What Did Gnostic Christians Believe?
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Published 2015-01-21
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All Comments (21)
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Next watch "Mandaeism: The Last Gnostic Religion?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMx_JKJbvJI&feature=youtu.be
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Wow, so "baby-eaters" is a really traditional insult to throw at one's ideological opponents. I feel so connected with my ancestors! <3
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"A Gnostikoi is a nasty boi." -Epiphanius, 4th century C.E.
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Gnostics primarily believed that each person should have their own experience of God (or anything else). Dogma and doctrine were held to be undesirable.
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That fedora in the background troubles me
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I think you forgot the most important thing about the Gnostics... "Gnosis" means experiential knowledge. The Gnostics were more interested in actual communion, or experience of God than a belief system or doctrine. This is why they were called Gnostics.
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Heresy literally means in Greek : " ABLE TO CHOOSE"
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It's less about good vs evil and more about truth vs illusion
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When one leaves out "compassion" one will never find the truth or understand they even found the truth. For only true honest compassion will know a liar.
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The Gnostics were the ones who thought "eating Christ " was absurd
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The creator of this video is an incredibly gifted and intelligent public speaker. Please continue to make similar videos in the future.
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"When soul became aware, her behavior transformed. She looked for foods that give life. She learned about her light as she went about stripping off this world, while her true garment clothed her within. She learned about her depth, and ran into her fold, while her shepherd stood at the door. In return for all the shame and scorn she received in the world, she received ten thousand times the grace and glory." Authoritative Teaching
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My master's thesis in social psychology was very close to this: I studied the Black Sheep Effect (which is the measurably harsher punishments we give to deviant in-group members than to outgroup members). I'd be happy to forward you some articles on that, if you're interested! :)
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I’ve flirted with Gnosticism, but finding out that the monad is important in it really struck me. I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the monad from mathematics
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Thanks for a super informative video. "The Narcissism of Small Differences" was a great thing to highlight. Bless you!
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Have to love how making your enemy out to be a baby muncher is a deep rooted thought that is carried on to this day
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Gnostic is not confined to only 1 set of beliefs. The real tragedy of the internet, is that everyone thinks themselves an expert, and qualified to educate the rest of the world.
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>slander I resent that! Slander is spoken, in print it's libel
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What I love about your videos is, I have no idea what you believe. You keep it factual and about the subject matter. So many of my professors have a difficult time keeping their opinions away from the classroom. I don't study religuon, but political science. I'm there to learn not to be be preached to. Keep it up.
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Remember that Pythagoras and Plato rejected the material world and Aristoteles despised it - that's Christian theology.
