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Originally Posted by Solon
Nice.
I should add that the word "gnostic" gets thrown around like it was a standard set of beliefs, when it seems to have been a smorgasbord of all sorts of ideas, some of them really kooky.
I tend to think the gnostics were a Christian version of Hellenistic mystery cults, such as Isis or Mithras or Orpheus or Eleusis.
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I think you will agree they had no scruple against creating scripture that deliberately immitated earlier gospels and pretended to be based on eyewitness accounts. The Gospel of Judus a prime example. This seems to be a signature trait of Gnostics to this day.
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