Sentences with phrase «not gnostic»

But we (my husband and I and our home church) are Christian, not gnostic.

Western church fathers condemned him as a gnostic, but he was not a gnostic except in that he thought that matter was evil.

Reinhold Niebuhr's under standing of salvation was fundamentally individualistic, if not gnostic.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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!).

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The true Gnostic, knowing the wiles of the Demiurge, is not about to be taken in by the pseudo-Gnostic promise of a new consciousness by way of McKenna's golden mushrooms.

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.

One thing the Gnostics believed was that Jesus wasn't fully human, but only appeared human.

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.

Consequently, a faith which nostalgically clings to a lost past, a past having no integral relation to our present, can not escape the charge of Gnosticism; for a total refusal of our destiny can only be grounded in a Gnostic negation of the world.

Whether you are arrogant or ignorant, Gnostic or Atheist, it simply does nt matter!

Hippolytus of Rome, early in the third [46] century CE, referenced the gnostic Valentinus as having followed 1 John in naming God as «wholly love,» in relation to which «love is not love unless there is something loved.»

It was a belief held by several of the gnostic groups, but not by the church.

He also frequently noted that «gnostic,» as he used the term, referred to a general orientation, not to specific historical groups or their teachings.

You can either believe Paul's version of the Gospel or you can believe in the Gnostic version, but you can't believe both.

II 24.6, that this parable was much used by Gnostics, and, both in Thomas and in the Gospel of Truth where a version of it is also to be found, it has become so much a vehicle for expressing gnostic teaching that the versions do not help us to reconstruct the teaching of Jesus (for a good discussion of the meaning and use of this parable in its gnostic setting, see B. Gärtner, Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, pp. 234 ff.)

The writer of the 4th gospel was not, and obviously had a Greek Gnostic education.

I'm left with the nagging fear that the old cranks have been right all along, and with the worse fear that I'm the Gnostic, fantasizing that I can shield my self from my body's failings, soldier through, pretend it's not happening.

If you've ever wondered why the Gnostic Gospels aren't in the Holy Bible, this is one really good reason.

He enjoys that power of which the Gnostic boasts, but with the proviso: «All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any» (1 Cor.

To discover that a parish has, for example, an empiric - gnostic orientation may be a helpful recognition, but that finding alone does not identify the whole range of motifs and images by which a local church understands its world.

He may not have been the Jesus that your mother believes in or the Jesus of the stained - glass window or the Jesus of your least favorite televangelist or the Jesus proclaimed by the Vatican, the Southern Baptist Convention, the local megachurch, or the California Gnostic.

As it stands in Thomas, the parable teaches the gnostic conception `... that most men have no idea what treasure they have within themselves and so not everyone finds the treasure hid in his field — discovers the divine self within.»

So, one Gnostic interpretation of the Cain and Abel story might be that it isn't really about Cain's wickedness at all.

Gnostic - 100 % certainity; Agnosticism - maybe, maybe not; Theist - believes in god; Atheist doesn't believe in god.

One might very well read his protest not as a brief for atheism, but as a kind of demythologized Gnostic manifesto, an accusation flung in the face of the demiurge.

To state that you are not that, is a Gnostic Theist... and then we know you're insane!

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.

This Kingdom is not in heaven or (for that matter) in the sea; instead, it is within the Gnostic (cf. Luke 17:21) and the Gnostic is within it; he comes to it by knowledge of himself, i.e. of his true nature as a son of the Living Father (3).

While our worship songs are not individually Gnostic, they get very close by avoiding tangible terms in their lyrics, leaving the impression that the everyday is too banal for God.

It may be possible to show, however, that (1) sayings reported in Thomas but not in the canonical gospels reflect special (e.g., Gnostic) tendencies, while (2) sayings reported in Thomas and in the canonical gospels have come from the canonical gospels to Thomas.

It is also interesting that there were Gnostic women priests and may have been a Gnostic woman bishop, had Tertullian not introduced traditional mysogyny into the early Christian church.

Certainly the low Christology of the Qur» an matches well with some forms of Gnostic teaching: Jesus was not crucified (a substitute was found) and therefore was not resurrected; God instead snatched him up to immediate ascension.

Other Gnostic writings say that while a human being named Jesus did actually die, the divine part of him, or the Christ, did not.

Other than that, we aren't going to have any special «gnostic» revelations.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

He would not defy science on romantic or gnostic grounds.

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.

For Buber the real distinction is not between a naïve acceptance of the world and the experiencing of its tragedy, but between the Gnostic belief in a contradiction that cuts the world off from God and the Jewish belief that «tragedy» can be experienced in the dialogical situation, that the contradiction can become a theophany.

However, according to preliminary reports, the Gospel of Thomas from Nag Hammadi actually contains a considerable body of sayings of Jesus, some of which are not purely of gnostic invention, but are of a type similar to those in the Synoptics.