4.5 The Heresies – Gnosticism: Christ as Cosmic Mind | Way of the Fathers

The heresy of docetism evolved into a complicated web of schools of mythology, which we lump together under the name of gnosticism. These all still denied the real humanity of Christ, though in two distinct ways. Docetic gnosticism continued the trend of seeing Christ as a phantom, with no real tangible body. “Hybrid” gnosticism made concessions to the accounts of a tangible body of Jesus, but called it an ethereal, or luminous, body - in other words, not a true material flesh and blood body.

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[ComeSonOfGodCome]

Hello, keep praying the Rosary for
conversion. World peace coming soon.

[collinskanazache]

On this episode

I'm enjoying from season 1 ep 1

[DroppyTup]

I went through a phase of being interested in Gnosticism back in 2019. I read a lot of these gnostic books.

[dannyhuskerjay]

the greatest of threats to the great church. Scary to think how many souls were lost because of the "other gospels"

we also find out that gnostics were big in arabia and one of Mohamud's teachers was a gnostic "Christian". Reason Islam has so much references to the gnostic gospels(Christ Being the spirit of God, Him talking in the crib as a baby, creating birds from clay, miracles as a child, Putting simon in his place at the cross as his spirit returns to heaven, Saying how peter, james and john were corrupted by paul and that the other apostles knew the true faith, The long blonde hair, Priests and men should have many wives, women must only have one husband, the hebrew bible should be ignored as corrupted. That The jews wanted to kill Christ because he told them there scripture and traditions were wrong)

[tookie]

So second Peter was written before the gospel of Thomas? That’s interesting