First Gnostic writers taught that there was one supreme godhead, called the Monad. This god was distant from mortals. Eventually a number of semi-divine beings emerged from the monad, known as Aeons.
The Gnostics, with their various systems, taught that the creator of the material world (therefore the God of the Old Testament) was in fact an inferior and malevolent god, the abortive offspring ...
One such "believer" so-called quoted in the article called himself a "Gnostic Christian." He said, "I don't need someone to interpret God for me . . ." For him, church was not for instruction, much ...
155 A.D. "Those Gnostics, therefore ... so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word; so did the latter, by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should ...