What do I need to read if I want to explore Gnosticism?

What do I need to read if I want to explore Gnosticism?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a good starting point.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Gnosticism is not real
      Most of it is platonist intrusions on Marcionite Chrestianity

      Gnosticism is satanic dont fall for the ~~*memes*~~

      Frick off israelites

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nobody asked about israelites.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Catholicism = judaism

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Judaism ≠ Catholicism

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gnosticism is satanic dont fall for the ~~*memes*~~

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But they have the best memes of any religion.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If Gnosticism is wrong, explain why the demiurge got so mad at Adam and Eve for eating from the tree of knowledge and no, "Because he said so" is not an answer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Bro why do you even bother with wannabe Christians

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >demiurge
        It’s just God, and God was mad at them from eating from the tree of knowledge because he knew their hearts. Animals are blameless when they act evil because they don’t understand the concept. Since human beings both do evil, and understand it is evil to do it, they have placed on themselves an irrevocable curse than separates them from God’s kingdom. We may only be redeemed in death.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >ask for explanation of simple concepts of Christian theology
            >ignore it when you get it

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Obviously I'm not the person who asked, genius.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Then why did you respond at all? Frick off moron.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why did you?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Anon maybe an Anonymous board isn't for you...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ok but why was eating from the tree of knowledge evil?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It wasn’t, outside of being a rejection of God’s desires, eating from the tree of knowledge gave humanity an understanding of the difference between good and evil. In doing so, people become culpable for the evil actions. It is not a sin to be naked when you don’t know any better. When you know you are supposed to wear clothes, but walk around naked in public anyways, you are acting indecently. That is the curse knowledge of good and evil out upon mankind. They became culpable for their actions.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >nudity is evil

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don’t know how to tell you this anon but you’re not supposed to flash your wiener in public

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's a cultural more, though. It's not objectively evil in any way.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wikipedia, list of gnostic texts for a start

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Nag Hammadi collection or NT-apocryphia.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html

    >Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      jesus is incredible

      two into one refers to consequence of thought/action, if i think something is wrong i simply dont do it and thats it.

      male and female into one means that everybody is equal thus there is no male/female difference is society regarding things to do or hierarchy

      when you truly do what you preach then you enter the kingdom and become baptized

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        moron you don't know shit.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The creator of the universe is your enemy
    >But luckily, there is a way for a human to defeat a god!
    >Click here to find out more!

    The lengths people go through to keep believing fairy tales is astounding.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    St. Irenaeus' Text "against heresies" details the beliefs of the various heretical sects while making argument against. Reverse engineering from there if one is so inclined would be far easier than trying to interpret their abandoned scrolls

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gnosticsm is great because you get to make your own theology.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yep, just make shit up like the abramics,, historians, atheists, and humanitarians do, yep

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good thread, except for three (3) homosexuals so far.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I HATE THE DEMIURGE

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP here. I do too and I'm trying to figure out what to do with that energy.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pic related is pretty complete, includes the Nag Hammadi texts, Mandean, Manichean and Cathar. Some Sufi texts as well.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Too bad Manichaeism, the most kino gnostic religion, is extinct and we don't have more of their shit written down.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.amazon.com/Other-God-Dualist-Religions-Antiquity/dp/0300082533/ref=sr_1_5

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >flesh is LE BAD
    If it feels good it's good. You can acknowledge the good of the soul without denying the partial good of the material. Why are gnosticucks like this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >let someone else worry about it
      >3 generations later (aka almost 260~280 years) there is no way of going back
      hurrrr why do people dislike degeneracy so much

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like that Spurdo Demiurge is about as popular as the actual ancient images of the demiurge is now.

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