Preface, The Gnostics: classic Christian wheat or tares?
THE GNOSTIC-PATRIPASSIAN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HOLY SCRIPTURES A book about: Gnostic-Patripassian Christians, who they were, their school of thought, the legacy they left behind and the conspiracies they were engaged in. The Gnostics: classic Christian wheat or tares? Matthew 13:24Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.” From the Wikipedia about Gnosticism and Gnostic-Christian sources (Greek: γνῶσις gnōsis, knowledge) refers to a diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect god, the demiurge, who is frequently identified with the Abrahamic God. The demiurge may be depicted as an embodiment of evil, or in other instances as...