There are two [deceptions] that serve Lucifer's purpose.
The first is to cast doubt on God's Word,
to twist and change it to mean something entirely different
from what God originally intended.
The second tactic is to convince us that we have the right,
the ability, and the power within us to become like God.
Lucifer knows very well that this is no more possible
for us than it was for him...[p 13]
G N O S T I C I S M
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”
[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 "
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