As you can see, on the screen, the title of our lesson is the
doctrines of gnosticism. And the question is, what does
that mean? What is the doctrines or what
are the doctrines of gnosticism? And why does it matter as an
introductory text? I want to invite you to a
passage found in the book of Jude and Jude only has one
chapter, but beginning in verse 3, beloved while I was very
diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation.
I found it necessary to write to you exhorting, you to contend
earnestly, for the faith, which was once for all delivered to
the Saints for certain man have crept.
In unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this
condemnation. Ungodly men who turn the grace
of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our
Lord Jesus Christ. But I want to remind you though,
you once knew this at the Lord having I saved the people out of
the land of Egypt, afterward, destroyed, those who did not
believe in this lesson. Today, I want to examine the
doctrines of gnosticism as touted in the popular media.
And you might remember these phrases or know what I'm talking
about. I'm talking about The DaVinci
Code and also the doctrine or the Gospel of Judas and others
and we want to do this so that we might all understand what
gnosticism. And how the New Testament deals
with those doctrines and why popular culture gets it wrong.
Well, first of all, about the text before us, this passage
along with several others. In the New Testament, allude to
the doctrines and practices of a religion.
Today that is commonly referred to as gnosticism, but what is
it? And what's the word actually?
Even me, the word gnosticism comes from a Greek word gnosis
and it Literally means knowledge.
Now, gnostics were concerned with knowledge because they
believed that salvation was predicated upon obtaining
special Enlightenment for or through their Mysteries.
Now gnosticism did not originate with Christianity, in fact it
had its origins in paganism and it was primarily pantheistic,
meaning many gods, you know, paganism.
Was pantheistic because they observed or recognized, many
different or multiple gods on the flip side.
For example, a religion that is monotheistic is a religion that
recognizes only one God. And that's all of us.
Today, Christians, we recognize one, God.
So gnosticism was pantheistic, meaning many gods, but there's
so much more and I'll get back to that in just a little bit.
As Christianity though, expanded into the Gentile world.
Gnostics were quick to fuse the two religions together.
Added to that was modern-day philosophy.
And the idea was this, they emphasize personal or spiritual
knowledge over Orthodox or traditional teachings.
I want to notice a definition of very long, wordy definition or
description of gnosticism and we're not going to read the
whole thing because it is very, very worthy.
I want to highlight a couple of things though, to understand
what gnosticism is I want. To just say this as a general
principle of this definition, it is a collective name.
Gnosticism is for a large number of greatly varying pantheistic
idealistic sex borrowing the phraseology and some of the
tenants of the chief religions of the day and especially of
Christianity, held matter to be a deterioration of Spirit and
the whole universe. A Privation of the deity.
Now, with philosophy, added all of this.
These things were fused together and what is known as or referred
to as gnosticism. Now, I got to say in the past.
In the past, perhaps the study of the subject of gnosticism
would be extremely dry. And I got to tell you, this is a
challenge for me. Because we're going to talk
about something that is and can be very dry.
I don't want it to be boring. I don't want it to be dry but
also on the very same subject, we look at this idea and we want
it to be interesting to understand what it is and really
how some of these beliefs have trickled over into our society.
For example, there are people for example, that perhaps
believe certain things that were taught under the religion of
gnosticism. That wouldn't Consider
themselves to be Gnostic but these are things that have and
theories that have drifted over. Well, I'll tell you a dry
subject like this was revived when the recently released
ancient documents and popular works of fiction became in our
society. One of which is The DaVinci Code
Now The DaVinci Code is a popular work that presumes
certain Gnostic teachings to be true.
Now and basis the fictional story upon these things.
In fact, you also remember something else.
You remember this, the Gospel of Judas and you heard of that the
Gospel of Judas, Why is it important?
Why do we have to pay attention to that?
And why does it matter? Why does it matter today?
That we noticed, what the Gospel of Judas actually was, and why
it's wrong, or The DaVinci Code or gnosticism.
Why is it important? I'll tell you why, it's because
of people's responses to varying interpretations of things, or
varying accounts of things and they conflict each other.
So people do one of two things. Number one, people, They say
sometimes when there's all kinds of varying opinions so just pick
the one you want. And that's good enough.
And everything is okay because there's all different opinions,
just choose the one that you want.
That's number one, number two, people say because there's a
conflict and there's a division, or a conflict between two things
like the word of God and things, like the Gospel of Judas and
other Gnostic Gospels that people say.
You know what? You can't know what's, right?
Nothing is reliable. Throw it all out.
You can't know what's true. You know, I think that that kind
of philosophy trickles over to people today years and years
ago. There was a softball coach that
I knew and I was talking to him about church and he said, you
know, I mean I believe in God but I am against organized
religion and I said, why is that he said because there's so many
differing opinions. It's impossible to know what's
right? Well, I know that there's
various opinions about a lot of things, but when you talk about
the word of God and you talk about what God wants, there's
only one standard. So that's what we want to
emphasize. We want to notice what these
Things were in gnosticism number one gnosticism and I told you
we'd get back to this gnosticism is pantheism now that's a fancy
word one of the definitions of pantheism and we're going to
notice this from a two-fold perspective, one of the
definitions of this is a doctrine that identifies god
with the universe. Sound familiar, it identifies
god with the universe or regards the universe as a manifestation
of God. In other words, God is not a
person. God is not someone that can be
reached. You know, brother Wade, prayed
to God on our behalf, we prayed together, we all said, amen, and
agreement with that prayer talking about reaching God
specifically, brother. Darren prayed to God
specifically, because, you know why, God can be reached, he is
our heavenly father and when the Bible talks about Abba, Father,
it refers to God himself. But the relationship that we
also have with him. Wouldn't it be awful?
If you could not reach the Creator and have a relationship
with him, you know, Albert Einstein.
One of the most brilliant men that ever lived, you know, he
said he didn't buy into evolution by the way, never did
what Einstein said is the idea of creation or the world, or the
universe that exists was the result of cause and effect.
So what we live in is the effect and if there's the effect there
has to have a cause and if there has to have a cause it's got to
be God, it's got to be a higher power.
Albert, Einstein raised in a home of Judaism believed in the
god of Judaism. At one point in time, and said
there had to be a God, no problem at all.
You know what happened to Albert.
Einstein as brilliant as he was, I'll tell you what happened.
He started looking out at all. The things that happen in the
world. And he couldn't put together the
idea in his mind that if God were so good and God were so
great. Then why does he allow bad
things to happen to good people? Albert, Einstein couldn't wrap
His Brilliant mind around that. So you know what he said, he
said this, oh, they're still a God but he cannot be reached.
He cannot be touched. We don't really have a
relationship with him. It is just a cosmic mind that
spoke everything into it. Existence know, God can be
reached now. What about this right here?
What about the universe? We give you two examples, okay?
When I had cancer, you know what people said to me that I come in
contact with? They would say this all the
time. You're in my prayers people.
I did business with people that I associated with members, of
the Lord's Church, Christians would say I'm praying for you.
You're in my prayers. Then there were other people
that said this, I'll keep a good thought out for you.
You know, why? It's the principal just like
this just like gnosticism if I have enough good thoughts going
on about me in the universe and I turn it over to the universe.
Then guess what? Good will happen.
That's not the god that we serve, but understand this.
It is pantheistic in nature. Gnosticism is first perspective,
is that That it regards the universe as the manifestation of
God and we can't reach him personally.
But number two, it's a worship that admits are tolerates all
God's plural e. And by the way, interesting
about this gnosticism teaches that there are multiple gods,
small G, multiple gods in existence and they are called
Ian's. And what is that?
These gods in these Ian's formed a hierarchy of deities.
And from that all things happened, the higher order of
deities were thought of to be a spiritual and the lower were
thought up to be physical. And it just easier to open up
the word of God and say in the beginning, God created the
heavens and the Earth and leave it at that.
Would it be easier? Instead of having a concept of
believing in a concept that there's a hierarchy of gods that
created everything and all the good stuff was paid for by the
or created by the spiritual and all the bad things were created
by the physical. It's the doctrines of gnosticism
in that. Now, here's the problem to the
spiritual. They believed is good.
And the physical is inherently evil, that distinction,
ultimately affected the practices of those who believed
in gnosticism. But the Bible teaches, there's
only one God, let me give you some Bible for that.
Several passages of scripture. First, we begin in Deuteronomy
chapter 6 and verse 4, where the Bible says.
Hear o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord.
That's it right there. How many just one?
What else it's going to the New Testament in John chapter 17 and
verse 3. And this is eternal life that
they may know you. The only true God and Jesus
Christ whom you have sent. Here's another passage the words
of the Apostle Paul in First Corinthians chapter, 8, verses
five and six for even if there are so called God's whether in
heaven or on Earth, Earth or there are many gods and many
lords yet for us. There's one God, the father of
whom are all things, and we for him and one, Lord Jesus Christ
through whom are all things. And through whom we live, so
there is one God. One final passage though, in
Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 6, Paul said this.
He said, one God and Father of all, who is above all and
through all and in you all. So gnosticism is pantheism which
believes that God is nothing more than the manifestation of
the universe and the forces around us, and you can't contact
him directly at all. Number two, it is the
recognition of multiple Ian's or multiple gods.
Therefore, it is not One God that we serve.
But all of these others are enforce, the word of God says
though there's only one God. Number two, another reason why
gnosticism is false teaching and false Doctrine is because
gnosticism denies the deity and Humanity of Jesus Christ.
You know, part of the teaching of gnosticism is that Jesus
Christ was a created being And by the way, there are religious
affiliations today, that believe that Jesus was created.
Jesus was not created. In fact, the Bible says that in
the beginning, Jesus was there. And in Genesis chapter 1 and
verse 26, when it says, let us make man in our image, that
means this when God created everything, he also did.
So at the very same time with Jesus Christ, and the Holy
Spirit and they were all there at the very beginning, in other
words, all things were created by them.
We have one God that we serve Serve.
But Jesus Christ was not created.
He was there in the beginning. Somebody asked me one time.
Well, when was what happened before the beginning.
Let's not get too smart, doesn't matter in the beginning, that's
it. In the beginning, that means
that whatever happened before the beginning.
I don't know what happened before Genesis 1:1, I don't
care. All I know is, Jesus has always
existed. He was not created but the
doctrine of gnosticism denied, the deity of Jesus Christ.
And also at the same time, the humanity of Jesus Christ.
Now, some gnostics even believe that Jesus Christ came and to
set man on the path of Enlightenment.
And I'll tell you something, I appreciated the songs and some
of the songs. We sung this morning, talking
about Jesus Christ, being risen talking about the things that
Jesus Christ has done. I'm so grateful for that, I know
you're grateful for that. These are wonderful words of
praise and honor to the Lord for them.
Okay. gnosticism didn't believe in any of that, they believed
that Jesus was really a person created and he came to this
earth to put man on a path of Enlightenment, and that's why he
came Now, the enlightenment was this, by the way, to put man on
a different path. That was separate and, and
separate and different from the god of the Old Testament.
And that's why Jesus came. And by the way, this is affirmed
in The DaVinci Code, it is stated and I will read in the in
that book that it wasn't until the time of Constantine that
Jesus Christ was set forth as divine.
We know that to be false, we know that not to be true
gnostics. Also denied, the humanity of
Jesus Christ, but the Bible teaches the Divinity of Jesus.
In John chapter 1 and verse 1 would be a scathing rebuke of
gnosticism notice. This right here.
Jesus was both Divine and human. Incidentally. if Jesus were not
human, he could not have been the sacrificial lamb to pay the
price, the blood sacrifice the price for the sins of the world.
Not created in the beginning. I didn't make that up in John
chapter 1 beginning in verse 1. It said in the beginning was the
word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, he was in
the beginning with God. All things were made through him
and without him nothing was made, that was made in verse 14
of John chapter 1. It says, and the word became
flesh and dwelt among among us and we beheld, his glory, the
glory, as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and
truth, who's that as Jesus Christ, the word Was in the
beginning. The Word was God.
Meaning deity, the word became flesh and dwelt Among Us.
Meaning he was fully human. This was a doctrine that the
gnostics would not have tolerated.
Notice more, though, Colossians chapter 2 and verse 9, for in
him, dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily.
That's Jesus Christ. Remember this to, in order for
Jesus Christ fulfilling prophecy, he had to be the Son
of God and he also had to be the son of David now that shows the
fleshly lineage of Jesus Christ and he was the only one And by
the way, that could have been the seed of David and also be
the Son of God, the only one now, there were many that could
be fall into the category of the seed of David or the son of
David, but nobody else could be the son of David and also be the
Son of God. It's the idea of this is the
same thing as saying Jesus is the son of God, meaning fully
Divine, and Son of Man, meaningful human.
That was our Messiah and in him, dwells all the fullness of the
Ahead bodily. Another passage in Titus Chapter
2 and verse 13. Looking for the Blessed, hope
and glorious appearing of our great God.
And our Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is divine.
He is also human again. Son of man.
In first, John chapter 4 and verse 2.
By this, you know, the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses
Jesus Christ is come in. The flesh is of God.
Now, interesting, this is one test of Fellowship, one test of
Fellowship. We read that again by this, you
know, the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus
Christ is come in, the flesh is of God.
And every spirit, that does not confess, that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh, he is not of God, and this is the spirit of
the Eddie. Christ, which you have heard was
coming and is now already in the world.
This is one test of Fellowship, not all one.
If a person rejects that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, he's
not of God, if a person teaches against that, guess what?
It's the Antichrist. The spirit of the Antichrist.
Jesus did come in the flesh. Jesus Christ was and is deity.
Here's another one. Gnosticism stresses knowledge as
the path to Salvation. Now what kind of knowledge we
talking about? By the way, you have to have
knowledge, I have to have knowledge.
Anytime that you study something and learn something you gain
knowledge. When we pray to God, we ask God
for wisdom and gives it liberally but we have to study
for knowledge. So there's nothing wrong with
knowledge. It's not what I'm saying.
What gnosticism top though, is it stressed knowledge, as a path
to Salvation, what kind of knowledge here it is.
Gnosticism believed. That there was one special
secret knowledge that could lead a person to Salvation this
knowledge consisted of their pantheism that we already
noticed and also the condemnation of the physical,
some gnostics held that, there was no such thing as Sin since
all flesh is sinful and the only sin is ignorance of their
special knowledge. Now the Bible teaches that
knowledge isn't special oil. Why would you teach a doctrine
that says knowledge is special and only a few can get it.
If Jesus died for the sins of the world and he did and those
things are revealed to us in the gospel of the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus. Why would only a select few
understand the specific special knowledge that a person had to
know to be saved In fact, you know, the Bible teaches against
that, you know, I love this in the book of First John, the word
no. now there's varying definitions about the word no in
the English language, but this word comes from a Greek word
that is found 26 times in the book of First John and it means
to know for certain It means to know in the here and now it
means to know right now for certain 26 x, that is found.
Let's notice a few of those passages in first, John chapter
2 and verse 3. Now, by this, we know, That we
know him. I think that's pretty
encouraging, don't you? Now, by this, we know, That's to
know for certain that we know him.
That means have a relationship with There's a lot of folks that
would love to have a relationship with God.
Notice what John said by this, you know, for certain that you
have a relationship with him. If you do want, if you keep his
Commandments. Anybody can understand that
first John, chapter 2 and verse 21.
I have not written to you, because you do not know the
truth. But because, you know, it then
sell, like, special knowledge to me.
Sounds like something we can all understand.
And that is the No Lie. Is of the truth.
Hears, another passage these things.
I have written to you, who believe in the name of the son
of God, that you may know that you have eternal life and that
you may continue to believe in the name of the son of God.
Have to make this point though, okay.
This does not mean by audacity or irreverence, or it doesn't
mean that because we feel as though we have earned it, we
have salvation, that's not what that means.
And it doesn't mean once saved always saved.
I saved it doesn't mean that either and it doesn't mean that
a person cannot fall from grace, it doesn't mean that either.
What it's saying is we can have an assurance that we have
eternal life and continue in that.
And we've already noticed, John said, if you keep his
Commandments, Then sound like, special sounds like anybody can
understand. It sounds like great stuff to
me, 1st. Timothy 6 and 20 though.
Paul said oh Timothy guard, what is committed to your trust?
Avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of
what is falsely called knowledge sometimes especially
institutions of Higher Learning There's a lot of people that
went to explain away the basic Foundation of Christianity and
explain away with the word of God says and things that we can
easily understand and explain it away all based upon what that
which is falsely called knowledge.
In other words, a greater Enlightenment, you know, there's
another Point here I want to make and I would be very brief
about this one because we need to get to The DaVinci Code.
So I want to talk about this one very briefly and that is that
gnosticism draws a false distinction between the physical
and the spiritual. Now, we have seen the
distinction made in their Doctrine regarding how the
physical things were created and so forth.
But they continued such distinctions on a practical
level in two schools of thought. Number one, there were the
ascetics and the Aesthetics practiced thorough denial of the
physical body. They believe that to overcome
sinfulness of the physical state, you had to refuse
yourself of any pleasure whatsoever.
In other words, the physical is corrupt and it's rotten.
So the only way to have a strong hold over, that is to deny every
bit of things in life that are pleasing to the physical.
And I'm not just talking about Sin, I'm talking about anything
beating the body up on the other hand.
There were the antinomian sense and they believed that since the
flesh was sinful, and the spirit was wholly, that nothing could
be done in the flesh to corrupt the spirits.
You know what they said, do anything you want.
Indulge in everything doesn't really matter.
This said, deny yourself of all physical enjoyment.
This said it doesn't really make any difference.
Do whatever you want to, because there's nothing really you can
do and it doesn't really matter and give in and indulge in all
sorts of fleshly Delights in carnal appetites.
But you know, folks really briefly the Bible refute to both
of these. The former is refuted in
Colossians 2 verses 16 through 23 and the latter is refute as
refuted in first John. Second Peter.
And also Jude. All right?
What about this? What about The DaVinci Code?
The Gospel of Judas. And all the others.
First of all, understand The DaVinci Code is nothing more
than a work of fiction. It is not true, the premise, by
the way, I haven't seen the movie.
These are excerpts from the book.
I haven't seen the movie, but there is a movie.
Maybe you've seen the movie, I don't know what the movie says,
but this is what the book. Says, the major premise of the
book was this That Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and
they had children. And you know, that violates
everything we read about the word of God.
But interestingly, in The DaVinci Code in the book, these
children quote-unquote were purrs, are preserved today by a
secret society, known as The Priory of Sion.
And by the way, the Priory of Sion is a fraternal organization
that was put together by a man by the name of Pierre plantard
in 1956. Do you know what he said?
He said at one point in time, he said that he had evidence
geological evidence that he was a direct descendant of Jesus
Christ. And by the way, you can Google
it, I did it this morning. Don't do it.
Now, do it later on your phone. I Googled it this morning and it
said exactly the point I'm going to make right now.
It was an elaborate hoax that he recanted and admitted was a lie
before he died in the year 2000. And he did it in front of a
French Court, this man, Pierre plantard.
Now, here's the problem, he's dead. but many claim today that
this fraternal organization still exists, it is supported by
gnosticism and in the book The DaVinci Code Dan Brown was the
author and he said, he went on record as saying that he
believes all of. This is true based upon a
passage found in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip Okay, I'm going
to, I'm going to put on the screen, the exact passage that
has been written down as in part of the Gnostic Gospels.
One of which is the Gospel of Philip.
This is the actual passage the companion of the savior is Mary
Magdalene but Christ loved her more than all the disciples and
used to kiss her often, the rest of the disciples were offended.
They said to him, why do you love her more than all of us?
The Savior and Jordan said to them, why do I not love you as I
love her. As false teaching, folks.
That's a lie. These writings are not in the
New Testament. They're not.
It's one of those Gnostic texts that is not reliable, and we
cannot use it as a reliable source of History.
Me give you another one. How about this?
The Gospel of Thomas a Gnostic Gospel.
Now I'm going to tell you I'm gonna tell you what the Gnostic
Gospel of Thomas taught. And by the way, this is the
proof of what I said. I don't know about 15-20 minutes
ago. Okay, in this Gnostic Gospel it
says this this would be terrible.
Why would you believe this? Jesus was not Our Redeemer.
He was only a revealer. We sang again, we sang about
Jesus being Our Redeemer. They believe that Jesus was not
resurrected in fact they didn't care about the resurrection.
What does the Bible say about that?
If Jesus was not raised, we are all men most miserable.
Be terrible way to believe by the way.
This taught that Christianity is all about self-discovery, and
self-revelation. He ever known somebody that's on
some sort of a quest, some sort of a quest for self-discovery.
Self Revelation. Oh, I got it.
People fall in that trap today, don't they?
By the way, the message here is really anti-women.
It really is because the gnostics had an agenda.
They didn't care about the resurrection.
As I've said they only cared about the Lord's secret
knowledge followed this. Now, his secret knowledge that
he was imparting and that message was for those who were
smart enough to get it and the only I'm smart enough to get.
It was a man. Come on.
Anti-women Gospel of Thomas, it's go to another one.
How about this one? But the Gospel of Judas Now, the
Gospel of Judas and the rest of the NOG hammadi.
Documents goes along with the teachings of gnosticism and not
the Bible. But first of all, what is a
nagpur mati document? They were a collection of
Gnostic texts, discovered near the upper Egyptian town of naga,
hamadi in the year, 1945, and all of these documents.
By the way, the Gospel of Judas and all the other non commodity
documents, all they do is, they don't support Christianity.
They don't support what God wants they support.
Not Gnostic teachings that's it. They don't fall in line with the
Bible at all. Now, in the Gospel of Judas are
the Gnostic Works claiming that Jesus entrusted to Judas,
special knowledge regarding his death.
I heard somebody talking about this one time and I don't know
if they really understood what was actually supposedly
described in the Gospel of Judas.
But really the whole deal was he was talking about.
The idea was to just really wasn't that bad of a guy.
In fact, he was in there. He was in cahoots with the Lord.
The Lord was in cahoots with him and so forth.
No, the word of God says that Judas by transgression fell.
The Bible says he was the betrayer, he sold the Lord for
30 pieces. Of silver when it was done.
The Bible says he hung himself his bowels gushed out, and then
it said he went to his own place.
You know what that means. It means he wasn't saved.
But the Gospel of Judas has all this other stuff.
Once again, it goes along with gnosticism not the Bible.
And also, by the way, Gnostic texts were dated in the second
half of the second century or later.
Now, Common Sense would tell us that cannot be reliable, the
gospels of Matthew Mark. Luke and John are reliable.
They're unreliable because they're in the inspired word of
God, but they're also reliable because they were written close
to the time that the events actually happened, all right?
So you might be wondering where did these Gnostic texts come
from? And why do they exist?
I think it's very simple. Any time you have something?
That is valuable, there is bound to be a counterfeit.
I'm not an expert on paintings but you can go to some, I don't
know, Rembrandt. Picasso.
I wouldn't know what I want. No either one of those.
Their works. But some people know.
But there are counterfeits that are cheap knockoffs if you will
of those very same things and any time you have something that
is extremely valuable and you want to bring in your own
agenda, then the counterfeit scum and that's exactly what
these Gnostic Gospels were they were merely texts.
That supported a counterfeit gospel or counterfeit teaching
and they were said to be written by an apostle or a disciple for
advancing their Gnostic views. And I'll tell you, if that's not
the perfect definition of a heretic, I don't know what it
is. Because a heretic is somebody
that does this, a heretic has knowledge of truth.
But instead of obeying truth or teaching truth, they teach
something that is erroneous on purpose or false.
All for the offer, the idea of drawing a party or a faction
under themself when they do that and make that choice, the Bible
calls them a heretic. I'm going to tell you something,
the Gnostic Gospels that knocks not the Gnostic texts are
counterfeit. They are false, they are lives.
So in conclusion, The doctrines of gnosticism are clearly
non-Christian. They deny the Divinity and
Humanity of Jesus Christ. They are non-Christian in their
religious practices too. Those who support these
doctrines in modern day culture, our intent upon destroying
Christianity, but I'm going to tell you right now, they can't
get it done. They cannot destroy
Christianity. They can't destroy Christianity.
In your heart. You know what the truth is?
So what are we going to do? What are we going to do?
What does the Bible say about that?
Because sometimes people say, well, what about these other
books that they found other writings that they found what
about them? Galatians 1.
Beginning in verse 6. I Marvel that you are turning
away. So soon from him who called you
into the grace of Christ to a different gospel, which is not
another, but there are some who trouble you and would want to
pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that, which we have
preached to you, let him be accursed as we said before.
So, say I now again, if anyone preaches, any other gospel to
you than what you have received, let him be.
Be accursed. So let me just say, finally.
We have the inspired written, word of God.
It's the original. If anything has ever taught,
please get this. That violates the standard the
scripture, it's counterfeit, every time.
We don't have to go out and search after all the different
beliefs in the world focused on the original.
Like, my father used to preach focus on the original.
It automatically eliminates the counterfeits and gnosticism is
false Doctrine. It is counterfeit.
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