Gnostic vs. Christianity

If it was on a TV show, don't you think the evil Christians would have stopped it also? It's a big conspiracy.

 

Are you seriously using a TV show as a serious source?

At least name the TV show. Or would the Christian propagandists erase it off the web?

 

And on the whole issue, the Pope could rescind the rule on celibacy tomorrow. It's not a matter of dogma, but is a choice of the Church. Some of the Eastern rites of the Catholic Church (like the Maronites, for example, which are not Eastern Orthodox) are fully in union with the Pope, and they do allow married men to become priests (still don't allow priests to marry, which is a slightly different thing).

 

I know it doesn't, but you know that is what is taught...

 

Could be, but I don't think so. New people would just be new... Because there would be no authority. What would they have authority over?

 

Evil Christians do not run the television... The Jews do...

 

oh good grief.

The Gnostic Christians, if they can truly be described as Christians, held a distinctly different view of the Bible, of Jesus Christ, of salvation, and of virtually every other major Christian doctrine. However, they did not have any writings by the Apostles to give legitimacy to their beliefs.

That is why and how the Gnostic gospels were created. The Gnostics fraudulently attached the names of famous Christians to their writings, such as the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Philip, the gospel of Mary, etc. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in northern Egypt in 1945 represented a major discovery of Gnostic gospels. These Gnostic gospels are often pointed to as supposed "lost books of the Bible."
They are frauds and imposters and mini anti-christs.

 

Let get this straight... The Anti-Christ believes in equality between man and woman?

 

It was never taught to me. I'm a 46 yr old Catholic.

My understanding, it was once taught (Middle Ages), but is not taught any more.

 

The early church in general was not united on any of these matters. For example, there was no one official Christian viewpoint on the nature of Jesus until the 4th century. The matter of salvation was never resolved at all--even once the Catholics thought they'd managed it, Luther came around and shook things up again. Virtually all "major Christian doctrine" has debate and dissension surrounding it, even to the present. About the only thing that can be said about "major Christian doctrines" is that they apparently don't actually exist, and that each group of Christians has their own beliefs about these major Christian subjects, and each can be supported by different interpretations of the bible.

It all really comes down to the fact that the people who try to claim authority over what is and is not Christian are all wrong, because there will be some examples of Christians who disagree with them. A religion without disagreement and debate is a dead religion.

That's how the gospels in general were created. The same process created Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

There's other examples of apocrypha presented as lost books of the bible that have nothing to do with gnosticism. Early Christianity was very vibrant and very diverse; that's very evident from the sheer number of "gospels" they created.

Their view was no more fraudulent than your own; possibly less, since at least their view had more temporal proximity to the events in question.

 

I go to churches and have been many religions, and I have heard it from all of them that claim Christian..