A PROMINENT HERETICAL MOVEMENT OF
THE
2ND-CENTURY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
PARTLY OF PRE-CHRISTIAN ORIGIN
THE GNOSTIC DOCTRINE TEACHES THAT THE WORLD
WAS CREATED AND RULED BY A LESSER DIVINITY
CALLED THE DEMIURGE AND THAT
CHRIST WAS AN EMISSARY
OF THIS SUPREME DIVINE BEING.
ACCORDING TO THE GNOSTIC DOCTRINE,
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE [GNOSIS] ALONE
REDEEMS THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Early on, the young, predominantly-Literalist Church
condemned Gnosticism as heresy.
Few prominent Church figures were Gnostics.
There was never any serious, cohesive Gnostic movement in
the early Church.
Gnostics cared little for organisational matters
and were pretty much left out of the Church hierarchy.
Importantly they denied the humanity and physicality
of Jesus Christ by asserting his death had no
true
metaphysical or salvation effect.
Overall, historically speaking, Gnosticism was often
relegated to the fringes of Christianity.
Gnostics believe that...The Ascended Master Jesus, however, is NOT God,
but merely a “ray” of the “Great Central Sun, which is God”
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[Milanovichp, Norma, We
The Arcturians:
A True
Experience, 1990, p71]
[A channelled book]
In other
words, according to John MacArthur
"They
believe their Ascended Master Jesus
is inferior to
the Sun God who is Lucifer,
which means
the Light or Shining One"
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"The Ascended
Master Jesus is clearly NOT Jesus
Christ
but another Jesus, a fallen
angel who preaches another gospel,
of which we have
been warned in the bible "
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