What True Gnostics DO NOT Believe True Gnostics should not be confused with the false Gnostics of ages past, as represented by the codices and tractates discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. Neither are we representative of those Gnostics which early church fathers argued against in their efforts to establish a single church orthodoxy with its attendant ecclesiastical authority. True Gnostics: • do not believe in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. True Gnostics are not Christians. • do not accept or believe in the Bible. • do not believe in original sin. • do not believe that mankind is inherently evil. • do not believe in the blood atonement of Jesus Christ, because the doctrine of blood atonement presents a God who demands the human sacrifice of an innocent man, and any God who demands murder to appease justice is unworthy of worship or adoration. • do not believe in hell or final judgment, because the doctrines of hell and eternal torment are immoral beliefs, and the doctrine of final judgment perverts and distorts mercy, compassion and forgiveness. • do not believe in Jehovah. However, true Gnostics do accept that the biblical Jehovah is a demiurge, an evil monster who would present himself as God in order to confuse mankind with regard to what is truly right and wrong. • do not believe in a devil which leads people into sin. Humankind has produced enough devils of its own without having to create the fictional variety in order to explain the evil that people do against each other. We are accountable to God for our acts of inhumanity towards each other. There is no devil to bring to account.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:43:25 +0000
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