Gnostic

The true Gnostics, it's not really like undergraduates and graduates, because some of you could be Gnostics.

But there is no evidence that Gnostics were engaged in anything of the kind.

The most learned of the fathers, by a very singular condescension, have imprudently admitted the sophistry of the Gnostics.

Many of these groups were Gnostics, followers of the same strain of early Christianity reflected in the Judas gospel.

Early as well as subsequent Gnostics are the dissidents within Christianity.

The Gnostics were mystics who were tired of, if not "beyond" , the simplicity of the Gospel. They wanted the "deeper" things.

Doing so required the guidance of a teacher, and that, according to the Gnostics, was Christ's role.

The Judas gospel vividly reflects the struggle waged long ago between the Gnostics and the hierarchical church.

To explain the origin of the material universe, the Gnostics developed a complicated mythology.

Here, it is clear why he blames Gnostics, since he embraced an "essential Christianity" substantially identical with Catholicism.

Early Gnostics, and Gnostics of all kinds, insist that individuals must seek direct inner spiritual realization (gnosis).

Gnostics see the Demiurge as the God of the Old Testament, with his strict rules and chains that bind the people of the Earth.

Gnostics often practiced excessive asceticism, because they believed that they were thus liberated by the spirit.

It contains five poems inspired by Gnosticism and Gnostics writings, e. g. Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi documents.

Moreover, in some measure the Gnostics were the first theologians, and their systems prompted the systemization of early Christian thought.

gnostics believe that sophia and the father god ( not the demiurge ) sent yeshua to right this wrong