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.
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Gnostics
believe that...The Ascended Master Jesus,
however, is
not God, but merely a “ray” of the
“Great
Central Sun, which is God”
[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"
"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 "
“But though
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any
other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,let him
be accursed.”
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