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Originally Posted by JackHighFlop
Isn't Christian gnosticism differentiating itself by saying that Jesus is the son or an envoy of the Real God, while other gnosticism don't necessarily make that claim?
They believe everything to be true, but don't acknowledge the God of the Old Testament as the supreme deity.
I see the Gnostics as not believing in a Deity of any kind and remaining pure seekers until they forced their apotheosis. Only after contact with the Godhead do they believe in anything other than what can be known by the senses. Even then, he will recognize that there is nothing worth worshipping.
Nothing or no one is given a higher standard than man.
Who but man after all, can give voice to the thoughts of God.
BTW, there is still much confusion to what true Gnostics beliefs were.
They went from supermen to slaves to whoever wanted to learn.
Any true Gnostic who had an apotheosis though could not be moved from his beliefs because his faith was built on facts as compared to others whose beliefs were based on faith alone without facts.
Faith without facts. to them, was for fools.
Regards
DL