down, and most (not all) people equate them as follows: - Most Christian / Muslim / Hindu / Pagan = a Gnostic Theist = Know of god's existence / non-existence, and believe in god.

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.

I'm sure the «I see the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast» crowd considers themselves to be gnostic, but the reality is that none of us are.

The writer of the Gospel of John was a Gnostic.

this web site does nt really put christians in a good light as far as acceptance of the 2nd largest religion... islam... and that category is shared with catholics, restorationists, gnostics and episcopalians... so do nt flatter your self too much.

Sounds very Gnostic to me.

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?

It began with the Egyptian Thoth, then translated into Greek, it was carried by the Gnostics, then through the Order of the Golden Robe, the 4 versions of Tarot, and finally into the «free thinkers...»

This has devolved into a shorthand: I am a Christian / Muslim / Pagan / Hindu et al (Most times means: I am a gnostic theist); I am an atheist (Most time means: I am an agnostic atheist); I am agnostic (Most times means: I am an agnostic theist).

It will no longer do for New Testament scholars to place the Roman emperor amongst the ranks of divine men, gnostic redeemers, divinized heroes and other assorted and «Hellenistic» characters and then dismiss his significance by reason of the disreputable company that he keeps.

The libertine and ascetic Gnostics strike us as being incompatible heretics, however in the act of day - by - day living each may have slipped into the other's territory.

A confirmed Gnostic would recognize in these words that the Demiurge, having seduced McKenna into a categorical choice for abundance, still had the situation well in hand.