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<blockquote data-quote="The Beast1" data-source="post: 1421791" data-attributes="member: 4882"><p>My complaint with his thesis is that he fails to observe that gnostic thought wasn't centralised like Catholic orthodoxy. He's treating gnosticism as a singular entity. Gnosticism encompassed a wide ranging pantheon of thought from various groups around the roman world. To attack them on a singular basis like this ruins his entire argument.</p><p></p><p>While some gnostic texts are clearly forgeries there are others that aren't. My best example is the Book of Enoch and some other apocryphal texts </p><p></p><p>The truth is, to read these documents requires a degree of spiritual discernment that isn't present on the common christian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Beast1, post: 1421791, member: 4882"] My complaint with his thesis is that he fails to observe that gnostic thought wasn't centralised like Catholic orthodoxy. He's treating gnosticism as a singular entity. Gnosticism encompassed a wide ranging pantheon of thought from various groups around the roman world. To attack them on a singular basis like this ruins his entire argument. While some gnostic texts are clearly forgeries there are others that aren't. My best example is the Book of Enoch and some other apocryphal texts The truth is, to read these documents requires a degree of spiritual discernment that isn't present on the common christian. [/QUOTE]
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