Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "What Did Gnostic Christians Believe?" video.

  1. Vain glories! Gnosticism is often defined as a "cult" of "secret knowledge" or to quote, "These gospels emphasize knowledge that initiates have and others do not." http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/gnosticism.htm
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  2. Gnostic Christians believed that if they could (within theology) create a son of Jehovah, they would overshadow the Jews, whose story it was that they were Jehovah's chosen few. Religion always was based on "Out with the old story, and in with the new story." From the book, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” by Edward Gibbon, (Coyright 1963, by Frank C. Bourne … comes the following ... The Gnostics blended with the faith of Christ many sublime but obscure tenets, which they derived from oriental philosophy, and even from the religion of Zoroaster, concerning the eternity of matter, the existence of the two principles, and the mysterious hierarchy of the invisible world. As soon as they launched out into the vast abyss, they delivered themselves to the guidance of disordered imagination; and as the paths of error are various and infinite, the Gnostics were imperceptibly divided into more than fifty particular sects, of whom the most celebrated appear to have been the Basilidians, the Valentinians, the Marcionites, and, in a still later period, the Manichaeaens.
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