gnostic in A Sentence

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Lastly, Codex Sinaiticus(along with Codex Vaticanus), exhibits clear Gnostic influence.

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These Gnostic gospels are often pointed to as supposed"lost books of the Bible.".

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What matters to the Gnostic revolutionary is that his scheme intends a worthy outcome;

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For example, the Gospel of Judas was written by the Gnostic sect, around 130-170 A. D.

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Therefore, as he wrote, the Gnostic seeks to freeze“history into an everlasting final realm on this earth.”.

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In particular, it refers to the illuminative, mystical sort of wisdom that a Gnostic or Sufi might attain.

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What Voegelin called“the Gnostic personality” has great difficulty accepting that the impermanence of temporal existence is inherent in its nature.

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He sometimes described this urge to create heaven on earth by political means as“Gnostic,” especially in what remains his most popular work, The New Science of Politics.

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Henri-Charles Puech describes the Greek perception of time as cyclical, Christian time as unilinear, and Gnostic time as a broken line that shatters other perceptions into bits.

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The continuing influence of Gnostic philosophy, which held that everything spiritual was good whereas everything physical, such as our bodies, was intrinsically evil, was essentially responsible for their confusion regarding their own resurrection.

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The Gnostic gospels can be a good source for the study of early Christian heresies, but they should be rejected outright as not belonging in the Bible and not representing the genuine Christian faith.

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While a couple of the Gnostic gospels mention Jesus having a close relationship with Mary Magdalene, none of them specifically states that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, or had any romantic involvement with her.

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Bahira(Arabic: بحيرى‎, Classical Syriac: ܒܚܝܪܐ‎), or Sergius the Monk to the Latin West, was an Arab Ebionite, Nestorian or possibly Gnostic Nasorean monk who, according to Islamic tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a prophet.

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An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.

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