Sentences with phrase «with gnostic»

With the gnostic manner of Alice's Caterpillar — Lewis Carroll is another point of reference that gets tiresomely hammered home here — Morpheus offers Neo two pills.

The Cathari owed their origin to contacts with another Gnostic group the Bogomili of Bulgaria with whom the Crusades had brought them in contact.

The basic problem with Gnostic dualism is that it severs people and issues into two.

Apocalyptic visions flirt with gnostic aeons and Stoic conflagrations, while affirmations of creation lean toward Pelagian schemes of human progress and Epicurean fixations on the here - and - now.

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.

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.

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

In speaking thus, the New Testament is in agreement with the Gnostics, for they too speak of «this world», and of the princes, prince, or god of this world; and moreover they both regard man as the slave of the world and its powers.

True, St. Paul seems to agree with the Gnostics as regards the effects which he ascribes to the fall of Adam as the ancestor of the human race.

This sense of «handing over» the truth which had been passed down from the Apostles became prominent in the second century battle with the Gnostics.

Christianity is concerned with the truth above all else, and truth for Christians is not an esoteric doctrine, as it was with the Gnostics, but is the Logos pervading the universe.

Not exact matches

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.

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!).

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....

How can anybody truly be gnostic with respect to religion?

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

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.

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.

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...»

Gnosticism deals with knowledge; Gnostic meaning with knowledge and agnostic meaning without knowledge.

By contrast with this vision, embedded as it was in history and actual transformation, the dispensational chart appeared contrived, ahistorical, and almost gnostic in character.

True Gnostics with their avant - garde knowledge know all this just as they know all about those avid and gullible others to whom the Demiurge's aesthetic images guarantee abundance without end if they are bold and clever enough to seize it.

Pastor Silleck thinks I have done some quite terrible things» abandon reason, adopt an «unholy posture,» embrace a «neo «gnostic myth,» and «strike a deal with the devil»» because I believe it highly unlikely, in any foreseeable future, that Lutherans and Catholics will achieve ecclesiastical unity.

I believe they would see the former as corrupted with certain gnostic beliefs that slander God's character and make Him out to be a liar, while the latter would be seen as so corrupted by paganism that it basically boils down to rude idolatry sprinkled with certain Christian beliefs.

The canonic story traces a self that declines tragically from a state misunderstood as apotheosis to total subordination, while the gnostic story elevates the self from a state misunderstood as bondage to union with God.

We take no particular pleasure in engaging the militant feminists and homosexual activists, the Nietzschean deconstructionists and relativists, the enemies of traditional morality and religious faith; indeed, the ongoing conflict with our various utopians and Gnostics is dirty business from which no one emerges with entirely clean hands or uncoarsened sensibilities.

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.

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.

Along with sayings based on the gospels and on known Gnostic traditions, Thomas provides some highly mysterious materials which reflect his theology.

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.

The Gnostic consumes dead matter and makes it live, but when he comes into the light he will have nothing to do with matter.

What a far cry this statement is from a gnostic Neoplatonism wherein to know the One is to huddle alone with the One.

Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Baha'i, Jainists, Gnostics, Vajrayanists, Seicho - no - Ieinists, Cheondoists, and Tenrikyoists are but a few example of other believers with perfectly legitimate «proper» monotheistic theologies.

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).

But he cautions that «the comparison with the Pelagian and Gnostic heresies intends only to recall general common features, without entering into judgments on the exact nature of the ancient errors.»

His theory is better than the gnostic - influenced crap Augustine came up with.

one deals with knowledge (gnostic or a-gnostic) the other deals with belief

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.

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

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

I get what you are saying with the atheist / thieist and gnostic / agnostic terms and I think I woudn't be in any disagreement with the ideas you are convering.

But Paul was, in fact, correcting some proto - Gnostic heretics that claimed women were the cause of humanity's fall and that God was very, very displeased with them.

[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.

It does not reflect the situation of the Church, nor, except for the generalizing conclusion, is it at all concerned with anything specifically gnostic.

As a Christian Gnostic, I don't have a hard time with this cartoon at all; If we read the Gospels carefully, when Jesus asked that He be believed in, it's not in the modern connotation of «I believe in Santa Claus», but in the first century idiomatic, «Trust me enough to emulate me through my teachings».

In the first place, hope has to come to expression in quite specific and concrete sacramental images in order to connect with present reality and thereby to avoid the docetic and gnostic temptations to escape from the present altogether.

The answer to your set of what ifs is that having lost a biblical understanding of ritual and the importance of concrete acts and relationships, we become preoccupied with ideas, which is to say, we become gnostics — which is to say, we become what the (conservative Protestant) American church largely is today.